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Aperitifs
- noun - alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer
Aperitive
- - Serving to open; aperient.
Aphrodite
- noun - goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus
Apogamies
- noun - (botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
Apologies
- noun - a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
- a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; "he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess"
Apologise
- verb - acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
Apologist
- noun - a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
Apologize
- verb - acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
Appalling
- verb - an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"
- awful
- causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
- fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
- strike with disgust or revulsion;
Appealing
- verb - (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play"
- able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"
- be attractive to; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
- challenge (a decision); "She appealed the verdict"
- cite as an authority; resort to; "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"
- take a court case to a higher court for review; "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"