006-agrarian-allusion

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agrarian--adj.Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.

aide-de-camp--n.An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.

ailment--n.Slight sickness.

airy--adj.Delicate, ethereal.

akin--adj.Of similar nature or qualities.

alabaster--n.A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.

alacrity--n.Cheerful willingness.

albeitconj. Even though.

albino--n.  A person with milky white skin and hair, andeyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.

album--n.  A book whose leaves are so made to form paperframes for holding photographs or the like.

alchemy--n.Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metalsto gold.

alcohol--n.A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burningtaste.

alcoholism--n.  A condition resulting from the inordinate orpersistent use of alcoholic beverages.

alcove--n.A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.

alder--n.Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.

alderman--n.A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicialfunctions.

aldermanship--n.The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.

alias--n.An assumed name.

alien--n.One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.

alienable--adj.Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.

alienate--v.To cause to turn away.

alienation--n.Estrangement.

aliment--n.That which nourishes.

alkali--n.Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.

allay--v.To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.

allege--v.To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.

allegory--n.The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestivelikeness.

alleviate--v.To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.

alley--n.A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.

alliance--n.Any combination or union for some common purpose.

allot--v.To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.

allotment--n.Portion.

allude--v.To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.

allusion--n.An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention ofit.