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A, english vocab
words that begin with A
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| adroit | skillful; clever |
| adulterate | to make impure; to contaminate |
| adventitious | accidental; nonessential |
| aegis | a shield; protection; sponsorship |
| aesthetic | pertaining to beauty |
| affectation | phony attitude; pose |
| affinity | an attraction to |
| affluence | wealth; richness |
| agape | open-mouthed; surprised; agog |
| aggrandize | to enlarge or to expand |
| altruism | a concern for others; generosity |
| ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| amoral | lacking a sense of right and wrong |
| amorphous | shapeless; formless; vague |
| animosity | hatred |
| antipathy | intense dislike |
| antithesis | exact opposite; opposite extreme |
| badinage | playful, teasing talk |
| banal | common, ordinary |
| baroque | overly decorated |
| bauble | showy but useless thing |
| bedlam | noisy uproar |
| beguile | to deceive, charm, enchant |
| besiege | to overwhelm |
| besmirch | make dirty; stain |
| bestial | savage, brutal |
| bilious | bad tempered; cross |
| blanch | whiten; to make pale |
| bland | mild, tasteless, dull |
| blandishment | flattery |
| caveat | warning |
| boor | rude or impolite person |
| bona fide | in good faith |
| carrion | decaying flesh |
| brevity | briefness |
| carcinogenic | causing cancer |
| carnal | sensual, sexual |
| bovine | pertaining to cows |
| bucolic | pertaining to countryside |
| cataclysm | violent change |
| cataract | abnormality of the eye |
| bombastic | using impressive but meaningless language |
| callow | young and inexperienced |
| bowdlerize | remove offensive passages from a play/novel |
| cajole | to coax, persuade |
| celibate | unmarried |
| censure | to criticize sharply |
| cessation | stopping/discontinuance |
| chaff | worthless matter |
| chagrin | embarrassment |
| chimerical | imaginary, fantastic |
| coalesce | to blend, to merge |
| debacle | a complete failure, total collapse |
| debauchery | corruption, self-indulgence |
| deference | respect, consideration |
| defile | to pollute, to corrupt |
| deign | to lower oneself before an inferior |
| delineate | to describe, to depict |
| demeanor | behavior |
| denouement | an outcome; result |
| deride | to mock |
| desiccated | dried up |
| despicable | hateful |
| desultory | wandering from subject to subject |
| deviate | to turn aside |
| diadem | a crown |
| diaphanous | very sheer and light |
| dichotomy | a division into two parts |
| ebullient | enthusiastic |
| eclectic | choosing from various sources |
| edify | improve someone morally |
| effete | worn out |
| egregious | outrageous |
| elegy | sad or mournful poem |
| elicit | to call forth |
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