ACCEDE:

■ verb
Agree, concur; enter office; become party to an agreement.


eg.After hearing all sides of the debate, the leader decided to accede.

ABYSMAL:
■ adjective
extremely bad.
literary very deep.


abysmally adverb

Eg. Living conditions were abysmal.

ABUT:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

ABUSIVE:

■ adjective
offensive and insulting.
characterized by physical abuse.
involving illegality.


abusively adverb
abusiveness noun

Eg) Harbhajan Singh was accused of using abusive language against Andrew Symonds in the sydney test.

ABSTRUSE:
■ adjective difficult to understand.


abstrusely adverb
abstruseness noun

(Eg). Chinese alphabets seems abstruse, but in reality it is easy.

ABSCOND:

■ verb
▶To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.

▶To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.

(Eg) Sadam Hussain had absconded before he was caught by the US forces.

ABSCISSION:

■ noun
▶The act or process of cutting off.

▶A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

ABRIDGE:
■ verb
shorten (a text or film) without losing the sense.
Law curtail (a right or privilege).


abridgeable adjective
abridgement (also chiefly US abridgment) noun
abridger noun

ABLUTIONS:
■ noun
(usu. ablutions) formal or humorous an act of washing.
▶a ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers.
(ablutions) Brit. (in army slang) a room with washing places and toilets.

ABIDE:
■ verb
(abide by) accept or act in accordance with (a rule or decision).
(cannot/could not abide) informal be unable to tolerate.
[often as adjective abiding] (of a feeling or memory) endure.
archaic live; dwell.


abidance noun (archaic).
abidingly adverb

(Eg). Everyone should abide traffic rules to reduce road accidents.

ABATE:
■ Transitive verb
1. to make less in amount, degree, force, etc.
2. to deduct
3. Law to put a stop to (a suit or action), end (a nuisance), etc.; terminate

Eg. The previous evening there had been a violent storm which had only partly abated by the time that the young explorer left home.

amphitheater (BRITISH = amphitheatre) = oval-shaped theater