| A | B |
|---|
| attest | v. testify; bear witness |
| attribute | n. essential quality |
| attribute | v. ascribe; explain |
| attrition | n. gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment |
| atypical | adj. not normal |
| audacious | adj. daring; bold |
| audit | n. examinaiton of accounts |
| augment | v. increase; add to |
| augury | n. omen; prophecy |
| august | adj. impressive; majestic |
| aureole | n. sun's corona; halor |
| auroral | adj. pertaining to the aurora borealis |
| auspicious | adj. favoring success |
| austere | adj. forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented |
| authenticate | v. prove genuine |
| authoritarian | adj. subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will |
| authoritative | adj. having the witht of authority; premptory and dictatorial |
| autocratic | adj. having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial |
| automaton | n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans |
| autonomous | adj. self-governing |
| autopsy | n. examination of a dead body; postmortem |
| auxiliary | adj. offering or providing help; additinal or subsidiary |
| avalanche | n. great mass of falling snow and ice |
| avarice | n. greediness for wealth |
| avenge | v. take vengeance for something (or on behalf of someone) |
| aver | v. state confidently |
| averse | adj. relunctant; disinclined |
| aversion | n. firm dislike |
| avert | v. prevent; turn away |
| aviary | n. enclosure for birds |
| avid | adj. greedy; eager for |
| avocation | n. secondary or minor occupation |
| avow | v. declare openly |
| avuncular | adj. like an uncle |
