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abstract: 1.thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances 2.expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed
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acclaim: -verb 1. welcome or applaud enthusiastically; praise publicly -noun 2. applause; welcome; public praise
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acquiesce: -verb (used without object), -esced, -escâ‹…ing. to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan
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adamant: -adjective 1. utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc. 2. too hard to cut, break, or pierce -noun 3. any impenetrably or unyielding hard substance
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adversary: -noun a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe. a person, group, etc., that is an opponent in a contest; contestant.
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advocate: -verb (used with object) 1. to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly -noun 2. a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.
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aesthetic: -adjective pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. -noun 4. a philosophical theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place
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alleviate: -verb 1. make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate
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aloof: -adverb at a distance, esp. in feeling or interest; apart 2. reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested
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altercation: -noun a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy
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altruistic: -adjective unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others. Animal Behavior. of or pertaining to behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind, often its close relatives
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ambiguous: -adjective open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal Linguistics. (of an expression) exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions
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ambivalent: -noun uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
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ameliorate: -verb 1. to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate
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amiable: -adjective having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable friendly; sociable: an amiable greeting; an amiable gathering.
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amorphous: -adjective Shapeless Ill-organized; unclassifiable
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anarchist: -noun a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism. a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.