Pair of Words: Meaning and Sentence from All, Awl to Allusion, Assay
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List of Pair of Words: A
All
Meaning: everyone (of) , or the complete amount or number (of) , or the whole (of)
Sentence: All animals have to eat in order to live.
Awl
Meaning: a small, pointed tool for making holes in wood, leather, etc.
Sentence: That awl causes loud noise.
Allusive
Meaning: containing a lot of allusions
Sentence: Her music is allusive.
Alleviate
Meaning: to make something bad such as pain or problems less severe
Sentence: The drugs did nothing to alleviate her pain/suffering.
Atheist
Meaning: someone who believes that God or gods do not exist
Sentence: I know an atheist who says ′ Oh god!
Agnostic
Meaning: someone who does not know, or believes that it is impossible to know, whether a god exists
Sentence: Although he was raised a Catholic, he was an agnostic for most of his adult life.
Altogether
Meaning: completely or in total
Sentence: The government ought to abolish the tax altogether.
All Together
Meaning: all at the same time
Sentence: The last time we were all together was in 1999.
Ambiguous
Meaning: having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally
Sentence: His reply to my question was somewhat ambiguous.
Ambivalent
Meaning: having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel
Sentence: I felt very ambivalent about leaving home.
Appraise
Meaning: to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success or needs
Sentence: At the end of each teaching practice, trainee teachers are asked to appraise their own performance.
Apprise
Meaning: to tell someone about something
Sentence: The President has been apprised of the situation.
Avenge
Meaning: to do harm to or punish the person responsible for something bad done to you
Sentence: He swore he would avenge his brother՚s death.
Aviary
Meaning: a large cage or closed space in which birds are kept as pets
Sentence: I have an aviary with 17 birds.
Apiary
Meaning: a place where people keep bees, especially a collection of hives kept providing honey
Sentence: I once visited an apiary where there were numerous cardboard boxes scattered around.
Auger
Meaning: a tool consisting of a twisted rod of metal fixed to a handle, used for making large holes in wood or in the ground
Sentence: In order to measure the pH directly; the kit includes a plastic auger to perforate the ground.
Augur
Meaning: to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future
Sentence: Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs a shift in government policy?
Attack
Meaning: to try to hurt or defeat using violence
Sentence: He was attacked and seriously injured by a gang of youths.
Apposite
Meaning: suitable and right for the occasion
Sentence: It is, however, apposite to note that this process will continue in the year ahead.
Affluence
Meaning: having a lot of money or owning a lot of things
Sentence: What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
Amoral
Meaning: without moral principles Sentence: The spies are younger, less jaded but equally cynical and still operating in a wholly amoral world.
Adverse
Meaning: having a negative or harmful effect on something
Sentence: The match has been canceled due to adverse weather conditions.
Averse
Meaning: strongly disliking or opposed to
Sentence: Few MPs are averse to the attention of the media.
Allusion
Meaning: something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person
Sentence: Her novels are packed with literary allusions.
Assay
Meaning: an examination or testing
Sentence: A positive result has been obtained in a mouse lymphoma assay.