Awaken, v. n. Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.
Awakening, n. Revival.
Award, v. a. Adjudge, decrees.
Award, n. Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.
Aware, a. Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.
Away, ad. 1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.
2. Begone, let us go.
Away with, Take away.
Awe, n. 1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.
2. Dread, fearfulness.
Awe, v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.
Awe-struck, a. Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.
Awful, a. 1. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.
2. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.
3. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.
Awhile, ad. For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.
Awkward, a. 1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.
2. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.
3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.
Awned, a. (Bot.) Aristate, bearded.
Awning, n. Canopy, tilt.
Awry, ad. 1. Obliquely, asquint, askance.
2. Perversely, wrong.
Awry, a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.
Axilla, n. [L. pl. Axillæ.] (Anat.) Armpit.
Axiom, n. 1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.
2. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
Axiomatic, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
Axiomatical, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.
Axis, n. Shaft, spindle, arbor.
Ay, ad. Yes.
Aye, ad. Yes.
Aye, ad. [Poetical.] Always, for ever.
Azote, n. Nitrogen.
Azure, a. Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.
Azure, n. Blue, sky-color.
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Babble, v.n. 1. Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.
2. Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or thoughtlessly.
Babble, v. a. Tell (foolishly), prate, utter, prate about.
Babble, n. Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter, balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge, trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk, frothy discourse.
Babbling, n. 1. Prattle, babble.
2. Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.
Babe, n. Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, bairn, little one.
Babel, n. Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.
Baby, n. Infant, babe.
Babyhood, n. Infancy.
Baccalaureate, n. Degree of bachelor of arts.
Baccate, a. (Bot.) Of a pulpy nature (like a berry).
Bacchanal, n. Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.
Bacchanal, a. Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.
Bacchanalian, n. and a. Bacchanal.
Bacchanals, n. pl. Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch, drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken feasts.
Back, n. 1. Upper part, outer part.
2. Hinder part.
Back, a. 1. Remote.
2. Hindmost, in the rear.
3. In a backward direction.
Back, ad. 1. To the place of starting.
2. Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.
3. In return, in recompense.
