VOCABULARY
ONE WORD - A SMALL COLLECTION
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Abdicate - Renounce a
throne, high office or dignity
Abolish- Do away with
Accelerate - To move faster
Accomplice - One association with another
especially in wrong -doing
Acoustics- Science of the production , transmission
,reception and effect of sound
Acrobat - One who performs gymnastics feats
Adolescence- The period of life form puberty to
maturity
Actuary - One who calculates insurance and annuity
premium etc.
Adulterate- Make impure by the addition of inferior
substance
Aggression- Unprovoked attack of one country by
another
Amnesty- General pardon
Abattoir- A building where animals are killed for
meal(or slaughterhouse)
Ad hoc- Made for a particular purpose
Aeronautics- The Science of the operation and
flight of aircraft
Aesthete- A person with a highly developed sense of
beauty
Agnostic- One who believes that nothing can be
known about God
Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces
Alibi - It is Latin for elsewhere. It is actually a
plea of having been elsewhere at the time of commission of an act.
But it is now used in the sense of excuse. Example- He offered
no alibi for his
absence from duty.
Alimony- Compensatory allowance given to wife after
divorce
Allergic- Allergy means , a heightened sensitivity
to substance as food, medicine etc. Allergic means having an aversion to. He is allergic to hard work.
Altruist- One who is habitually kind to others
Alumnus- A former student of a school or college
Ambivalent- The word means simultaneous attraction
to-words and repulsion from an object, person or action. The attitude
of education Indians to love-marriages is ambivalent
Anachronism- That which appears to be in the wrong
period
Anarchy - Lawlessness and disorder
caused by absence of control
Anecdote - A Short interesting or
amusing story
Anthology- A collection of poems or writings
Aphorism- (or maxim) A wise saying in a few
words
Aphrodisiac- A medicine causing sexual
excitement
Apiary- A place where bees are kept
Apprentice- A person who works under someone to
learn that person's skill
Arboreal- Those who live in trees
Armistice- (or cease-fire or truce )An agreement to
stop fighting
Ascetic- One who avoids physical pleasures and
comforts
Astrology- The art of understanding the influence of
heavenly bodies
Astronomy- Scientific study of heavenly bodies
Aviary - A place for keeping birds
