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Ambagious
- adjective - roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Ambiguous
- adjective - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
- having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
- open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
Ambitions
- noun - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
- a strong drive for success
- have as one's ambition
Ambitious
- adjective - having a strong desire for success or achievement
- requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"
Amblypoda
- - A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Ambystoma
- noun - type genus of the Ambystomatidae
Ametabola
- - A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
Amorphous
- adjective - having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"
- lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies
- without real or apparent crystalline form; "an amorphous mineral"; "amorphous structure"
Amphibole
- noun - a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group
Amphiboly
- noun - an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes