| A | B |
|---|
| abase | lower;humiliate |
| abash | to embarrass |
| abate | to lessen |
| abdominate | to loathe;hate |
| abstruse | profound;difficult to understand |
| accentuate | to stress:emphasize |
| acclivity | sharp incline of a hill |
| accolade | award; honor |
| accost | to approach and speak to |
| adroit | skillful |
| adulate | to flatter and praise too much |
| adulterate | to make impure |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow by disclosing only partially |
| adverse | hostile; opposed; unfavorable |
| advocate | to urge; recommend |
| aesthetic | artistic;pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful |
| affected | fake (a-faked-ted) |
| affinity | attraction |
| affluent | rich |
| affray | public brawl |
| agape | open-mouthed |
| aghast | horrified |
| agile | able to move in a quick and easy fashion |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness |
| alias | a false name |
| alimentary | supplying nourishment |
| allay | to sooth |
| alleged | stated w/out proof |
| alleviate | to make more bearable |
| allude | to refer indirectly |
| allusion | refering to something |
| altercation | a violent dispute |
| amass | to collect |
| ambulatory | able to walk |
| ameliorate | to improve a bad situation |
| amity | peaceful relations;friends |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| amok | freaked out and violently pissed off |
| anthropoid | humanlike |
