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To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
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Admonish (V)
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When the IB kids did not do their work, I tried to admonish them that they would not pass the IB test with an admonitory tone.
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Adept, dexterous
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Adroit (adj)
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Mike Holmes is an adroit manipulator.
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Excessive praise; intense adoration
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Adulation (n)
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adulation is adoration
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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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adulterate (v)
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adultery can make a marriage inpure
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To foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest or outline
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Adumbrate (v)
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A dumb rate for house interest is 10% which will adumbrate the forclosure of a house.
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Dealing with , appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
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Aesthetic (adj)
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As the tic went to the Aesthetic spa, he thought he would become an aesthetic tic.
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To increase in intensity, power, or preistige; to make appear greater
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Aggrandize (v)
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A grand size of power can aggrandize one's ego.
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Eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Alacrity (n)
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A lack of tea in one's glass often has teh host respond with alacrity to refill it.
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Medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold; any magical or wonderful tranformation
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Alchemy (n)
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Sometimes I wish I could use alchemy on my students
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