| A | B |
|---|
| accretion | slow growth in size or amount |
| acerbic | biting, bitter in tone or taste |
| acrimony | bitterness, discord |
| adamant | impervious, immovable, unyielding |
| adept | extremely skilled |
| acumen | keen insight |
| acute | sharp, severe and having keen insight |
| acquiesce | to agree without protesting |
| aggrandize | to increase or make greater |
| affront | an insult |
| affluent | rich, wealthy |
| aggregate | a whole or total and to gather into a mass |
| aggrieved | distressed, wronged, injured |
| advocate | to argue in favor of something and a person who argues in favor of something |
| affinity | a spontaneous feeling of closeness |
| adulation | extreme praise |
| adroit | skillful, dexterous |
| admonish | to caution, criticize, or reprove |
| adhere | to stick to something and to follow devoutly |
| affable | friendly, amiable |
| aerial | somehow related to the air |
| aesthetic | artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty |
| adverse | antagonistic, unfavorable, dangerous |
| adorn | to decorate |
| adumbrate | to sketch out in a vague way |
