- Aberrant: deviating from normal or correct.
- Abscond: to leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law.
- Advocate: to speak, plead, or argue for a cause, or in another’s behalf. (n) -- one who advocates.
- Aggrandize: to make greater, to increase, thus, to exaggerate.
- Amalgamate: to unite or mix. (n) -- amalgamation.
- Ambiguous: vague; subject to more than one interpretation
- Ambrosial: extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)
- Anachronism: a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj: anachronistic)
- Anomalous: peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly)
- Antediluvian: ancient; outmoded; (literally, before the flood)
- Antipathy: hostility toward, objection, or aversion to
- Arbitrate: to settle a dispute by impulse (n: arbitration)
- Assuage: to make less severe; to appease or satisfy
- Attenuate: weaken (adj: attenuated)
- Audacious: extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity)
GREs A