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Altar Boy
- noun - a boy serving as an acolyte
- Youngster assisting in a church service
Altarwise
- - In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
Alter Ego
- noun -
- a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself
Alterable
- adjective - (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe
- capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic; "alterable clothing"; "alterable conditions of employment"
Alterably
- - In an alterable manner.
Altercate
- verb - have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Alterings
- noun - the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
Alternacy
- - Alternateness; alternation.
Alternant
- - Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
Alternate
- adjective - be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
- every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired; "stems with alternate leaves"
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"
- someone who takes the place of another person