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Usage

• amenable

  If you are amenable to doing something, you willingly accept it without arguing.

• avocation

  An avocation is an activity, such as a hobby, that you do because you are interested in it.

• aversion

  An aversion to something is a strong dislike for or forceful opposition to it.

• avert

  When you avert your eyes, you turn them away; when you avert a disaster, you prevent it from happening—thereby also turning it away.

• amanuensis

  An amanuensis is a secretary who copies out information that is dictated to them.

• amentia

  extreme mental retardation