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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
3. acceleration, n. View full entry 1490
...The action or process of accelerating or causing something to accelerate; speeding up; quickening. Also: an instance of this....
4. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
5. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
6. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
7. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
8. accrue, v. View full entry 1440
...intr. Esp. of advantage or profit: to fall to or devolve on someone as a natural growth or increment; to come by way of addition or increase, or as an accession...
9. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
10. act, n. View full entry a1382
...In pl., with capital initial, and freq. with the. More fully Acts of the Apostles. (The name of) one of the books of the New Testament...
11. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
12. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
13. activity, n. View full entry a1425
...The state of being actively occupied; brisk or vigorous action; busyness, liveliness, vigour....
14. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
15. add, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To join (something) to something else so as to increase the amount, size, importance, etc. Freq. with to. Cf. superadd1....
16. add-back, n. View full entry 1954
...Adjustment of net income through addition or deduction of items not affecting working capital; an item thus added or deducted....
17. adjusted, adj. View full entry 1652
...Harmonized, balanced. Obs....
18. adjustment, n. View full entry 1644
...The action or process of adjusting something (in various senses). Also: an instance of this; an alteration, a modification....
19. administration, n. View full entry c1350
...The action, or (occas.) an act, of administering or giving something to a person. Freq. with of....
20. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
