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Adventitious, advert, advocacy, aegis, aerie, affected/affectation

My adventitious meet with a foreign-returned friend made me realize how one starts putting on an affected manner and starts advocating the positives of studying outside. He adverted to the topic to the effect of making one think that the way the aerie is to the large hawk, the other country becomes to him. And all the listeners wore an aegis so as not to get brainwashed.

Affront, agglomeration, aggrandize, aggregate/aggregation, agog

That anything is an agglomeration of molecules left her agog and she started aggregating more matter on the same. This interest aggrandized her image in her teacher’s eyes and made the teacher forget the incident which was had been taken as a personal affront was forgiven.

Alacrity, alcove, alimentary, alimony, allay, allegory, alloy (v)

Her alacrity at reaching the alcove not only had an alimentary effect on her lazy attitude, but also allayed her fears. Now she didn’t care for any alimony and her thinking was not alloyed by expectation and undue hopes. Her story was an allegory of laziness, fear and positivity.

Altercation, amalgamate, amazon, ambivalence, ambrosia, ambulatory

The amazon though hurt in the war was ambulatory, in spite of her earlier enjoying food equivalent to ambrosia. But the Doctor’s ambivalence regarding whether she should walk or not resulted in an altercation between her and the Doctor. Then she decided that his knowledge was just amalgamated (unite in one body, combine) from book and not experience.

Amenable, ameliorate

The employee was amenable to the manager’s suggestions to ameliorate his career.

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Amnesty (n), amoral, amok, amulet, anachronism, analgesic, anarchy, anathema(tize), ancillary

The king’s amoral attitude made his countrymen run amok and his laws that were an anachronism felt like anathema. They approached the local Godmother who gave them an amulet which had analgesic qualities. Thankfully, they granted amnesty to the King, otherwise the country would be in anarchy. However, they decided that an ancillary body of Government is required.

Animadversion, animus, anneal, annotate, annuity, annul, anodyne, anoint, antagonism, antecede

The critics’ animadversion to the director’s movies led to animus between the director and critics. However, the way a glass becomes stronger on annealing, they annotating increased his annuity. His strong attitude served as an anodyne the way anointing an ointment would heal a wound. In this way the nasty remarks were annulled. This antagonism that anteceded his success thus proved useful.

Antecedents, antediluvian, anthropoid, anthology, anthropologist, anthropomorphic, antipathy

Seeing the large anthropoid fossil of an ape, the explorer guessed that in antediluvian creature must have been much evolved. He tried to search for more info, but alas, only to realize that he was looking at an anthology. He could not trace the antecedent of the creature and the reason for its anthropomorphic characteristics. Even though he was an anthropologist, he felt an antipathy to the subject suddenly.

Aphasia, aphorism (aphoristic), aplomb, apocalyptic, apocryphal (2), apolitical, apologist, apostate

The wife entered her new home and handled issues with aplomb. She refused to become an apostate by compromising on her religious belief in spite of apocryphal attempts for the apocryphal change thus rebelling the apocalyptic predictions of society. The in-laws remained apolitical and were neither an apologist nor alleged anything. Thus, was born the famous aphorism, ‘to each his own’. She even went out of her way to help another who suffered periods of aphasia due to acute throat infection.

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Abysmal, abyss, acclivity, accord, accost, accoutre, accretion, accede

The abysmal ignorance of driving techniques led Ricky to drive the car on an acclivity and then directly into an abyss. The other passengers acceded that he must be accoutred with driving skills and safety components, lest leave alone the Police, but the guards at heaven accost him due to the accretion of risks to himself and others. Up there, the guards were in complete accord.

Accrue, acerbity, acidulous, acquiesce, acquittal, acrid, actuarial, acrimonious, acuity

The economics man looked at everything in life with actuarial lenses and did allowed insurances to accrue. However, he invited acrimonious opinions and acidulous remarks from others and finally charges. However, his acuity in logic and reasoning led to his acquittal, without any acrid views from the public and everyone acquiesced to this judgment. After days his acerbity (bitterness of temper and speech) was washed away.

Acute..adj..quickly perceptive, keen, brief and severe

The acute young doctor realized immediately that the gradual deterioration of her patient’s once acute hearing was due to a chronic illness, not an acute one.

Addendum, addle, adherent, adjunct, adjuration, admonish, adroit

On the adjuration of Mr.X to youngsters to stay in India saying MS is just an adjunct to work and nothing more, the academic experts admonished him regarding his reasoning. That addled (muddled) even those who had been adherents worse than how an addled (rotten) tomato could addle (drive crazy) a cook. With his ‘adroit’ efforts, he could write not only a book on screwing up but also an addendum of personal experiences as well.

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Abdicate, abet, abeyance, abject, abjure, abnegation, abominate

There was once was a minister who lived in such luxury. However, he abetted an underworld don in smuggling ammunition into the country. Soon, it came out in the open and he was forced to abdicate his position. Even though the court order was in abeyance, the public abominated him and his abnegation of wealth and family apart from abjuring from his portfolio landed him in an abject situation.

Abrade, abrogate, abscission, absolve, abstemious, abstruse

Since the poor fellow could not understand the abstruse concept of gravity, the teacher threatened that his not understanding this basic concept is as harmful as an abscission of a live hand which did the fellow no good but abrade his mind. Then he thought that if he would have been Newton he would have abrogated the concept and hence the goodwill of the future generations would have absolved him of this sin. The teacher read his thoughts and could not help but follow an abstemious (also, temperate) diet for the day.

Gratuitous, predispose, theocracy, saturnine, surmise
It was one fine morning that I decided to get up on time. The thought that I had to get out of bed made the morning saturnine. Then fearing that I may get predisposed to the luxury of late mornings and auto-rides, I pulled off the covers and rose out of bed. My eyes fell on today’s newspaper and I surmised that there would be some good stuff to read. Highlighted was an article on theocratic practices in ‘Blindogaon’. Pigs were worshipped and given special gooey breakfast which seemed completely gratuitous.

Stygian, arroyo, beatific, mammoth
I was walking along a street that might as well be an arroyo. On one side there were mammoth houses with beatific gardens and on the other there urchins so thin and drawn, surviving their stygian fate.

Foreshadow, recidivism, retrograde, odoriferous, attrition
By sending criminals to remand homes, to live with more criminals, one can foreshadow the continuation of retrograde characteristics and recidivism. Thus the atmosphere will become odoriferous and the leftover value-system will suffer attrition.