Words and meanings - letter A
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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| Giving up control authority | Abdication |
| Abnormal, deviant | Aberrant |
| Straying away from what is normal | Aberration |
| Rough, suitable for grinding or polishing (such as sandpaper); causing irritation or annoyance | Abrasive |
| Repeal or annul by authority | Abrogate |
| Difficult to comprehend obscure | Abstruse |
| Border on | Abut |
| Bottomless extreme | Abysmal |
| Welcomed with shouts and approval | Acclaimed |
| Praise approval | Accolade |
| Sour; harsh or severe | Acerbic |
| Kind of stone inflexible | Adamant |
| Containing warning | Admonitory |
| Add beauty decorate | Adorn |
| Making unpure poorer in quality | Adulteration |
| Opposing, harmful | Adverse |
| Polite and friendly | Affable |
| Close connection relationship | Affinity |
| Make greater; exaggerate | Aggrandize |
| Make worse irritate | Aggravate |
| Active quick-moving | Agile |
| Eager/excited | Agog |
| Eager and cheerful readiness | Alacrity |
| Cheerful or speedy willingness | Alacrity |
| Although, even though | Albeit |
| Duty support loyalty | Allegiance |
| Make (pain) easier to bear | Alleviate |
| Lessen, make easier to endure | Alleviate |
| Reserved indifferent | Aloof |
| Mix combine unite societies | Amalgamate |
| Blend, merge, or unite | Amalgamate |
| Doubtful uncertain | Ambiguous |
| Having both of two contrary meanings | Ambivalent |
| Improve make better | Ameliorate |
| Improve; make better or more bearable | Ameliorate |
| Pain relief; inability to feel pain | Analgesia |
| Severe suffering | Anguish |
| Strong dislike | Animosity |
| Rub or sprinkle oil on; make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone | Anoint |
| Make hostile or unfriendly | Antagonize |
| Direct opposing | Antithetical |
| Brutal racial discrimination | Apartheid |
| Self-confidence | Aplomb |
| Of questionable authenticity; false | Apocryphal |
| Deification glorification to godliness | Apotheosis |