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Amity
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n. friendship. Student exchange programs such as the Experiment in International Living were established to promote international amity.
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Amorous
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adj. moved by sexual love; loving. Amorous Don Juan
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Ample
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adj. abundant. Bond had ample opportunity to escape. Why, then, did he let us capture him?
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Amplify
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v. broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger. Charlie Brwon tried to amplify his remarks, but he was drwoned out by jeeers from the audience. Lucy was smaters: she used a loudspeaker to amplify her voice.
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Amok
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adv. in a state of rage. the police had to be calle din to restrain him after he ran amok in the department store.
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Amulet
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n. charm; talisman. Around her neck she wore the amulet that the doctor had given her.
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Anathema
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n. solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse. The Ayatolla Khomeini heaped anathema upon the United States. To the Ayatolla, America and the West were an anathema.
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Ancillary
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adj. serving as an aid or accessory; auxilliary. In an ancillary capacity Doctor Watson was helpful; however, Homes could not rust the good donctor to sovle a perplexing case on his own.
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Anecdote
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short account of an amusing or interesting event. Rather than providing concrete welfare reform, Nixon offered anecdotes about poor people escaping poverty.
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Angular
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adj. sharp-cornered; stiff in manner. Mr. Spock's features, thoung angular, were curiously attractive in a Vulcan way.
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Animadversion
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v. critical remark. He resented the animadversions of his critics.
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Animus
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n. hostile feelig or intent. The animus of the speaker became obvious when he began making costic remarks.
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Anneal
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v. reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling. After the glass in annealed, it will be less subject to chipping and cracking.
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Annuity
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n. yearly allowance. The annuity she set up with the insurance agent supplements her social security.
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Anodyne
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n. drug that relieves pain e.g opiate
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Antecede
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to precede. The invention of the telegraph anteceded the inventio of the television.
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Antediluvian
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adj. antiquated; extremely ancient
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Anthem
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n. song of praise or patriotism
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Anthropoid
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adj. manlike. The gorilla is the strongest of the anthropoid animals.
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Antic
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adj. extravagantly odd. Putting on an antic dipositition, Hamlet acts so odd that the Danish court thinks him mad.
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Ape
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v. imitate or mimic. In the comedy YOund Frankesnstien, whe the servant Igo limps off, saying, "Walk this way", the hero apes him, hobbling after Igor in an imitation of his walk.
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Aphasia
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n. loss os peech due to injury or illness. Afer the automobile accident, the victim had periods of aphasia when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.
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Apiary
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n. a place where bees are kept. Although he spent many hours daily in the apiray, he was very seldom stung by a bee.
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Aplomb
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n. poise, assurace. Gwens' aplomb in handling potentially embarassing moments was legendary around the office; when one of her clients broke a peice of her best crystal, whe cooly picked up her own goblet and hurled in into the fireplace.
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Apocryphal
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adj. spurious; not authentic; invented rather than true. Although many versions exist of Emerson's visit to Thoreau in jail, the stories are mostly apocryphal.
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Apogee
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n. highest point
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Apologist
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n. one who writes in defense of a cause or institution
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Apostate
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n. one who abandons hie religious faith or polical beliefs
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