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1. abase - To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.

2. abbess - The lady superior of a nunnery.

3. abbey - The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.

4. abbot - The superior of a community of monks.

5. abdicate - To give up (royal power or the like).

6. abdomen - In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.

7. abdominal - Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.

8. abduction - A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.

9. abed - In bed; on a bed.

10. aberration - Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.

11. abet - To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).

12. abeyance - A state of suspension or temporary inaction.

13. abhorrence - The act of detesting extremely.

14. abhorrent - Very repugnant; hateful.

15. abidance - An abiding.


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1. abject - Sunk to a low condition.

2. abjure - To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.

3. able-bodied - Competent for physical service.

4. ablution - A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.

5. abnegate - To renounce (a right or privilege).

6. abnormal - Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.

7. abominable - Very hateful.

8. abominate - To hate violently.

9. abomination - A very detestable act or practice.

10. aboriginal - Primitive; unsophisticated.

11. aborigines - The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.

12. aboveboard - Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.

13. abrade - To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.

14. abrasion - That which is rubbed off.

15. abridge - To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.



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1. abridgment - A condensed form as of a book or play.

2. abrogate - To abolish, repeal.

3. abrupt - Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.

4. abscess - A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.

5. abscission - The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.

6. abscond - To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.

7. absence - The fact of not being present or available.

8. absent-minded - Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

9. absolution - Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.

10. absolve - To free from sin or its penalties.

11. absorb - To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.

12. absorption - The act or process of absorbing.

13. abstain - To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).

14. abstemious - Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.

15. abstinence - Self denial.



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1. abstruse - Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.

2. absurd - Inconsistent with reason or common sense.

3. abundant - Plentiful.

4. abusive - Employing harsh words or ill treatment.

5. abut - To touch at the end or boundary line.

6. abyss - Bottomless gulf.

7. academic - Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.

8. academician - A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.

9. academy - Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.

10. accede - To agree.

11. accelerate - To move faster.

12. accept - To take when offered.

13. access - A way of approach or entrance; passage.

14. accessible - Approachable.

15. accession - Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.


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1. accessory - A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

2. acclaim - To utter with a shout.

3. accommodate - To furnish something as a kindness or favor.

4. accompaniment - A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.

5. accompanist - One who or that which accompanies.

6. accompany - To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.

7. accomplice - An associate in wrong-doing.

8. accomplish - To bring to pass.

9. accordion - A portable free-reed musical instrument.

10. accost - To speak to.

11. account - A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.

12. accouter - To dress.

13. accredit - To give credit or authority to.

14. accumulate - To become greater in quantity or number.

15. accuracy - Exactness.



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1. accurate - Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.

2. accursed - Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.

3. accusation - A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.

4. accusatory - Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.

5. accuse - To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.

6. accustom - To make familiar by use.

7. acerbity - Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.

8. acetate - A salt of acetic acid.

9. acetic - Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.

10. ache - To be in pain or distress.

11. Achillean - Invulnerable.

12. achromatic - Colorless,

13. acid - A sour substance.

14. acidify - To change into acid.

15. acknowledge - To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.


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1. acknowledgment - Recognition.

2. acme - The highest point, or summit.

3. acoustic - Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.

4. acquaint - To make familiar or conversant.

5. acquiesce - To comply; submit.

6. acquiescence - Passive consent.

7. acquire - To get as ones own.

8. acquisition - Anything gained, or made ones own, usually by effort or labor.

9. acquit - To free or clear, as from accusation.

10. acquittal - A discharge from accusation by judicial action.

11. acquittance - Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.

12. acreage - Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.

13. acrid - Harshly pungent or bitter.

14. acrimonious - Full of bitterness.

15. acrimony - Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.



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1. actionable - Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.

2. actuality - Any reality.

3. actuary - An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.

4. actuate - To move or incite to action.

5. acumen - Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.

6. acute - Having fine and penetrating discernment.

7. adamant - Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.

8. addendum - Something added, or to be added.

9. addle - To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.

10. adduce - To bring forward or name for consideration.

11. adhere - To stick fast or together.

12. adherence - Attachment.

13. adherent - Clinging or sticking fast.

14. adhesion - The state of being attached or joined.

15. adieu inter. Good-by; farewell. -



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1. adjacency - The state of being adjacent.

2. adjacent - That which is near or bordering upon.

3. adjudge - To award or bestow by formal decision.

4. adjunct - Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.

5. adjuration - A vehement appeal.

6. adjutant - Auxiliary.

7. administrator - One who manages affairs of any kind.

8. admissible - Having the right or privilege of entry.

9. admittance - Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.

10. admonish - To warn of a fault.

11. admonition - Gentle reproof.

12. ado - unnecessary activity or ceremony.

13. adoration - Profound devotion.

14. adroit - Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.

15. adulterant - An adulterating substance.



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1. adulterate - To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.

2. adumbrate - To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.

3. advent - The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.

4. adverse - Opposing or opposed.

5. adversity - Misfortune.

6. advert - To refer incidentally.

7. advertiser - One who advertises, especially in newspapers.

8. advisory - Not mandatory.

9. advocacy - The act of pleading a cause.

10. advocate - One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.

11. aerial - Of, pertaining to, or like the air.

12. aeronaut - One who navigates the air, a balloonist.

13. aeronautics - the art or practice of flying aircraft

14. aerostat - A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.

15. aerostatics - The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.


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1. affable - Easy to approach.

2. affect - To act upon

3. affectation - A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.

4. affiliate - Some auxiliary person or thing.

5. affirmative - Answering yes; to a question at issue.

6. affix - To fasten.

7. affluence - A profuse or abundant supply of riches.

8. affront - An open insult or indignity.

9. afire - On fire, literally or figuratively.

10. afoot - In progress.

11. aforesaid - Said in a preceding part or before.

12. afresh - Once more, after rest or interval.

13. afterthought - A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.

14. agglomerate - To pile or heap together.

15. aggrandize - To cause to appear greatly.


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1. aggravate - To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.

2. aggravation - The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.

3. aggregate - The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.

4. aggress - To make the first attack.

5. aggression - An unprovoked attack.

6. aggrieve - To give grief or sorrow to.

7. aghast - Struck with terror and amazement.

8. agile - Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.

9. agitate - To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).

10. agrarian - Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.

11. aide-de-camp - An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.

12. ailment - Slight sickness.

13. airy - Delicate, ethereal.

14. akin - Of similar nature or qualities.

15. alabaster - A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.



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1. alacrity - Cheerful willingness.

2. albeit conj. Even though. -

3. albino - A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.

4. album - A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.

5. alchemy - Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.

6. alcohol - A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.

7. alcoholism - A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.

8. alcove - A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.

9. alder - Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.

10. alderman - A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.

11. aldermanship - The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.

12. alias - An assumed name.

13. alien - One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.

14. alienable - Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.

15. alienate - To cause to turn away.



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1. alienation - Estrangement.

2. aliment - That which nourishes.

3. alkali - Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.

4. allay - To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.

5. allege - To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.

6. allegory - The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.

7. alleviate - To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.

8. alley - A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.

9. alliance - Any combination or union for some common purpose.

10. allot - To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.

11. allotment - Portion.

12. allude - To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.

13. allusion - An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.

14. alluvion - Flood.

15. ally - A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.



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1. almanac - A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

2. aloof - Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.

3. altar - Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.

4. alter - To make change in.

5. alteration - Change or modification.

6. altercate - To contend angrily or zealously in words.

7. alternate - One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.

8. alternative - Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.

9. altitude - Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.

10. alto - The lowest or deepest female voice or part.

11. altruism - Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.

12. altruist - One who advocates or practices altruism.

13. amalgam - An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.

14. amalgamate - To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.

15. amateur - Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.



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1. amatory - Designed to excite love.

2. ambidextrous - Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.

3. ambiguous - Having a double meaning.

4. ambitious - Eagerly desirous and aspiring.

5. ambrosial - Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.

6. ambulance - A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.

7. ambulate - To walk about

8. ambush - The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.

9. ameliorate - To relieve, as from pain or hardship

10. amenable - Willing and ready to submit.

11. Americanism - A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.

12. amicable - Done in a friendly spirit.

13. amity - Friendship.

14. amorous - Having a propensity for falling in love.

15. amorphous - Without determinate shape.



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1. amour - A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.

2. ampere - The practical unit of electric-current strength.

3. ampersand - The character &; and.

4. amphibious - Living both on land and in water.

5. amphitheater - An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.

6. amplitude - Largeness.

7. amply - Sufficiently.

8. amputate - To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.

9. amusement - Diversion.

10. anachronism - Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.

11. anagram - The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.

12. analogous - Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.

13. analogy - Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.

14. analyst - One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.

15. analyze - To examine minutely or critically.



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1. anarchy - Absence or utter disregard of government.

2. anathema - Anything forbidden, as by social usage.

3. anatomy - That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.

4. ancestry - Ones ancestors collectively.

5. anecdote - A brief account of some interesting event or incident.

6. anemia - Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.

7. anemic - Affected with anemia.

8. anemometer - An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.

9. anesthetic - Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.

10. anew - Once more.

11. angelic - Saintly.

12. Anglophobia - Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.

13. Anglo-Saxon - The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.

14. angular - Sharp-cornered.

15. anhydrous - Withered.



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1. animadversion - The utterance of criticism or censure.

2. animadvert - To pass criticism or censure.

3. animalcule - An animal of microscopic smallness.

4. animate - To make alive.

5. animosity - Hatred.

6. annalist - Historian.

7. annals - A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.

8. annex - To add or affix at the end.

9. annihilate - To destroy absolutely.

10. annotate - To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.

11. annual - Occurring every year.

12. annuity - An annual allowance, payment, or income.

13. annunciation - Proclamation.

14. anode - The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.

15. anonymous - Of unknown authorship.



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1. antagonism - Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.

2. Antarctic - Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.

3. ante - In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.

4. antecede - To precede.

5. antecedent - One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.

6. antechamber - A waiting room for those who seek audience.

7. antedate - To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.

8. antediluvian - Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.

9. antemeridian - Before noon.

10. antemundane - Pertaining to time before the worlds creation.

11. antenatal - Occurring or existing before birth.

12. anterior - Prior.

13. anteroom - A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.

14. anthology - A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.

15. anthracite - Hard coal.