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The erosive process that wears away a glacier is also known as ablation.

If someone in authority abolishes a law or practice, they formally put an end to it.

If you abridge a book or play, you make it shorter by making cuts to the original.

An addendum is an additional section added to the end of a book, document, or speech that gives more information.

An adherent is a supporter or follower of a leader or a cause.

An adjunct is something that is added to or joined to something else that is larger or more important.

Something that happens unexpectedly and by chance that is not inherent or natural to a given item or situation is adventitious, such as a root appearing in an unusual place on a plant.

To agglomerate a group of things is to gather them together without any noticeable order.

An aggregate is the final or sum total after many different amounts or scores have been added together.

When two or more things, such as organizations, amalgamate, they combine to become one large thing.

When something is ancillary to something else, such as a workbook to a textbook, it supports it but is less important than that which it supports.

An appurtenance is a supporting feature, form of equipment, or item associated with a particular activity.

Attrition is the process of gradually decreasing the strength of something—such as an army or workforce—by continually weakening it or decreasing it in size.

To augment something is to increase its value or effectiveness by adding something to it.

If liquid coagulates, it becomes thick and solid.

Something is concomitant when it happens at the same time as something else and is connected with it in some fashion.

If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, you combine them in order to produce a single unit.

When a liquid congeals, it becomes very thick and sticky, almost like a solid.

If something, such as a sound, is undergoing a crescendo, it is getting louder and louder or increasing in intensity and is about to reach its peak strength.

A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.

Discrete objects are completely unconnected to one another, so each one is separate and individual.

When something disintegrates, it crumbles, falls apart, or breaks down into separate pieces.

When you dismantle something, you take it apart or destroy it piece by piece.

When you dispel a thought from your mind, you cause it to go away or disappear; when you do the same to a crowd, you cause it to scatter into different directions.

To disseminate something, such as knowledge or information, is to distribute it so that it reaches a lot of people.

When something dissipates, it either disappears because it is driven away, or it is completely used up in some way—sometimes wastefully.

Dissolution is the breaking up or official end of a group, such as a couple or institution; it can also be the act of separating something into smaller components.

To efface something is to erase or remove it completely from recognition or memory.

An entourage is a group of assistants, servants, and other people who tag along with an important person.

When something erodes, it slowly wears away or is gradually destroyed.

When you excise something, you remove it by cutting it out.

When you incorporate one thing into another, you add it so that it becomes a part of it.

When you integrate things, you bring them together so that they fit as a whole.

To pare something down is to reduce or lessen it.

To rarefy something is to make it less dense, as in oxygen at high altitudes; this word also refers to purifying or refining something, thereby making it less ordinary or commonplace.

Sporadic occurrences happen from time to time but not at constant or regular intervals.