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Accordion
- noun - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Accosting
- verb - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- Greeted
- speak to someone
Accredits
- verb - ascribe an achievement to; "She was not properly credited in the program"
- grant credentials to; "The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution"; "recognize an academic degree"
- provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
Accreting
- verb - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"
- grow together (of plants and organs); "After many years the rose bushes grew together"
Accretion
- noun - (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- Any gradual increase in size as through growth or external addition.
- something contributing to growth or increase; "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"
Accretive
- adjective - growing by accretion
Accursing
- verb - curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
Alchemies
- noun - a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
- the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together"
Alchemise
- verb - alter (elements) by alchemy
Alchemist
- noun - one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone