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Abomination
- noun - a person who is loathsome or disgusting
- an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; "his treatment of the children is an abomination"
- hate coupled with disgust
Absentation
- - The act of absenting one's self.
Abstraction
- noun - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
Academician
- noun - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
- an educator who works at a college or university
- someone elected to honorary membership in an academy
Acceptation
- noun - acceptance as true or valid
- the accepted meaning of a word
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"
Acclamation
- noun - enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved"
Acclimation
- noun - adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment)
Acetylation
- noun - the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound; "the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin"
Ack-Ack Gun
- noun - artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes