ABASH
Meaning: to make ashamed; to embarrass
Sentence: They tried not to be abashed by the unfamiliar luxury.
Synonyms: disconcert, rattle
Antonyms: soothe
ABHOR
Meaning: Regard with disgust and hatred.
ABORTIVE
Meaning: Failing to produce the intended result.
ABSOLUTE
Meaning: Not qualified or diminished in any way; total.
ABSTINENT
Meaning: Refraining from an activity or from the consumption of something, especially alcohol.
ABSTRACT
Meaning: Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
ABYSMAL
Meaning: Extremely bad; appalling.
ACCOLADE
Meaning: An award or privilege granted as a special honour or as an acknowledgement of merit.
ACERBIC
Meaning: (especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
ADDRESS
Meaning: to speak or write to someone:
AMBIENCE
Meaning: the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu
AMENITY
Meaning: any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure
AMNESTY
Meaning: a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
AMORAL
Meaning: having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong
ANGUISH
Meaning: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
ANOMALY
Meaning: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
ANTIPATHY
Meaning: a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
ANTITHESIS
Meaning: opposition; contrast
APARTHEID
Meaning: (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population.
APOCALYPSE
Meaning: any of a class of Jewish or Christian writings that appeared from about 200 b.c. to a.d. 350 and were assumed to make revelations of the ultimate divine purpose.
APOCRYPHAL
Meaning: of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
APPREHENSIVE
Meaning: uneasy or fearful about something that might happen:
ARCANE
Meaning: known or understood by very few
ARDUOUS
Meaning: requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult
ARISTOCRATIC
Meaning: characteristic of an aristocrat; having the manners, values, or qualities associated with the aristocracy
ASCENDANCY
Meaning: the state of being in the ascendant; governing or controlling influence; domination.
ATHEIST
Meaning: someone who does not believe in any god or gods, or who believes that no god or gods exist
ATTRITION
Meaning: gradually making something weaker and destroying it, especially the strength or confidence of an enemy
AUDACITY
Meaning: boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety
AUSPICIOUS
Meaning: promising success; propitious; opportune
AUTOCRATIC
Meaning: pertaining to or of the nature of autocracy or of an autocrat
AVUNCULAR
Meaning: of or relating to an uncle
AXIOM
Meaning: a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
