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Word Smart - A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abate | to lessen in intensity or degree |
| Aberrant | deviating from the norm |
| Abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
| Abrogate | to abolish or annul by authority; put down |
| Abscission | act of cutting off or removing |
| Abscond | to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
| Abstain | to refrain from an activity |
| Accolade | an expression of praise an award |
| Accretion | growth, increase by successive addition, building up |
| Acerbic | having a sour or bitter taste or character |
| Acumen | quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
| Admonish | to reprove; to express warning or disapproval |
| Adroit | adept, dexterous |
| Adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration |
| Adulterate | to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
| Adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily |
| Advocate | to argue for or support a cause |
| Aesthetic | dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
| Aggrandize | to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater |
| Alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness |
| Alchemy | a magical or wonderful transformation |
| Alloy | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| Amalgamate | to combine several elements into a whole |
| Ambiguity | uncertainty in meaning |
| Ambivalence | the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings |
| Ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| Amenable | agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
| Anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
| Anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
| Anodyne | soothing |
| Anomaly | deviating from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
| Antagonize | to irritate or cause hostility |
| Antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| Antithetical | diametrically opposed, as in antithesis |
| Apathy | lack of interest or feeling |
| Apocryphal | of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious |
| Apogee | farthest of highest point; culmination; zenith |
| Apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause |
| Apotheosis | deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example |
| Apposite | appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos |
| Aprise | give notice to, inform |
| Approbation | an expression of approval or praise |
| Appropriate | to take for one's own use, confiscate |
| Arabesque | complex, ornate design |
| Arcane | mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates |
| Archaic | outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time |
| Arduous | strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort |
| Arrant | impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter |
| Arrest | to suspend; to engage |
| Articulate | to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly |
| Artless | completely without guile; natural, without artificiality |
| Ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
| Asperity | severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
| Aspersion | an act of defamation or maligning |
| Assiduous | diligent, hard-working |
| Assuage | to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
| Astringent | having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
| Attenuate | to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen |
| Audacious | daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| Augury | omen, portent, the reading of omens |
| August | majestic, venerable |
| Auspice | protection or support, patronage |
| Auspicious | favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous |
| Austere | without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
| Avarice | greed, especially for wealth |
| Aver | to state as a fact; to confirm or support |
| Axiom | a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying |
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