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anticipate,
anticipated,
anticipating,
anticipates.transitive
verbs
to feel or realize beforehand; foresee; to look
forward to, especially with pleasure; expect
anticipatable, anticipatory.adjectives
anticipator.noun
anamorphic.adjective
having, producing, or designating different optical
magnification along mutually perpendicular-radii.(an
anamorphic lens)
alchemy.noun
a medieval (related to or belonging to the Middle
Ages 476 – 1453 A.D.) chemical philosophy
having as its asserted
aims the transmutation of base
metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea;
a seemingly magical power or process of transmuting
alchemical.or.alchemic.adjective
alchemist.noun
a practitioner of alchemy
alchemistic.or.alchemistical.adjective
adopt,
adopted,
adopting,
adopts.transitive
verbs
to take into one's family through legal means
and raise as one's own child; to take up and make one's own (adopt a new
idea, a new technique)
adoptable.adjective
adopter, adoption.nouns
appreciation.noun
recognition
of the quality, value, significance, or magnitude of people and things;
a judgment or opinion, especially a favorable one; an expression of gratitude;
awareness or delicate perception, especially of aesthetic
qualities or values; a rise in value or price, especially over time
appreciate, appreciated,
appreciating,
appreciates.transitive
verbs
to be thankful or show gratitude for (I really
appreciate your help); to recognize the quality, significance, or magnitude
of (appreciated their freedom); to be fully aware of or sensitive to; realize
(I appreciate your problems); .to admire greatly; value; to raise in value
or price, especially over time
intransitive
use.to increase in value or price,
especially over time
appreciator.noun
appreciatory.adjective
appreciative.adjective
capable of or showing appreciation
appreciatively.adverb
avenge,
avenged,
avenging,
avenges.transitive
verbs
to inflict a punishment or penalty in return for;
revenge (avenge a severe wrong done); to take vengeance on behalf of (avenged
their wronged parents)
avenger.noun
avengingly.adverb
vengeance.noun
infliction of punishment in return for a wrong
committed; retribution
idiom.(with
a vengeance;with great violence or force; to an extreme degree {December
has turned cold with a vengeance})
amends.plural.noun-(used
with a singular or plural verb)
recompense
for grievance or injury (the
new law offers no amends to victims of crime; you must make amends to them
for the insult; reparation-
amend,
amended,
amending,
amends.verbs
transitive use-to
change for the better; improve (amended the earlier proposal so as to make
it more comprehensive); to remove the faults or errors in; correct; to
alter (a legislative measure, for example) formally by adding, deleting,
or rephrasing
intransitive use.to
better one's conduct; reform
auspicious.adjective
attended by favorable circumstances; propitious-(an
auspicious time to ask for a raise in salary); favorable; marked by success;
prosperous
auspiciously.adverb
auspiciousness.noun
adroit.adjective
dexterous;
deft;
skillful and adept
under pressing conditions
adroitly.adverb
adroitness.noun
asylum.noun
an institution for the care of people, especially
those with physical or mental impairments, who require organized supervision
or assistance; a place offering protection and safety; a shelter; a place,
such as a church, formerly constituting an inviolable
refuge for criminals or debtors; the protection afforded by a sanctuary;
protection and immunity from extradition
granted by a government to a political refugee from another country
atavism.noun
the reappearance of a characteristic
in an organism after several generations of absence; throwback; the return
of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence
atavist.noun
atavistic.adjective
atavistically.adverb
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