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A.
1.Absolute.
2.Academy.
3.acre; acres.
4.America.
5.American.
6.angstrom.
7.year. [Origin: < L annō, abl. of annus]
8.answer.
9.before. [Origin: < L ante]
10.April.
11.Artillery.
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a.
1.about.
2.acre; acres.
3.active.
4.adjective.
5.alto.
6.ampere; amperes.
7.year. [Origin: < L annō, abl. of annus]
8.anonymous.
9.answer.
10.before. [Origin: < L ante]
11.are; ares.
12.Baseball. assist; assists.
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a.  
abbr.  
  1. acre
  2. adjective
  3. Latin anno (in the year)
  4. Latin annus (year)
  5. anode
  6. answer
  7. Latin ante (before)
  8. anterior

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a·cre       (ā'kər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Abbr. a. or ac. A unit of area in the U.S. Customary System, used in land and sea floor measurement and equal to 160 square rods, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. See Table at measurement.
  2. acres Property in the form of land; estate.
  3. A wide expanse, as of land or other matter. Often used in the plural: "Everything was streaky pink marble and acres of textureless carpeting" (Anne Tyler).
  4. Archaic A field or plot of arable land.


[Middle English aker, field, acre, from Old English æcer; see agro- in Indo-European roots.]

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ad·jec·tive       (āj'ĭk-tĭv)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. a. or adj.
  1. The part of speech that modifies a noun or other substantive by limiting, qualifying, or specifying and distinguished in English morphologically by one of several suffixes, such as -able, -ous, -er, and -est, or syntactically by position directly preceding a noun or nominal phrase.
  2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as white in the phrase a white house.

adj.  
  1. Adjectival: an adjective clause.
  2. Law Prescriptive; remedial: adjective law.
  3. Not standing alone; derivative or dependent.


[Middle English, from Old French adjectif, from Late Latin adiectīvus, from adiectus, past participle of adicere, to add to : ad-, ad- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.]

ad'jec·tive·ly adv.
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a.
  1. acre
  2. adjective
  3. Latin anno (in the year)
  4. Latin annus (year)
  5. anode
  6. answer
  7. Latin ante (before)
  8. anterior
  9. artery

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