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    This document defines and provides examples for the following words: - abaft, abase, abash, abate, abattoir, abdicate, abduct, aberrant, aberration, abet, admonish, adrenal, adrift It explains that these words relate to being behind or at the rear, lowering in rank or estimation, making ashamed, lessening in amount or intensity, slaughtering animals, renouncing a throne or duties, carrying off by force, deviating from the norm, wandering from the usual course, encouraging wrongdoing, cautioning or advising, relating to the adrenal glands, and not being fastened.

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    This document defines and provides examples for the following words: - abaft, abase, abash, abate, abattoir, abdicate, abduct, aberrant, aberration, abet, admonish, adrenal, adrift It explains that these words relate to being behind or at the rear, lowering in rank or estimation, making ashamed, lessening in amount or intensity, slaughtering animals, renouncing a throne or duties, carrying off by force, deviating from the norm, wandering from the usual course, encouraging wrongdoing, cautioning or advising, relating to the adrenal glands, and not being fastened.

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    This document defines and provides examples for the following words: - abaft, abase, abash, abate, abattoir, abdicate, abduct, aberrant, aberration, abet, admonish, adrenal, adrift It explains that these words relate to being behind or at the rear, lowering in rank or estimation, making ashamed, lessening in amount or intensity, slaughtering animals, renouncing a throne or duties, carrying off by force, deviating from the norm, wandering from the usual course, encouraging wrongdoing, cautioning or advising, relating to the adrenal glands, and not being fastened.

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    A Words

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    Ha Jin Claire Lee
    This document defines and provides examples for the following words: - abaft, abase, abash, abate, abattoir, abdicate, abduct, aberrant, aberration, abet, admonish, adrenal, adrift It explains that these words relate to being behind or at the rear, lowering in rank or estimation, making ashamed, lessening in amount or intensity, slaughtering animals, renouncing a throne or duties, carrying off by force, deviating from the norm, wandering from the usual course, encouraging wrongdoing, cautioning or advising, relating to the adrenal glands, and not being fastened.

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    abaft-

    - at the rear of; behind


    - at or towards the stern; aft

    abase-
    - to reduce or lower as in a rank, office, estimation; humble; degrade

    abash-
    - to destroy the self possession of; make ashamed or embarrassed: ​stand or feel abashed

    abate-
    - to reduce in amount, intensity, etc; lessen; diminish; ​to abate a tax, one’s enthusiasm,
    etc
    - law. t​ o put an end to or suppress (a nuisance); suspend or extinguish (an action)
    - to decrease or become less in strength or violence: ​the storm has abated

    abattoir-
    - a building or place where animals are slaughtered for food

    abdicate-
    - to renounce a throne or some claim; relinquish a right, power, or trust
    - to give up or renounce (office, duties, authorities, etc) esp. in a voluntary, public, or
    formal manner

    abduct-
    - to carry off surreptitiously or by force, esp. to kidnap
    - physiol. ​to draw away from the original position (opposite to adduct)

    aberrant-
    - staying from the right or usual course
    - deviating from the ordinary or normal type

    aberration
    - the act of wandering from the usual way or normal course
    - deviation from truth or moral rectitude
    - lapse from a sound mental state
    - optics. ​any disturbance of the rays of a pencil of light such that they can no longer be
    brought to a sharp focus or form a clear image
    abet-
    - to encourage or countenance by
    admonish-
    - to counsel against something; caution or advise
    - to notify of or reprove for a fault, esp. mildly: ​to admonish someone as a brother
    - to recall or incite a duty; remind: to admonish someone about his obligations

    adrenal-
    - situated near or on the kidneys; suprarenal
    - of or produced by the adrenal glands
    - one of the adrenal glands

    adrift-
    - not fastened by

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