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Term Definition
abase To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
abbess The lady superior of a nunnery.
abbey The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
abbot The superior of a community of monks.
abdicate To give up (royal power or the like).
abdomen In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.
abdominal Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
abduction A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
abed In bed; on a bed.
aberration Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
abet To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
abeyance A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
abhorrence The act of detesting extremely.
abhorrent Very repugnant; hateful.
abidance An abiding.
abject Sunk to a low condition.
abjure To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
able-bodied Competent for physical service.
ablution A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
abnegate To renounce (a right or privilege).
abnormal Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
abominable Very hateful.
abominate To hate violently.
abomination A very detestable act or practice.
aboriginal Primitive; unsophisticated.
aborigines The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
aboveboard & - Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
abrade To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
abrasion That which is rubbed off.
abridge To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
abridgment A condensed form as of a book or play.
abrogate To abolish, repeal.
abrupt Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
abscess A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
abscission The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
abscond To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
absence The fact of not being present or available.
absent-minded Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
absolution Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
absolve To free from sin or its penalties.
absorb To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
absorption The act or process of absorbing.
abstain To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
abstemious Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
abstinence Self denial.
abstruse Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
absurd Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
abundant Plentiful.
abusive Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
abut To touch at the end or boundary line.
abyss Bottomless gulf.
academic Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
academician A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
academy Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
accede To agree.
accelerate To move faster.
accept To take when offered.
access A way of approach or entrance; passage.
accessible Approachable.
accession Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
accessory A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
acclaim To utter with a shout.
accommodate To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
accompaniment A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
accompanist One who or that which accompanies.
accompany To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
accomplice An associate in wrong-doing.
accomplish To bring to pass.
accordion A portable free-reed musical instrument.
accost To speak to.
account A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
accouter To dress.
accredit To give credit or authority to.
accumulate To become greater in quantity or number.
accuracy Exactness.
accurate Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
accursed Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
accusation A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
accusatory Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
accuse To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
accustom To make familiar by use.
acerbity Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
acetate A salt of acetic acid.
acetic Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
ache To be in pain or distress.
Achillean Invulnerable.
achromatic Colorless,
acid A sour substance.
acidify To change into acid.
acknowledge To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
acknowledgment Recognition.
acme The highest point, or summit.
acoustic Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
acquaint To make familiar or conversant.
acquiesce To comply; submit.
acquiescence Passive consent.
acquire To get as one's own.
acquisition Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
acquit To free or clear, as from accusation.
acquittal A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
acquittance Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
acreage Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
acrid Harshly pungent or bitter.
acrimonious Full of bitterness.
acrimony Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
actionable Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
actuality Any reality.
actuary An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
actuate To move or incite to action.
acumen Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
acute Having fine and penetrating discernment.
adamant Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
addendum Something added, or to be added.
addle To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
adduce To bring forward or name for consideration.
adhere To stick fast or together.
adherence Attachment.
adherent Clinging or sticking fast.
adhesion The state of being attached or joined.
adjacency The state of being adjacent.
adjacent That which is near or bordering upon.
adjudge To award or bestow by formal decision.
adjunct Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
adjuration A vehement appeal.
adjutant Auxiliary.
administrator One who manages affairs of any kind.
admissible Having the right or privilege of entry.
admittance Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
admonish To warn of a fault.
admonition Gentle reproof.
ado unnecessary activity or ceremony.
adoration Profound devotion.
adroit Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
adulterant An adulterating substance.
adulterate To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
adumbrate To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
advent The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
adverse Opposing or opposed.
adversity Misfortune.
advert To refer incidentally.
advertiser One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
advisory Not mandatory.
advocacy The act of pleading a cause.
advocate One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
aerial Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
aeronaut One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
aeronautics the art or practice of flying aircraft
aerostat A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
aerostatics The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
affable Easy to approach.
affect To act upon
affectation A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
affiliate Some auxiliary person or thing.
affirmative Answering yes; to a question at issue.
affix To fasten.
affluence A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
affront An open insult or indignity.
afire On fire, literally or figuratively.
afoot In progress.
aforesaid Said in a preceding part or before.
afresh Once more, after rest or interval.
afterthought A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
agglomerate To pile or heap together.
aggrandize To cause to appear greatly.
aggravate To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
aggravation The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
aggregate The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
aggress To make the first attack.
aggression An unprovoked attack.
aggrieve To give grief or sorrow to.
aghast Struck with terror and amazement.
agile Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
agitate To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
agrarian Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
aide-de-camp An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
ailment Slight sickness.
airy Delicate, ethereal.
akin Of similar nature or qualities.
alabaster A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
alacrity Cheerful willingness.
albino A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
album A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
alchemy Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
alcohol A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
alcoholism A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
alcove A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
alder Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
alderman A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
aldermanship The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
alias An assumed name.
alien One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
alienable Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
alienate To cause to turn away.
alienation Estrangement.
aliment That which nourishes.
alkali Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
allay To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
allege To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
allegory The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
alleviate To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
alley A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
alliance Any combination or union for some common purpose.
allot To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
allotment Portion.
allude To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
allusion An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
alluvion Flood.
ally A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
almanac A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
aloof Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
altar Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
alter To make change in.
alteration Change or modification.
altercate To contend angrily or zealously in words.
alternate One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
alternative Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
altitude Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
alto The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
altruism Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
altruist One who advocates or practices altruism.
amalgam An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
amalgamate To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
amateur Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
amatory Designed to excite love.
ambidextrous Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
ambiguous Having a double meaning.
ambitious Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
ambrosial Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
ambulance A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
ambulate To walk about
ambush The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
ameliorate To relieve, as from pain or hardship
amenable Willing and ready to submit.
Americanism A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
amicable Done in a friendly spirit.
amity Friendship.
amorous Having a propensity for falling in love.
amorphous Without determinate shape.
amour A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
ampere The practical unit of electric-current strength.
ampersand The character &; and.
amphibious Living both on land and in water.
amphitheater An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
amplitude Largeness.
amply Sufficiently.
amputate To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
amusement Diversion.
anachronism Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
anagram The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
analogous Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
analogy Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
analyst One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
analyze To examine minutely or critically.
anarchy Absence or utter disregard of government.
anathema Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
anatomy That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
ancestry One's ancestors collectively.
anecdote A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
anemia Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
anemic Affected with anemia.
anemometer An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
anesthetic Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
anew Once more.
angelic Saintly.
Anglophobia Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
Anglo-Saxon The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
angular Sharp-cornered.
anhydrous Withered.
animadversion The utterance of criticism or censure.
animadvert To pass criticism or censure.
animalcule An animal of microscopic smallness.
animate To make alive.
animosity Hatred.
annalist Historian.
annals A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
annex To add or affix at the end.
annihilate To destroy absolutely.
annotate To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
annual Occurring every year.
annuity An annual allowance, payment, or income.
annunciation Proclamation.
anode The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
anonymous Of unknown authorship.
antagonism Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
Antarctic Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
ante In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
antecede To precede.
antecedent One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
antechamber A waiting room for those who seek audience.
antedate To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
antediluvian Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
antemeridian Before noon.
antemundane Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
antenatal Occurring or existing before birth.
anterior Prior.
anteroom A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
anthology A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
anthracite Hard coal.
anthropology The science of man in general.
anthropomorphous Having or resembling human form.
antic A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
Antichrist Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
anticlimax A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
anticyclone An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
antidote Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
antilogy Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
antipathize To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
antiphon A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
antiphony An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
antipodes A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
antiquary One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
antiquate To make old or out of date.
antique Pertaining to ancient times.
antiseptic Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
antislavery Opposed to human slavery.
antispasmodic Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
antistrophe The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
antitoxin A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
antonym A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
anxious Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
apathy Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
aperture Hole.
apex The highest point, as of a mountain.
aphorism Proverb.
apiary A place where bees are kept.
apogee The climax.
apology A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
apostasy A total departure from one's faith or religion.
apostate False.
apostle Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
apothecary One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
apotheosis Deification.
appall To fill with dismay or horror.
apparent Easily understood.
apparition Ghost.
appease To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
appellate Capable of being appealed to.
appellation The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
append To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
appertain To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
apposite Appropriate.
apposition The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
appraise To estimate the money value of.
appreciable Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
apprehend To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
apprehensible Capable of being conceived.
approbation Sanction.
appropriate Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
aqueduct A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
aqueous Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
arbiter One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
arbitrary Fixed or done capriciously.
arbitrate To act or give judgment as umpire.
arbor A tree.
arboreal Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
arborescent Having the nature of a tree.
arboretum A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
arboriculture The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
arcade A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
archaic Antiquated
archaism Obsolescence.
archangel An angel of high rank.
archbishop The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
archdeacon A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
archaeology The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
archetype A prototype.
archipelago Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
ardent Burning with passion.
ardor Intensity of passion or affection.
arid Very dry.
aristocracy A hereditary nobility
aristocrat A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
armada A fleet of war-vessels.
armful As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
armory An arsenal.
aroma An agreeable odor.
arraign To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
arrange To put in definite or proper order.