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authentic, a. genuine, trustworthy, authoritative, credible.
authenticate, v. verify, attest, confirm.
authentication, n. verification, attestation, confirmation.
author, n. creator, originator, father; _litterateur_, writer.
authority, n. dominion, jurisdiction, authorization, right; prestige, influence, ascendency, supremacy; precedent; justification, warrant; permission, sanction, permit, license, warranty; credibility, reliability, trustworthiness. a.s.sociated Word: purview.
authorize, v. empower, commission; sanction, warrant, justify, confirm.
authorless, a. anonymous.
autocracy, n. absolutism, despotism, dictators.h.i.+p; self government, autonomy.
autocratic, a. absolute, despotic, arbitrary.
automatic, a. self-propelling, self-moving; involuntary, mechanical.
autopsy, n. necropsy, post-mortem examination.
auxiliary, n. a.s.sistant, coadjutor, helper.
avarice, n. cupidity.
avaricious, a. covetous, greedy.
average, a. medium, ordinary, mediocre, middling.
averse, a. disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath.
aversion, n. dislike, antipathy, disinclination, loathing, abhorrence.
avid, a. eager, greedy, desirous.
avidity, n. eagerness, greediness, intense desire.
avoid, v. evade, shun, elude, eschew, s.h.i.+rk, parry.
avoidance, n. evasion, eluding, eschewing, parrying.
awaken, v. wake, awake, rouse, arouse, excite.
aware, a. cognizant, conscious, apprised, mindful.
away, adv. hence, absent, gone, aside, off; (Colloq.) on, uninterruptedly.
awe, n. veneration, reverence.--v. overawe, intimidate.
awful, a. appalling, terrible, dreadful, frightful, grewsome, horrible, shocking, heinous, flagrant; awe-inspiring, majestic; (Slang) immoderate, great, serious, flagrant, egregious, excessive.
awfully, adv. fearfully, dreadfully; (Slang) very, excessively, extremely, exceedingly.
awkward, a. clumsy, ungraceful, bungling, maladroit, gawky, inelegant, ungainly, loutish, unskillful, unwieldy, uncourtly; embarra.s.sing. Antonyms: graceful, dexterous, deft, courtly, elegant, adroit, clever.
awning, n. sun-shade, canopy, baldaquin, tilt.
awry, a. distorted, wry, crooked, asquint, askant, perverse.
ax, n. adz, mattock, broadax, battleax, dolabra, hatchet, poleax, bipennis.
axiom, n. truism; postulate.
axle, n. arbor, axletree, spindle (of a wheel), axis; gudgeon.
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Baa, n. bleat, bleating.--v. bleat.
babble, v. prattle, gabble; murmur, purl. See talk.
babble, n. prattle, gabble, chatter, prating; murmur, purl.
babbler, n. prater, chatterer, prattler, tattler.
baby, n. infant, babe, suckling, nursling. See child.
baby, v. humor, fondle, indulge, coddle, pet, cosset.
baby, a. infantine, infantile, babyish.
babyhood, n. infancy.
bachelor, n. celibate.
bachelorhood, n. bachelors.h.i.+p, bachelorism, celibacy.
back, n. reverse; posteriors, fundament, b.u.t.tocks, seat, rump, breech; ridge. a.s.sociated Words: supine, resupine, resupination, dorsigerous, dorsiferous, crick, dorsiparous, _dos-a-dos_, tergiferous, lumbago, notalgia, lumbar, aitchbone, loins, dorsic.u.mbent.
back, a. posterior, dorsal, notal, tergal, neural; remote, distant, frontier; rear, reverse.
back, adv. backward, rearward; in arrear; in return, in rest.i.tution, in requital.
back, v. support, second, maintain, abet, subsidize, cooperate, with; mount; indorse.
