Dictionary

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Abashed

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Embarrassed or ashamed.

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Aback

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Shocked or surprised.

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Abdicate

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To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility.

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Abdominal

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Relating to the abdomen

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Abase

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To lower in rank, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate, degrade.

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Aberrant

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Not usual or not socially acceptable

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Abeyance

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Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let's hold that problem in abeyance for a while.

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Abhor

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to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe;abominate.

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Abide

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to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.

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Abject

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Utterly wretched or hopeless

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Abjure

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to renounce or give up under oath; forswear:to abjure allegiance.

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Abolition

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The act of abolishing or the state of being abolished; annulment

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Abominable

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Repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome:an abominable crime.

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Abominate

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to dislike strongly.

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Abrade

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to wear off or down by scraping or rubbing.

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Abysmal

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extremely or hopelessly bad or severe:abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.

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Accentuate

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to give emphasis or prominence to.

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Abridge

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to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail:to abridge a visit; to abridge one's freedom.

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accretion

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an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growthin size or extent.

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Abscond

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to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution:The cashier absconded with the money.

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Absolution

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freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties.

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Absolve

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to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.

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Abstemious

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sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.

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Abundance

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an extremely plentiful or over sufficient quantity or supply: an abundance of grain.

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Absurd

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utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false

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Abstruse

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hard to understand; recondite; esoteric:abstruse theories.

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Accumulate

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to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up:to accumulate wealth.

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Accustom

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to familiarize by custom or use; habituate:to accustom oneself to cold weather.

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Acquiesce

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to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree;consent:to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.

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Acquisition

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the act of acquiring or gaining possession:the acquisition of real estate.

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Acrimony

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sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature: The speaker attacked him with great acrimony.

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Adjacent

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lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.

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Adjourn

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to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to afuture time, another place, or indefinitely:to adjourn the court.

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Adjudicate

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to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.

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Admonish

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to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner:The teacher admonished him about excessive noise.

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Adorn

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to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.

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Adroit

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cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious:an adroit debater.

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Advocate

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to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument;recommend publicly:He advocated higher salaries for teachers.

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Affix

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to fasten, join, or attach (usually followed by to):to affix stamps to a letter.

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Affluent

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having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods;prosperous; rich:an affluent person.

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Agonizing

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accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress:We spent an agonizing hour waiting to hear if the accident had beenserious or not.

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Alacrity

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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness:We accepted the invitation with alacrity.

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Aloof

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at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart: They always stood aloof from their classmates.

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Altruism

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the principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to thewelfare of others

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Ambiguity

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doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention:to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.

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Ambrosia

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something especially delicious to taste or smell.

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Ambit

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circumference; circuit.

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Ameliorate

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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory;improve:strategies to ameliorate negative effects on the environment.

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Amenable

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ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence,

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Ambulatory

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of, relating to, or capable of walking:an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.

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Ambivalent

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having mixed feelings about someone or something

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amble

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to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter:He ambled around the town.

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amenity

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an agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility:the graceful amenities of society.

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amiable

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having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable:an amiable disposition.

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amid

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in the middle of; surrounded by; among:to stand weeping amid the ruins.

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amity

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friendship; peaceful harmony.

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amnesty

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a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.

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amorphous

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lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless:the amorphous clouds.

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anathema

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a person or thing detested or loathed:That subject is anathema to him.

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animosity

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a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself inaction: a deep-seated animosity between two sisters

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antiquated

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continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned:antiquated attitudes.

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accession

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the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.:accession to the throne.