| A | B |
| alienate | estrange, disaffect, antagonize |
| allege | claim contend, declare, assert, affirm |
| allude | hint at, suggest , insinuate, intimate |
| ambience | surroundings, milieu, setting |
| ambivalent | contradictory, opposing, conflicting, equivocal, vacillating |
| amnesty | forgiveness, immunity, absolution |
| anachronism | incongruity, inconsistency, contradiction, throwback |
| anarchy | disorder, chaos, lawlessness, pandemonium |
| anathema | malediction, execration, imprecation |
| anecdote | tale, vignette, reminiscence, memoir, raconteur |
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