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Abate: MEANING: Reduce,
diminish
SENTENCE: Her stress over spending so much money on her house abated
when the real estate broker told her about the property's current market
value.
Aberrant: MEANING: Abnormal,
deviant
SENTENCE: Running naked down the street might be considered aberrant
behaviour.
Abeyance: MEANING: Temporary
cessation or suspension
SENTENCE: Her thoughts of her lover were in abeyance while she studied
for her exam.
Abridge: MEANING: Condense or shorten
SENTENCE: Audio books are almost always abridged,
since few people
want to listen to a 200-hour story.
Abscond: MEANING: Leave secretly and hurriedly,
often to escape or
avoid arrest
SENTENCE: The tenants absconded owing six months’ rent.
Abstemious : MEANING: Consuming
moderately in something,
especially food and drink
SENTENCE: ‘We only had one course at dinner.’ ‘Very abstemious of
you.’
Abstruse: MEANING: Difficult to
understand
SENTENCE: The doctor’s handwriting was so abstruse that the patient had
to ask him to print the letter.
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