(v) to humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)

"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

(v) slake, abate, slack (make less active or intense)

(v) abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away (become less in amount or intensity)

"The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"

(v) abdicate, renounce (give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations)

"The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

(n) aberrant (one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group)

(adj) aberrant, deviant, deviate (markedly different from an accepted norm)

"aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

(n) aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance (a state or condition markedly different from the norm)

(n) aberration (a disorder in one's mental state)

(n) aberration, distortion, optical aberration (an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image)

(v) abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate (find repugnant)

"I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

(adj) abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy (of the most contemptible kind)

"abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "his miserable treatment of his family"

(adj) abject (most unfortunate or miserable)

"the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

(adj) abject, unhopeful (showing utter resignation or hopelessness)

"abject surrender"

(adj) abject (showing humiliation or submissiveness)

"an abject apology"

(v) recant, forswear, retract, resile (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure)

"He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

(n) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief

"abnegation of the Holy Trinity"

(n) self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation (renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others)

(adj) detestable, execrable, odious (unequivocally detestable)

"abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";

(adj) atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable (exceptionally bad or displeasing)

"atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "terrible handwriting"

(v) abhor, loathe, execrate (find repugnant)

"I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

(adj) abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful (failing to accomplish an intended result)

"an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

(n) abradant, abrasive material (a substance that abrades or wears down)

(adj) scratchy (causing abrasion), harsh, abrasive (sharply disagreeable; rigorous)

"the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"

(n) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

(n) cutting off (the act of cutting something off)

(v) bolt, absquatulate, run off, make off (run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along)

"The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

(v) shrive, (grant remission of a sin to)

"The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's"

(v) justify, free (let off the hook)

"I absolve you from this responsibility"

(adj) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink

"the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy

(adj) light (marked by temperance in indulgence) "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"

(adj) deep, recondite (difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge)

"the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

(v) border, adjoin, march, butt, butt against, butt on (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

"Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"

(v) submit, bow, defer, give in (yield to another's wish or opinion)

"The government bowed to the military pressure"

(v) enter (take on duties or office)

"accede to the throne"

(v) assent, acquiesce (to agree or express agreement) "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore"

(v) acclimatize, acclimatise, (get used to a certain climate)

"They never acclimatized in Egypt"

(n) an ascent, climb, upgrade (an upward slope as in a road)

"the car couldn't make it up the rise"

(v) address, come up to someone

(v) hook, solicit, (approach with an offer of sexual favors)

"he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

(n) accumulation (an increase by natural growth or addition)
(n) something contributing to growth or increase

"he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"

(n) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases)

(n) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles)

(n) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment)

(n) (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)

(n) a sharp bitterness

 
(n) tartness (a sharp sour taste)

(n) bitterness, acrimony, a rough and bitter manner

(n) height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, top (the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development)

"his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"

(n) vertex, peak, apex,(the highest point (of something)) "at the peak of the pyramid"

(adj) bitter (marked by strong resentment or cynicism)

"an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

(v) trip, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off (put in motion or move to act) "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"

(v) motivate, propel, move, prompt, incite (give an incentive for action)

"This moved me to sacrifice my career"

(n) visual acuity, sharp-sightedness (sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)

(n) acuteness, sharpness, keenness (a quick and penetrating intelligence)

"he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"

(v) muddle, puddle (mix up or confuse)

"He muddled the issues"

(v) addle (become rotten) "addled eggs"

(adj) accessory, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary (furnishing added support)

"an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"

(n) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

(n) adjunct a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

(n) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence 

(v) load, stretch, dilute, debase (corrupt or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones) "adulterate liquor"

(adj) adulterated, debased (mixed with impurities)

(n) coming (arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous))

"the advent of the computer"

(adj) associated by chance and not an integral part

"they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"

(n) auspices, protection (kindly endorsement and guidance)

"the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council"

(n) breastplate, egis (armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass)

(n) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

(n) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

(n) a cause of great suffering and distress

(n) (Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind

(n) agape love (selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications,  especially love that is spiritual in nature)

(n) gaping

"the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape"

(n) doubter (someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something)

(n) a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist)

(adj) agnostical (uncertain of all claims to knowledge)

(adj) agricultural, farming (relating to rural matters)

"an agrarian (or agricultural) society";

(n) briskness, smartness

"he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him"

(v) relieve, ease 

"The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears"

(v) quench, slake, assuage (satisfy (thirst))

"The cold water quenched his thirst"

(n) fable, parable, apologue (a short moral story (often with animal characters)

(n) emblem

(v) mingle, commix, unify, 

"resourcefully he mingled music and dance"

(adj) coalesced, consolidated, fused

"United Industries"; "the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a consolidated school"