| A | B |
| adamant | unbreakable due to hardness; unrelenting; unyielding |
| affinity | a natural attraction or liking for a person or a thing; a close relationship |
| affluent | wealthy; abundant; plentiful |
| allegory | a story in which people, settings, or actions represent ideas or moral qualities |
| alleviate | to calm; to ease suffering of the body or mind |
| altercation | an angry argument |
| ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning; not clear; obscure |
| ambivalent | having mixed, conflicting, or changing emotions or thoughts toward a person or thing |
| anagram | a word or phrase formed from another by changing the order of the letters |
| anecdote | a brief and entertaining account of an interesing incident |