0 data NOUNS A - B 1 DATA Abettor ,encourager; , -- 2 DATA Abeyance ,suspended ,action 3 DATA Abnegation ,repudiation; ,sacrifice 4 DATA Accolade ,award ,of merit 5 DATA Accretion ,growth; ,increase 6 DATA Acme ,top; ,pinnacle 7 DATA Acoustics ,science ,of sound 8 DATA Acquittal ,deliverance ,from a charge 9 DATA Acumen ,mental ,keenness 10 DATA Adage ,wise saying; ,proverb 11 DATA Advent ,arrival; ,beginning 12 DATA Aeon ,long period ,of time 13 DATA Allusion ,indirect ,reference 14 DATA Altruism ,unselfish aid; , generosity 15 DATA Amenity ,aggreeable ,manner 16 DATA Amnesia ,loss of ,memory 17 DATA Annals ,records; ,history 18 DATA Anomaly ,irregularity; , -- 19 DATA Apparition ,ghost; ,phantom 20 DATA Appellation ,name; ,title 21 DATA Arroyo ,gully; ,canyon 22 DATA Artifice ,deception; ,trickery 23 DATA Artisan ,manually skilled ,worker 24 DATA Atrocity ,brutal ,deed 25 DATA Attrition ,gradual ,wearing down 26 DATA Autocrat ,monarch; ,dictator 27 DATA Banter ,good natured ,ridiculing 28 DATA Benignity ,being kind; ,gracious 29 DATA Bourgeois ,middle ,class 30 DATA Bravado ,swagger; ,defiance