aggrandize
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increase scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
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aggressiveness
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feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack; quality of being bold and enterprising
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allegory
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symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
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amenable
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responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
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annuity
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annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
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anoint
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apply oil or similar substance to; put oil on during religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration.
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antecedents
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preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background
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apologist
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person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as doctrine, policy, or institution
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apprenticeship
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term during which one learns a trade from skilled worker; service or legal condition of an apprentice
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atavism
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resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after passage of two or more generations
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attached
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fastened together; joined by wall, especially by sharing a wall with another building; not freestanding
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attrition
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gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment
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auroral
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characteristic of dawn; dawning, eastern, like new beginning; relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras
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authority
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jurisdiction; power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge; government
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