| A | B |
|---|
| attenuate | make thin, weaken, enervate |
| audacious | daring, foolishly bold, impudent |
| augury | omen, sign |
| august | majestic, venerable |
| auspice | protection or support, partonage |
| auspicious | favorable, successful, prosperous |
| austere | severly moral and strict; simple and plain |
| auxillary | helping, supporting |
| aver | affirm, assert, prove, justify |
| aversion | strong dislike |
| avid | eager, greedy |
| avow | admit, declare openly |
| baleful | harmful, omnious, causing evil |
| balk | obstacle; purpousley to ge on the way of |
| balloon | swell out like a balloon |
| balm | sweet-smelling oil; something giving piece of mind; consolation |
| banal | uninteresting |
| band | flat, thin strip of material; group; range of frequencies |
| bane | cause of injury, poison, source of harm |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive |
| barrage | artifical obstacle built across a river |
| barren | not good enough, unable to have young ones, without value |
| bask in | enjoy warmpth adn light |
| bazaar | market |
| be irreconcilable | cannot be brought into harmony |
| beatify | to bless, make happy, or ascribe virtue to |
| bedizen | to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner |
| belie | contradict, give a false impression |
| belittle | cause to seem unimportant |
| bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
| belligerent | (person, nation) waging war |
| belligerently | waging war |
| bend | cause something to be out of a straight line |
| benefactor | person who has given help |
| apprehensive | grasping, understanding; fear, unhappy feeling about the future |
| apprise | give notice to, inform |
| approbation | approval |
| appropriate | take for one's own use, acquire, set aside |
| apropos | appropriate to the situation; apt |
| apt | well-suited, quick-witted |
| arabseque | whimsical; a complex, ornate design |
| arbitrate | decide by arbitration |
| aboreal | of connected with trees |
| ardently | with full of ardour |
| ardour | enthusiasm |
| arduous | steep, difficult assent; laborous |
| argot | jargon, slang |
| arrant | in the highest degree |
| arrogance | proud, superior manner or behavior |
| articulate | speak distinctly, connected by joints |
| ascend | go or come up |
| ascent | the act of ascending |
| ascertain | get to know |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial, austere, stark |
| ascribe | consider to he the origin of or belonging to |
| asperity | roughness, harshness, ill temper, irritability |
| aspersion | slander |
| assail with | attack violently |
| asset | valuable quality, something that has monetary value |
| assiduous | dilligent, hard-working, sedulolus |
| assuage | make something (pain, desire) less |
| assumption | something supposed but not proved |
| asterisk | the mark * (eg. omitted letters) |
| astringent | substance that shrinks |
| astute | clever; quick at seeing to get an advantage |
| atonement | repayment; death of Jesus |
| abacus | frame with balls for calculating |
| abate | to lessen, to subside |
| abdication | giving up control, authority |
| abdomen | stomach and bowels |
| aberration | straying away from what is normal |
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abhor | to hate, to detest |
| abide | be faithful to; endure |
| abjure | promise or swear to give up |
| abraded | rubbed off, worn away by friction |
| abrasion | rubbing, scraping, wearing off |
| abrogate | repeal or annul by authority |
| abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend; obscure |
| abundant | plentiful |
| abut | border on |
| abysmal | bottomless, extreme |
| acarpous | effete, no longer fertile, worn out |
| accentuate | give more force or attention to |
| acclaimed | welcomed with shouts and approval |
| accolade | praise, approval |
| accretion | the growing of separate things into one |
| acquiesce in | agree (without protest) |
| acquisition | something acquired, acquirin |
| adamant | kind of stone; inflexible |
| adhere | remain faithful, stick fast to |
| adhesion | adhering, support |
| adjacent | lying near, next |
| admonitory | containing warning |
| adorn | add beauty; decorate |
| adulteration | making unpure, poorer in quality |
| affinity | close connection, relationship |
| aggravate | make worse; irritate |
| agile | active, quick-moving |
