| Abate | v. subside or moderate. (Rather than waiting leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.) |
| Abscond | v. depart secretly and hide.( The teller who absconded with the bonds went uncaptured until someone recognized him from his photograph on America's Most Wanted.) |
| Abstemious | adj. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. (Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemiousdiet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.) |
| Adulterate | v. make inpure by adding inferior or tainted substances.( It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer; when consumers learned that Beechnut had adulterated its apple juiceby mixing the juice with water, they protested vigorously. adulteration, n.) |
| Aggregate | v. gather; accumulate.( Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time. also adj. aggregation, n.) |
| Ameliorate | v. improve.( Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums.) |
| Anomalous | adj. abnormal; irregular.( She was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to apprive procedures that she despised.) |
| Apathy | n. lack of caring; indifference.( A firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote. apathetic, adj.) |
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