| Term | Definition |
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avert |
To turn away or aside in avoidance |
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abnormal |
Deviating from the normal or average |
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abstain |
to hold oneself back voluntarily |
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apathy |
lack of feeling or emotion |
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atheist |
one who denies the existence of god |
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anarchy |
having no ruler |
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anesthesia |
loss of sensation with or without loss of consciousness |
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anonymous |
not named or identified |
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acronym |
a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words |
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acrobat |
a skilled performer of gymnastic feats, as walking on a tightrope or swinging on a trapeze or a person who readily changes viewpoints or opinions |
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Acrophobia |
a pathological fear of heights |
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Aigosthena |
the citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city |
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alter |
an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc |
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somethingmeter |
a sensitive aneroid barometer that is graduated and calibrated, used chiefly in aircraft for finding distance above sea level, terrain, or some other reference point by a comparison of air pressures or any device used for the same purpose that operates by some other means, as by radio waves. |
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altitude |
extent or distance upward; height |
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Ambidextrous |
able to use both hands equally well |
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ambivalence |
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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Ambivert |
one whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert |
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antonym |
a word opposite in meaning to another |
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aversion |
an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling |
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