abnegation

renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation

 the couple's sudden abnegation of life in the fast lane for work as missionaries stunned everyone

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Her abnegation of ice cream and cookies is due to her Olympic team training.

Because everyone knew Jane loved serving the public, they were shocked by her abnegation of the congressional seat.

The school counselor hoped she could encourage her students to consider the abnegation of drug use.

When Mark decided to protest chemical dumping, he used the abnegation of food and water as his method of protest.

Frank’s abnegation of responsibility for his son’s behavior angered the judge. 

 “It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”
―Kathryn Hulme

ablution

washing

 

 

abjure

renounce upon oath

a strict religious sect that abjures the luxuries, comforts, and conveniences of the modern world

Galileo had been declared guilty, he was required of "abjure, curse and detest"  heliocentrism. Galileo spend the remainder of his life under house arrest.

 

  

abject

(of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of self-respect; Ex. abject apology

1. They live in abject misery.

 

1. He offered an abject apology.

“I offer my sincere apology to you and ask for your forgiveness,” Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis writes to Obama.
He earlier referred to Obama as a “snake-oil salesman” and a “boy.”

 

 
She thought he was an abject coward.

 

abide

dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; Ex. abide by the rules; Ex. I can't abide rude people.

  I really can't abide people who talk during a movie.

 

abhor

detest; hate

 The results indicate that of all these moral quandaries, infidelity is the most abhorred, edging out polygamy by just one point. Divorce and the death penalty were considered the most morally acceptable, but cloning, suicide and abortion are frowned upon.

 

abeyance

suspended action

 Brazil's claim to regional leadership is also in abeyance.

 

 

abet

“My father said to me that he did not want to aid and abet me on the road to hell, and he insisted I come into his business,” Mr. Drake once recalled. “I was in that business for 14 months, and then some songs I had sold to a publisher suddenly yielded the magnificent sum of $300, and in 1941, $300 was all the money in the world. That was my declaration of independence. I left the furniture business. I had a feeling I never would have been in the furniture man’s hall of fame.”








Ervin Drake at his home in Great Neck, N.Y., in 2001. He wrote his first big hits in the 1940s, including one for Billie Holiday.

aberrant

Aberrant coneflower several times the size of the normal ones

abash

abdicate

Definition:

• abdicate

  renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility)

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abase

Definiton:
lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect

 Example:
While running the archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Archbishop Bergoglio showed the same impulse toward simplicity and love for the poor that have become the hallmarks of his papacy. He inveighed against priests who display “spiritual worldliness” and told Elisabetta Piqué, a journalist for La Nación in Argentina (and the author of another fine biography, “Francis: Life and Revolution,” Loyola Press): “In Gospel terms, every elevation implies a descent; you have to abase yourself in order to serve better.”

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abate

McDonald’s Same-Store Sales Top Estimates as Declines Abate

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