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Startling

Surprising, astonisging

Jettison

Throw or drop something

Abeyance

Suspended action

Abrasive

Tending to grind down


Rubbing away

Academic

Not practicaly or directly useful

Advent

Arrival

Affliction

A state of distress,


Cause of suffering

Affluence

Abundance

Agenda

Items of business at a meeting

Agility

Nimblelness

Alloy

Make less pure or moderate


Mix

Allusion

Indirect reference

Ambulatory

Able to walk

Amorous

Moved by sexual love

Amputate

Cut off part of body

Prune

To cut off a part


Unpleasant or diagreeable person


Anchor

Secure or fasten firmly in place

Ancillary

Serving as an aid or auxillary

Annex

Attach, take possessiion of

Annotate

Comment


Make explanatory notes

Anonymity

State of being nameless


Anonymous

Unnamed


Unremarkable

Impersonal

Unnamed


Unbiased


Aloof

Anthology

Book of literary selections by various authors

Anticlimax

Letdown in thought or emotion

Apolitical

Having an aversion or disintereest towards politics affairs

Append

Attach

Application

Diligent attention

Appraise

Estimate value of

Apprehend

Arrest a criminal,


Dread

Apropos

To the point and timely

Apropos

With reference to


Regarding to

Array

Marshal, draw up in order

Astringent

Binding


Causing contraction


Harsh or severe

Astronomical

Enormously large or extensive

Atrophy

Wasting away

Attrition

Gradual decrease in numbers


Reduction in work force without firing employees


Wearing away of oppostion by means of harassment

Atypical

Not normal

Balk

To foil

Balmy

Mild, fragrant

Bandy

Discuss lightly or gilbly


Heatd argument

Barterer

Trader

Beatify

Bless or sanctify

Beeline

Direct, quick route

Beget

Father, produce, give rise to

Belabor

Explain or go over excessively


Assail verbaly

Bestow

Confer or present

Blare

Loud harsh, screech


Dazzling blaze of light

Blase

Bored with pleasures or dissipation

Bleak

Cheerless


Unlikely to be favorable

Bluff

Rough but good natured

Bluff

Pretense of strength


Deception


High cliff

Blurt

Utter impulsivly

Bourgeosis

Middle class, selfishly materialistic


Dully conventional

Braggadocio

Boasting

Brawn

Muscular strength

Broach

Introduce, open up

Brook

Tolerate endure

Browse

Grazing


Skim or glance at casually

Brunt

Main impact or shock

Bungle

Mismanage, blunder

Burlesque

Give an imitation that ridicules

Burnish

Make shiny by rubbing

Buxom

Fully blossomed


Plump, jolly

Cadge

Beg


Mooch


Panhandle

Canon

Collection of authorotative list of books

Canvass

Determine or seek opinions, votes

Carnal

Fleshly

Catechism

Book for religious instruction


Instruction by question and answer

Cauterize

Burn with hot iron or caustic

Celestial

Heavenly

Celibate

Abstaining from sexual intercourse, unmarried

Cerebration

Thought

Certitude

Certainity

Cession

Yielding to another, ceding

Chaste

Pure, virginal, modest

Cherubic

Angelic, innocent looking

Cipher

Non entity, worthless person or thing


Secret code

Clamber

Climb by crawling

Clientele

Body of customers

Clime

Region


Climate

Cognate

Related linguistically


Similar in nature


Related by blood

Cognizance

Knowledge

Colander

Strainer

Colloquial

Pertaining to conversational or common speech

Comeuppance

Rebuke, deserts

Comity

Courtesy, civility

Commandeer

To draft for military purposew


To take for public use

Compact

Agreement, contract

Compute

Reckon, calculate

Congeal

Freeze, coagulate