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This document contains a word list for words beginning with 'A' along with their definitions. There are over 100 words listed alphabetically from 'ascendancy' meaning dominant power or control to 'arboretum' meaning a place where trees are grown for scientific study. The word list covers a wide variety of topics and parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

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Word List For

This document contains a word list for words beginning with 'A' along with their definitions. There are over 100 words listed alphabetically from 'ascendancy' meaning dominant power or control to 'arboretum' meaning a place where trees are grown for scientific study. The word list covers a wide variety of topics and parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

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WORD LIST FOR ‘A’:

ASCENDANCY- POSITION OF HAVING DOMINANT POWER OR CONTROL

ASCETIC- NOT INVOLVING ONESELF IN PLEASURES

ASCRIBE- ASSIGN

ASININE- STUPID

ASKANCE- DOUBTFULLY

ASKEW- CROOKED

ASPERITY- HARSHNESS

ASPERSION- SLANDEROUS REMARK

ASSAY- TESTING

ASSIDUOUS- SHOWING CAREFUL & CONSTANT ATTENTION

ASUNDER- DIVIDE INTO PIECES

ASTRINGENT- SUBSTANCE USED MEDICALLY OR IN COSMETICS TO


CONTRACT TISSUE AND STOP BLEEDING

ASTRAL- FROM THE STARS

ASTIGMATISM- DEFECT IN EYES OR LENSES THAT PREVENTS CORRECT


FOCUSSING

ATAVISM- REAPPEARANCE IN A PERSON OF A CHARACTERISTIC THAT HAS


NOT BEEN SEEN IN HIS FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS

ATHEISTIC- NON BELEIVING

ATONE- IN AGREEMENT WITH, ACT IN A WAY THAT COMPENSATES FOR


PREVIOUS WRONG

ATROPHY- WASTE

ATTRITION- EROSION

ATYPICAL- NOT TYPICAL


AUDACIOUS- DARING

AUGURY- OMEN, SIGN, SIGNAL

AUREOLE- SUN’S CORONA

AUSTERE- STRICT, SEVERE

AUSTERITY- QUALITY OF BEING AUSTERE

AVARICE- GREED FOR WEALTH

AVER- STATE FIRMLY OR POSITIVELY

AVOCATION- SECONDARY OR MINOR OCCUPATION

AVOW- DECLARE

AVUNCULAR- OF OR LIKE AN UNCLE ESP. IN MANNER

AXIOM- BELIEVED TO BE TRUE WITHOUT PROOF OR ARGUMENT

AZURE- BRIGHT BLUE LIKE SKY

ANTAGONISTIC- HOSTILE

ANTEDILUVIAN- OF THE TIME BEFORE NOAH’S FLOOD

ANTHOLOGY- COLLECTION OF POEMS AND PROSE FROM THE SAME


AUTHOR OR SUBJECT

ANTHROPOID- MAN LIKE FORM

ANTHROPOPHORMIC- TREATING GODS, ANIMALS ETC AS HUMAN IN FORM


& PERSONALITY

ANTIPATHY- DISTASTE

ANVIL- IRON BLOCK

APATHETIC- SHOWING OR FEELING APATHY

APATHY- LACK OF INTEREST


APHASIA- TOTAL OR PARTIAL LOSS OF ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND OR SPEAK
A SPOKEN LANGUAGE

APHORISM- SHORT SAYING OR MAXIM

APLOMB- CONFIDENCE AND SELF-CONTROL

APOCALYPTIC- FORECASTING DRAMATIC EVENTS LIKE THOSE IN


APOCALYPSE

APOCRYPHAL- NOT GENUINE

APOLITICAL- NOT INTERSTED IN POLITICS

APOLOGIST- PERSON WHO DEFENDS A DOCTRINE BY LOGICAL ARGUMENT

APOPLEXY- SUDDEN INABILITY TO FEEL OR MOVE

APOSTATE - PERSON WHO RENOUNCES HIS FORMER BELIEFS ETC.

APOTHECARY- PERSON WHO SELLS MEDICAL GOODS

APOTHEGM-

APOTHEOSIS- MAKING OR BECOMING A GOD OR A SAINT

APPALL- TO OVERCOME WITH CONSTERNATION

APPARITION- STARTLING APPEARANCE

APPELLATION- TO TAG

APPOSITE- APPROPRIATE

APPREHEND- ARREST

APPROBATION- APPROVAL

APPURTENANCES- A SECONDARY OR LESS SIGNIFICANT THING

AQULINE- OF OR LIKE AN EAGLE

ARABLE- SUITABLE FOR PLOUGHING AND GROWING CROPS

ARBITER- JUDGE
ARTIFICE- DECPTION

ARROYO- A BROOK

ARGOT- WORDS OR PHRASES USED BY A GROUP AND NOT INTENDED TO BE


UNDERSTOOD BY OTHERS

ARIA- SONG FOR ONE VOICE

ARRAIGN- PROSECUTE, CHARGE

ARDOR- EXTREME VIGOUR OR INTENSITY

ARBOREAL- LIVING IN TREES

ARBORETUM- PLACE WHERE TREES ARE GROWN FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY

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