| A | B |
|---|
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by that person |
| autograph | a person's signature or handwriting |
| automatic | having a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism; done without thought or conscious effort |
| automobile | a passenger vehicle with its own engine |
| autonomous | self-governing |
| contraband | any articles forbidden to be brought into or taken out of a country |
| contra-, contro- | against |
| auto- | self |
| dictate | to say something aloud that will be written or recorded by another; to command or order |
| dictator | a ruler with unlimited power |
| diction | a style of speaking; the degree of preciseness or clarity in speech |
| predict | to foretell or say ahead of time that something will happen |
| verdict | a judgement or decision, especially that of a jury in a court case |
| dict | to say |
