alter

Usage

• altruistic

  If your behavior or manner is altruistic, you show you care more about other people and their interests than you care about yourself.

• adulterate

  If you adulterate something, you lessen its quality by adding inferior ingredients or elements to it.

• altercation

  An altercation is a noisy disagreement or heated argument.

• alteration

  An alteration is a change or adjustment to something.

• alternative

  An alternative is another choice offered to you in addition to something that you already have.

• alter

  cause to change

• alterable

  capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic

• alternate

  every second one of a series

• alternation

  successive change from one thing or state to another and back again

• alternator

  an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)

• adulteration

  being mixed with extraneous material

• adultery

  extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations

• altruism

  the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

• unalterable

  not capable of being changed or altered

• unadulterated

  not mixed with impurities