adulation |
flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved |
adulterate |
make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances |
Advent |
arrival |
adventitious |
accidental; casual; happening by chance |
adversary |
opponent; enemy |
adverse |
going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile |
adversity |
great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event |
advert |
refer |
advocacy |
support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something |
advocate |
speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for |
aegis |
shield; protection; defense |
aerie(aery,eyrie,eyry) |
nest of a large bird of prey |
aesthetic |
artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics |
affable |
easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly |
affected |
artificial; pretended |
affidavit |
written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) |
affiliation |
joining; associating with |
affinity |
feeling of kinship; similarity; Ex. strong affinity for her; Ex. many affinities between two languages |
affirmation |
positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; V. affirm; ADJ. affirmative; CF. affirmative action: positive discrimination |
affliction |
state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on |
affluence |
abundance; wealth |
affront |
insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally |
afterlife |
life after death; later part of one's life |
agape |
openmouthed |
agenda |
items of business at a meeting |
agglomeration |
collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass; heap |
aggrandize |
make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
aggregate |
sum; total; ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; Ex. aggregate 100 dollars |
aghast |
filled with great surprise or fear; horrified |
agility |
nimbleness; ability to move quickly |
agitate |
stir up; disturb |
agnostic |
one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality |
agog |
highly excited; intensely curious |
agrarian |
pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
airy |
of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal |
alacrity |
cheerful promptness without reluctance |
alchemy |
medieval chemistry |
alcove |
nook; recess |
alias |
an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); ADV. alias |
alienate |
make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of |
alimentary |
supplying nourishment |
alimony |
payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce |
allay |
calm; pacify |
allege |
state without proof |
allegiance |
loyalty |
allegory |
story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable |
alleviate |
relieve (pain) |
alliteration |
repetition of beginning sound in poetry |
allocate |
assign; set apart for a particular purpose |
alloy |
mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness |
allude |
refer indirectly; N. allusion: indirect reference |
allure |
entice; attract; tempt |
alluvial |
pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
alms |
money or goods given to the poor |
aloft |
upward; high up in the air |
aloof |
apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV. |
altercation |
noisy quarrel |
altruistic |
unselfishly generous; concerned for others; N. altiruism: unselfish concern for the welfare of others; unselfishness; OP. egoism |
amalgam |
combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth |
amalgamate |
(of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body |
amass |
collect (gradually, in a very large amount) |
amazon |
female warrior |
ambidextrous |
capable of using either hand with equal ease |
ambience |
environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
ambiguous |
unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation |
ambivalence |
the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions |
amble |
walking at an easy unhurried pace; V: walk slowly and aimlessly |
ambrosia |
food of the gods |
ambulatory |
able to walk |
ambush |
act of lying in wait to attack by surprise; sudden attack made from a concealed position; Ex. lie in ambush; V. |
ameliorate |
improve |
amenable |
obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests |
amend |
correct; change ; generally for the better |
amenities |
convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies |
amiable |
agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly |
amicable |
peaceful; politely friendly; not quarrelsome; Ex. amicable settlement |
amiss |
wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV. |
amity |
friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
amnesia |
loss of memory |
amnesty |
pardon (allowed by government to political criminals) |
amok(amuck) |
in a state of rage; Ex. run amok |
amoral |
nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong |
amorous |
moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; Ex. amorous advances |
amorphous |
formless; lacking shape or definition |
amphibian |
able to live both on land and in water; N. |
amphitheater |
oval building with tiers of seats; CF. arena |
ample |
enough; abundant; spacious; large in size; Ex. ample opportunity/garden; N. amplitude: quality of being ample; abundance; largeness of space |
amplify |
increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph |
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