® Amicable: friendly: The dispute was settled in an amicable manner with no harsh words.
® Amnesty: pardon: When his first child was born, the kind granted amnesty to all in prison.
® Ample: abundant: There is ample room for the children on the back seat.
® Amplify: to make large, more powerful: We need a microphone to amplify his voice because the room is much too large for us to hear him without one.
® Amputate: cut off part of body, prune: When the doctors decided to amputate his leg to prevent the spread of gangrene, he cried that he preferred death to incapacity.
® Analgesic: causing insensitivity to pain: The analgesic qualities of this lotion will provide temporary relief.
® Analogous: similar: He called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.
® Analogy: similarity, parallelism: Your analogy is not a good one because the two situations are not similar.
® Anarchy: absence of governing body, state of disorder: The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy.
® Ancillary: serving as an aid or accessory, auxiliary: In an ancillary capacity he was helpful; however, he could not be entrusted with leadership.
® Animated: lively: Her animated expression indicated a keenness of intellect.
® Animosity: active enmity: I could sense the animosity between then.
® Annihilate: destroy: The enemy in its revenge tried to annihilate the entire population.
® Anonymous: having no name: He tried to ascertain the identity of the writer of the anonymous letter.
® Antagonism: active resistance: The employer’s plan, provoked antagonism of the workers.
® Anticlimax: letdown in thought or emotion: After the fine performance in the first act, the rest of the play was an anticlimax.
® Antipathy: aversion, dislike: His extreme antipathy to dispute caused him to avoid argumentative discussions with his friends.
® Antithesis: contrast, direct opposite of or to: This tyranny was the antithesis of all that he had hoped for, and he fought it with all his strength.