| A | B |
|---|
| abeyance | temporary suspension of an activity |
| abnegation | self-denial; giving up of rights |
| absolve | to declare free of guilt and blame |
| acrimonious | sharp or bitter in language or manner |
| adjure | to command or charge someone |
| aberration | a deviation |
| abject | misterable; hopelessly low |
| abscond | to run away |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| adjudge | to decree or decide by law |
| admonish | to reprove mildly and kindly |
| affront | a deliberate public insult |
| amorphous | without shape |
| antipathy | a strong dislike |
| apostasy | a complete forsaking of what one has believed in |
| artifice | a skill; a clever device |
| adroit | clever; skillful; expert |
| allay | to lessen; to relieve |
| anarchy | absence of government or law |
| antipodes | two opposite things |
