Ameliorate (V) to make better or more tolerable

The mood of the prisoners was ameliorated when the warden gave them extra free time outside.

Amenable (adj) obedient, willing to give in to the wishes of another, agreeable.

The pm was amenable to my paying bill with jelly beans

Amenity (n): pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature

The amenities at the local club include a swimming pool.

Amiable (adj) friendly, agreeable

Our amiable guide made us feel right at home in what would otherwise have been a cold and forbidding museum.

Amnesty (n): an official pardon for a group of people who have vilolated a law or policy

An amnesty is an official forgetting

 

Amoral (adj): lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings.

Young juveniles are amoral.

Amorous (adj): feeling loving, especially in sexual sense; in love; relating to love.

The amorous couple made quite a scene at the movie.

 

Amorphous (adj): shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike


 

Anachronism (n): something out of place in time or history; an incongruity

 

Analogy (N): a comparison of one thing to another; similarity

 

Anarchy (n): absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder.

 

Anecdote ( n) a short account of a humorous or revealing incident

 

Anguish (n): agonizing physical or mental pain, purgatory, agony, pain, torment, suffing,

 

Animosity (n) resentment; hostility; ill will

The rivals for the state championships felt great animosity toward each other.

Anomaly (n): an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation

A snowy winter day is not an anomaly, but a snowy july day is.

 

Antecedent (n) someone or something that went before.

Your grandparents could be said to be your antecedents.

Antipathy (n) firm dislike

I feel antipathy toward bananas wrapped in ham.

 

Antithesis (n) the direct opposite