"ALACRITY"

ALACRITY (Noun)
Meaning:

• promptness in response : cheerful readiness "accepted the invitation with alacrity"
• Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
• Speed or quickness; celerity.
  

"AGNOSTIC"

AGNOSTIC (Noun)
Meaning;

1. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
   One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
3. a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god
4. a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know

"AGRARIAN"

AGRARIAN (Adjective)
Meaning ;

1. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
2. Relating to agricultural or rural matters.
3. Intended to further agricultural interests: agrarian lobbyists.
4. Agrarians : A group of Southern American writers of the 1930s and 1940s who fostered an economic and cultural program for the South based on agriculture, in opposition to the industrial society of the North. The term can refer to any group that promotes the value of farm life and agricultural society.
5. relating to, or characteristic of farmers or their way of life.
   
   
   

"AFFLUENT"

AFFLUENT
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich.
• Plentiful; abundant.
• Flowing freely; copious.
• Prosperous or rich.
• flowing in abundance (affluent streams; affluent creativity)
  (see image : The affluent business man seems to be generous also..)
  Root: Middle English, from Latin affluent-, affluens, present participle of affluere to flow to, flow abundantly, from ad- + fluere to flow.

"AFFINITY"

AFFINITY
(Noun)
Meaning:

• A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship.
• An inherent similarity between persons or things.
• Biology. A relationship or resemblance in structure between species that suggests a common origin.
• Immunology. The attraction between an antigen and an antibody.
• Chemistry. An attraction or force between particles that causes them to combine.
• The quality or state of being alike (see images)
  Root: Middle English affinite, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French affinité, from Latin affinitas, from affinis bordering on, related by marriage, from ad- + finis end, border

"AFFECTATION"

AFFECTATION
(Noun)
Meaning:

• A show, pretense, or display
• Behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality.
• A particular habit, as of speech or dress, adopted to give a false impression.
• Artificial behavior adopted to impress others
• pretended behavior to make an impression
• The quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the case (see image: a woman of great affectation)
  

"AFFABLE"

AFFABLE
(Adjective)
Meaning

• Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable.
• Gentle and gracious: an affable smile.
• friendly
  (Kids are always affable to talk...)
  

"AESTHETIC"

AESTHETIC
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• Relating to the philosophy or theories of aesthetics.
• Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste: the aesthetic faculties.
• Characterized by a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
• Artistic: The play was an aesthetic success.
• Informal. Conforming to accepted notions of good taste.
• a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
  (isn't it an aesthetic work?)
  

"ADULTERATE"

ADULTERATE
(Verb)
Meaning:

• To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances
• alter or debase, often, for profit, to corrupt
• To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
  foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. Antonyms: clarify, clean, cleanse, distill, filter, free, purify, refine

"ADULATION"

ADULATION
(Noun)
Meaning:

• Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is
  merited.
• Excessive flattery or admiration.
• overenthusiastic praise (see image: The movie star received loads of adulation.)

"ADROIT"

ADROIT
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• Skillful, dexterous, clever,
• Skillful and adept under pressing conditions.
• Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance
  (See image; who is he??..Leonardo da Vinci ....His all masterpieces are true example of Adroitness)
  
  Root: Adroit comes from droit, which is French word for right (the opposite of left). Dexterous, which means pretty much the same thing as Adroit comes from dexter, which is the Latin word for Right. Right handed people once thought to be more dexterous &adroit than left handed people. In fact Left handed people were once thought to be downright evil or sinister, which is Latin word for left.
  
  To say Right handed People are better than left handed people would be considered Gauche , which means graceless, crude, socially awkward or clumsy. Gauche is the French word for left.A synonym for Gauche is Maladroit.
  

"ADMONISH"

ADMONISH
(Verb)
Meaning:

• To warn ....(Mother admonished (warned) child not to go out in night)
  
• to scold gently ...(Father again admonished (scolded) the child for doing that)
  
• to correct or caution critically. Admonish implies the giving of advice or a warning in order to rectify or avoid something
• To criticize for a fault or an offense, To criticize or scold. "Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly"

"ADAMANT"

ADAMANT
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
• An extremely hard substance.
• Unyielding; unbreakable. (see images both are adamant)
  
• Stubborn (adamant can be used for signifying someone's stubborn behavior also)

"ADAGE"

ADAGE
(Noun)
Meaning

• An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
• a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
• A brief statement or saying that contains a bit of truth.
  

"ACUTE"

ACUTE
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• sharp, shrewed,extremely sharp or intense
• Keenly perceptive or discerning
• Geometry : of an angle; less than 90 degrees; Having an acute angle: an acute triangle.
• Medicine: Having a rapid onset and following a short but severe course: acute disease. (Use this word only in figurative sense.... see image A Sharp Pain can be Called "Acute Pain" but a Sharp Knife can not")
  

"ACUMEN"

ACUMEN
(Noun)
Meaning:

• Keenness of Judgment.
• Mental sharpness
• ability to understand and reason
• Quick thinking or insight. (See image: This word is often associated with Business.."Business Acumen"....To turn1Rs. into 100 Rs. in a day requires lot of "Business Acumen")
  
• Root : Latin acmen, from acuere, to sharpen, from acus, needle

"ACRIMONIOUS"

ACRIMONIOUS
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• Full of spite, bitter, nasty
• Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.
• marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"
• Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous: (See Image: an acrimonious debate between the two candidates.)

"ACRID"

"ACRID"
(Adjective)



Meaning:

• Harsh, Like Acid.
• Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
• strong and sharp; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"
• harsh or corrosive in tone(see image 1) "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments". "her acrid remarks make her many enemies". {when you get Acrid comments from others you feel as if you are sitting on those (see image2)}

"ACQUIESCE"

ACQUIESCE
(Verb)
Meaning:

• To comply passively, to accept, to assent, to agree
• to acquiesce is to do something without objection -to do it quietly. you can not acquiesce on something noisily but quietly...
• To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (see image "lets Agree but remember "without any objection"......)
  

"ACERBIC"

ACERBIC
(Adjective)
Meaning:

• Bitter, sour, severe
• Sharp or biting, as in character or expression (see image acerbic comments = bitter comments =like bitter melon)
  
• harsh or corrosive in tone
• a barrage of acid comments
• Having a noticeably sharp pungent taste or smell