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abash - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: embarrassed, ashamed, shamefaced,
remorseful, conscience-stricken, mortified, humiliated, humbled, chagrined,
crestfallen, sheepish
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French abaïss- ; compare with
Old French esbaïss-, lengthened stem of esbaïr, from es- 'utterly' + baïr
'astound.'
abate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: subside, die down/away/out, lessen,
ease [off], let up, decrease, diminish, moderate, d
,Origin Middle English [in the legal sense 'put a stop to [a nuisance]']: from
Old French abatre 'to fell,' from a- [from Latin ad 'to, at'] + batre 'to beat'
[from Latin battere, battuere 'to beat'].
abdicate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: resign, retire, stand down, step down,
bow out, renounce the throne; archaicdemit ";the king abdicated in 1936";
resign from, relinquish, renounce, give up, surren
Origin mid 16th century: from Latin abdicat- 'renounced,' from the verb
abdicare, from ab- 'away, from' + dicare 'declare.'
aberrant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: deviant, deviating, divergent,
abnormal, atypical, anomalous, irregular; nonconformist, rogue; strange,
odd, peculiar, uncommon, freakish, quirky; twisted,
Origin mid 16th century: from Latin aberrant- 'wandering away,' from the
verb aberrare, from ab- 'away, from' + errare 'to stray.'
abeyance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms:in suspension, in a state of
suspension, in a state of dormancy, in a state of uncertainty, in remission;
pending, suspended, deferred
,Originlate 16th century [in the legal sense]: from Old French abeance
'aspiration to a title,' from abeer 'aspire after,' from a- 'toward' + beer 'to
gape.
abhor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔regard with disgust and hatred
synonyms: detest, hate, loathe, despise, execrate, regard with disgust,
shrink from, recoil from, shudder at; formalabominate ";I abhor the taste of
liver";
Origin late Middle English: from Latin abhorrere, from ab- 'away from' +
horrere 'to shudder.'
abjure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: renounce, relinquish, reject, forgo,
disavow, abandon, deny, repudiate, give up, wash one's hands of; eschew,
abstain from, refrain from; informalkick, pack in; disaffirm; literaryforsake;
formalforswear,
Origin late Middle English: from Latin abjurare, from ab- 'away' + jurare
'swear.'
ablution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the act of washing oneself [often used
Origin late Middle English: from Latin ablutio[n-], from abluere, from ab-
'away' + luere 'wash.' The original use was as a term in chemistry and
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, alchemy meaning 'purification by using liquids,' hence 'purification of the
body by washing' [mid 16th century].
abound - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms:be plentiful, be abundant, be
numerous, proliferate, superabound, be thick on the ground; informalgrow
on trees ";cafe
OriginMiddle English [in the sense 'overflow, be abundant']: from Old
French abunder, from Latin abundare 'overflow,' from ab- 'from' + undare
'surge' [from unda 'a wave']
aboveboard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔legitimate, honest, and open
synonyms: legitimate, lawful, legal, licit, honest, fair, open, frank, straight,
overt, candid, forthright, unconcealed, trustworthy, unequivocal;
informallegit, kosher, by the book, street legal, fair and square, square, on
the level, on the up and up, upfront
abrogate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: repeal, revoke, rescind, repudiate,
overturn, annul; disallow, cancel, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve,
countermand, declare null and void, disc
Origin early 16th century: from Latin abrogat- 'repealed,' from the verb
abrogare, from ab- 'away, from' + rogare 'propose a law.'
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abash - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: embarrassed, ashamed, shamefaced,
remorseful, conscience-stricken, mortified, humiliated, humbled, chagrined,
crestfallen, sheepish
Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French abaïss- ; compare with
Old French esbaïss-, lengthened stem of esbaïr, from es- 'utterly' + baïr
'astound.'
abate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: subside, die down/away/out, lessen,
ease [off], let up, decrease, diminish, moderate, d
,Origin Middle English [in the legal sense 'put a stop to [a nuisance]']: from
Old French abatre 'to fell,' from a- [from Latin ad 'to, at'] + batre 'to beat'
[from Latin battere, battuere 'to beat'].
abdicate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: resign, retire, stand down, step down,
bow out, renounce the throne; archaicdemit ";the king abdicated in 1936";
resign from, relinquish, renounce, give up, surren
Origin mid 16th century: from Latin abdicat- 'renounced,' from the verb
abdicare, from ab- 'away, from' + dicare 'declare.'
aberrant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: deviant, deviating, divergent,
abnormal, atypical, anomalous, irregular; nonconformist, rogue; strange,
odd, peculiar, uncommon, freakish, quirky; twisted,
Origin mid 16th century: from Latin aberrant- 'wandering away,' from the
verb aberrare, from ab- 'away, from' + errare 'to stray.'
abeyance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms:in suspension, in a state of
suspension, in a state of dormancy, in a state of uncertainty, in remission;
pending, suspended, deferred
,Originlate 16th century [in the legal sense]: from Old French abeance
'aspiration to a title,' from abeer 'aspire after,' from a- 'toward' + beer 'to
gape.
abhor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔regard with disgust and hatred
synonyms: detest, hate, loathe, despise, execrate, regard with disgust,
shrink from, recoil from, shudder at; formalabominate ";I abhor the taste of
liver";
Origin late Middle English: from Latin abhorrere, from ab- 'away from' +
horrere 'to shudder.'
abjure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: renounce, relinquish, reject, forgo,
disavow, abandon, deny, repudiate, give up, wash one's hands of; eschew,
abstain from, refrain from; informalkick, pack in; disaffirm; literaryforsake;
formalforswear,
Origin late Middle English: from Latin abjurare, from ab- 'away' + jurare
'swear.'
ablution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the act of washing oneself [often used
Origin late Middle English: from Latin ablutio[n-], from abluere, from ab-
'away' + luere 'wash.' The original use was as a term in chemistry and
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, alchemy meaning 'purification by using liquids,' hence 'purification of the
body by washing' [mid 16th century].
abound - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms:be plentiful, be abundant, be
numerous, proliferate, superabound, be thick on the ground; informalgrow
on trees ";cafe
OriginMiddle English [in the sense 'overflow, be abundant']: from Old
French abunder, from Latin abundare 'overflow,' from ab- 'from' + undare
'surge' [from unda 'a wave']
aboveboard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔legitimate, honest, and open
synonyms: legitimate, lawful, legal, licit, honest, fair, open, frank, straight,
overt, candid, forthright, unconcealed, trustworthy, unequivocal;
informallegit, kosher, by the book, street legal, fair and square, square, on
the level, on the up and up, upfront
abrogate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synonyms: repeal, revoke, rescind, repudiate,
overturn, annul; disallow, cancel, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve,
countermand, declare null and void, disc
Origin early 16th century: from Latin abrogat- 'repealed,' from the verb
abrogare, from ab- 'away, from' + rogare 'propose a law.'
