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| Question | Answer |
| Abdicate | fail to fulfill or undertake (a responsibility or duty). |
| Abhor | regard with disgust and hatred. |
| Adamant | refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind: he is adamant that he is not going to resign. |
| Adept | very skilled or proficient at something: |
| Aggrandize | increase the power, status, or wealth of: an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty. |
| Aggravate | make (a problem, injury, or offence) worse or more serious: military action would only aggravate the situation. |
| Aggregate | a whole formed by combining several separate elements: the council was an aggregate of three regional assemblies. |
| Ail | trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body: exercise is good for whatever ails one. |
| Akin | of similar character: something akin to gratitude overwhelmed her | genius and madness are akin. |
| Aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant: they were courteous but faintly aloof | an aloof and somewhat austere figure. |
| Altruism | disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism. |
| Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning: ambiguous phrases. |
| Ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone: some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her | an ambivalent attitude to Europe. |
| Ameliorate | make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better: the reform did much to ameliorate living standards. |
| Amiable | having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner: the amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically. |
| Androgynous | partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex. a stunningly androgynous dancer. he used surgery and cosmetics to make his face look pasty and bizarrely androgynous. |
| Annex | add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document: the first ten amendments were annexed to the Constitution in 1791. |
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