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The document defines a series of words beginning with A, providing the definition and parts of speech for each. Some key words defined include: - Abate: to reduce or lower in rank, reputation, or estimation - Abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, or responsibility, especially formally - Abet: to encourage or assist someone to commit a crime - Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension - Abject: extremely bad, degrading, or hopeless - Abjure: to renounce or reject solemnly The document consists of short 1-2 sentence definitions for a variety of words starting with A related to lowering, renouncing

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The document defines a series of words beginning with A, providing the definition and parts of speech for each. Some key words defined include: - Abate: to reduce or lower in rank, reputation, or estimation - Abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, or responsibility, especially formally - Abet: to encourage or assist someone to commit a crime - Abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension - Abject: extremely bad, degrading, or hopeless - Abjure: to renounce or reject solemnly The document consists of short 1-2 sentence definitions for a variety of words starting with A related to lowering, renouncing

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ABASE

ABASH ABATE

to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade,so as to

hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble


To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly

a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. 1. To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen. See Synonyms at decrease.2. To deduct from an amount; subtract. 3. Law a. To put an end to. b. To make void.

ABDICATE:

to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim,responsibility, or the like, to give up

especially in a formal manner:

ABET: Encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offense

- he was not guilty of murder but was guilty of aiding and abetting others Encourage or assist someone to commit (a crime) - we are aiding and abetting this illegal traffic ABEYANCE: A state of temporary disuse or suspension

- matters were held in abeyance pending further inquiries


temporary inactivity

ABJECT:

Extremely bad, unpleasant, and degrading,

Completely without pride or dignity, utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched

ABJURE:

1 : to renounce upon oathb 2 to reject solemnly

Solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim) - his refusal to abjure the Catholic faith

ABLUTION:
ABNEGATION:

a : the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)

The act of renouncing or rejecting something

- abnegation of political law-making power Self-denial ABROGATE:

to abolish by formal or official means; annul by anauthoritative act; repeal: to abrogate a law.

2. to put aside; put an end to.

ABSCISSION :

The act of cutting off.

Botany. The shedding of leaves, flowers, or fruits following the formation of the abscission zone.

ABSCOND:

To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.

ABSOLVE: : to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt


Set or declare (someone) free from blame

ABSTEMIOUS: Not self-indulgent, esp. when eating and drinking

- We only had a bottle. Very abstemious of you.



sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life. sparing: an abstemious diet.

ABSTRUSE: Difficult to understand; obscure

ABUT: : to touch along a border or with a projecting part <landabuts on the road>
2 a : to terminate at a point of contactb : to lean for support

ABYSMAL:

1. Resembling an abyss in depth; unfathomable.

2. Very profound; limitless: abysmal misery. 3. Very bad: an abysmal performance.

ACCEDE: Assent or agree to a demand, request, or treaty

- the authorities did not accede to the strikers' demands Assume an office or position - he acceded to the post of director in September Become a member of a community or organization - Albania acceded to the IMF in 1990

ACCLAIM:
to welcome or salute with shouts or sounds of joy andapproval; applaud: to acclaim the conquering heroes. 2. to announce or proclaim with enthusiastic approval: toacclaim the new king.

ACCLIVITY:

ascent: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" n. - slope upward. acclivitous, acclivous, adj.

ACCOST: To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. VETERAN: PLETHORA:
A person who has had long experience in a particular field

An excess of (something)

ACCOUTRE: : to provide with equipment or furnishings


To outfit and equip, as for military duty.

ACCRETION: Asset growth through addition or expansion

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