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Aerides
- noun - any orchid of the genus Aerides
Aerobes
- noun - an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life
Aethers
- noun - a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness
Affairs
- noun - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
- a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- matters of personal concern; "get his affairs in order"
- transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state"
Affects
- noun - act physically on; have an effect upon;
- connect closely and often incriminatingly;
- have an effect upon;
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;
- make believe with the intent to deceive;
- the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
Affines
- noun - (anthropology) kin by marriage
Affirms
- verb - establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant"
- say yes to
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"
Affixes
- noun - a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
- add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language"
- attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem"
- attach to; "affix the seal here"
Affords
- verb - afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace"
- be able to spare or give up; "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"
- be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information"
- have the financial means to do something or buy something; "We can't afford to send our children to college"; "Can you afford this car?"