| A | B |
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| apocryphal | Of questionable authorship or authenticity; Erroneous; fictitious |
| analytical | Skilled in thinking or reasoning. |
| atrophy | A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use |
| amphibious | Living or able to live both on land and in water. |
| mnemonic | Relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory. |
| pantheon | All the gods of a people considered as a group |
| anachronism | The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. |
| pantomime | Communication by means of gesture and facial expression |
| atheist | One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods. |
| antipodal | Of, relating to, or situated on the opposite side or sides of the earth |
| analgesic | A medication that reduces or eliminates pain. |
| analogy | Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. b. A comparison based on such similarity. |
| antibiotics | A substance that destroy or inhibit the growth of other organisms. |
| anatomy | The bodily structure of a plant or a animal or of any of its parts |
| apotheosized | To glorify; exalt. |
| catalytic | Something causing a change. Something that precipitates a process or event. |
| dialogue | A conversation between two or more people |
| pandemonium | Wild uproar or noise. |
| amnesty | A general pardon granted by a government, especially for political offenses. |
| apogee | the farthest or highest point; the apex |
| epitome | A representative or example |
| eccentricity | Deviation from the normal, expected, or established. |
| endemic | Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people |
| antagonistic | One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary. |
| glossary | A list of often difficult or specialized words with their definitions |
| euthanasia | The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition |
| exodus | A departure of a large number of people. |
| epidemic | Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time |
| pandemic | Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population |
| exogamy | The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit. |
| epitaph | An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. |
| anemic | Lacking vitality; listless and weak |
| encyclical | Roman Catholic Church A papal letter addressed to the bishops of the Church or to the hierarchy of a particular country. |
| dystrophy | A degenerative disorder caused by inadequate or defective nutrition. |
| ephemeral | Lasting for a markedly brief time |
| apostolic | Of, relating to, or derived from the teaching or practice of the 12 Apostles. |
| epistolary | Of or associated with letters or the writing of letters. |
| eulogy | A speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died. |
| evangelic | Of, relating to, or being a Protestant church that founds its teaching on the gospel. |
| epilogue | A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work. |
| syntax | The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences. |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” |
| hypodermic | Injected beneath the skin. |
| anomaly | Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule. |
| paradoxical | A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true: the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking. |
| hypertrophy | A nontumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue |
| agnostic | One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God. |
| euphoria | A feeling of great happiness or well-being. |
| metabolic | The chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life. |
| synod | A council or an assembly. |
| metamorphosed | To change into a wholly different form or appearance; transform |
| paraphernalia | Personal belongings. |
| prognosticate | To predict according to present indications or signs; foretell; predict. |
| perigee | The point in any orbit nearest to the body being orbited. |
| hyberbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. |
| antonym | A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word. |
| endemic | Native to or confined to a certain region. |
| periphery | A line that forms the boundary of an area; a perimeter. |
| syllogistic | Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction; A subtle or specious piece of reasoning. |
| homonym | One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept). |
