| Term | Definition |
|---|
| warrant | to justify, to give good reason for |
| absolve | to free from guilt or blame, to pardon |
| acquit | to declare not guilty of a crime |
| adroit | skillful, clever, dexterous |
| affront | insult, an act of disrespect |
| aggregate | a sum, mass, or assemblage, or parts |
| alloy | a mixture, especially of metals |
| amorphous | shapeless, without a specific form |
| ample | plentiful large |
| anachoronism | involving an error in chronology, in which something from one period of time is put into a different one |
| annual | to cancel an agreement or contract, especially a marriage |
| antipathy | dislike, or natural aversion |
| antiseptic | either free of germs, or killing germs |
| ascribe | to attribute; to assign or credit as the cause or author of something |
| assent | agreement |
| asset | a useful and desirable thing |
| auspicious | favorable, promising success |
| axis | the line about which a rotating body turns; the central line of symmetry in a figure |
| babble | to talk excessively without meaning |
| banish | to expel, kick out, exile |
| barbarity | brutal, cruel actions |
| bibliography | a lists of books or written materials which have been referred to in a text |
| blatant | obvious in a bad way, brazen, flagrant |
| blight | something that deteriorates or ruins things, especially the disease that kills plants |
| boisterous | rough and noisy, clamorous |
| bombard | to attack by throwing things, especially bombs |
| bombastic | pompous, using big words and gestures to show off in a speech |
| breadth | width; freedom from narrowness |
| bungle | to do something clumsily, to mess something up, to both |
| burgeon | to grow or develop quickly, to flourish |
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