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1. A seaman who has learned the necessary duties – (able-bodied) = * A.B.

2. (woman) The head of an abbey = * abbess

3. (man) The head of abbey = * abbot

4. A person who wants to abolish (to destroy, put an end to ) = * abolitionist

5. The people who have lived in the country from the beginning = * aborigines

6. A partner in crime ( a companion in wrong-doing ) = * accomplice

7. One who keeps accounts of money = * accountant ; ( n.accountancy = the art of keeping accounts )

8. A person who is not a priest who helps in a religious ceremony = * acolyte

9. A person whom one knows, but not a close friend = * acquaintance; ( acquaint = to make know; I acquainted him with the facts = told him; To acquaint oneself with = learn )

10. A man who acts in plays = * actor

11. A woman who acts in plays = * actress

12. A person who is addicted (to do something), eq. drug = * addict

13. One who is very skill = * adept ; (adj.adept)

14. An officer who helps a commanding officer in an army = * adjutant-

15. An enemy = * adversary

16. One who speaks for another, eg.in a law court = * advocate

17. A European whose home is South Africa, generally used of those who speak Afrikaans, sometimes used of South African = * afrikaner

18. A person who acts for another = *agent; (A house-agent = one who arranges the selling; renting of houses; agent = a cause, eg. water is the agent which wears away the rock)

19. One who believes that nothing can be known about God or the future life = * agnostic

20. A farmer = * agriculturist; (agriculture = the art of making things grow on the land, farming)

21. One who is always warning people that terrible things are going to happen = * alarmist

22. One who in old times studies the nature of matter, chiefly with the aim of changing other materials into gold, or of finding a liquid which would make men live forever = * alchemist; (alchemy = the study of such things)

23. One who drinks too much wine; strong drink = * (an) alcoholic

24. A member of the city-council chosen for a long time or for life = * alderman

25. One who takes refuge in a foreign country = * alien ;(foreign /an alien = a foreigner / to alienate= to give to another, to turn away from/ inalienable = which cannot be taken or taken away / alienist = a doctor who treats mad people) (see refugee)

26. Kind mother = * (Latin) Alma Mater); (the school or university at which a person was taught)

27. An officer in charge of the giving of money and help to the poor = * almoner

28. A very close friend = * (Latin) alter ego

29. One who devotes his life to the welfare; interests of other people = * altruist; (one who thinks of the good of others rather than of his own)

30. A member of a school or university = * alumnus

31. One who employed to help in writing = * amanuensis

32. One who engages in any pursuit for the love of it, and not for gain =
* amateur; (one who studies an art or plays a game, for the love of it, not for money / amateurish = not perfect, done by an unpractised person

33. A woman-soldier; a tall, strong man-like woman = * Amazon

34. An officer of the government sent to another country to act for his own government = * ambassador

35. Wife of an ambassador=*ambassadress; (woman ambassador)

36. One who can use both hands = * ambidexter; (ambidextrous = able to do things equally well with another hand)

37. Ruler, King, eg. of Afghanistan = * Amir

38. One who tells untruths = * ananias

39. One who studies or teaches anatomy = * anatomist; (anatomy = 1.the study of the parts of the body; 2.the cutting up of a dead body so as to learn its parts)

40.Those persons from whom one is descended, eg. great – great grandfather, etc. = * ancestor(s) ; (ancestral; ancestry = one’s ancestors)

41. A man who lives alone for religious reasons = * anchorite

42. One who fishes with rod = * angler; (angle=to catch fish with a hook; an angler = a man who catches fish // angle = the meeting of two lines; a corner)

43. An Englishman who has lived long in India = * anglo-indian; (one of mixed English and Indian birth)

44. The person who is struggling against me = * (my) antagonist

45. A person who collects things belonging to ancient times = * antiquary;(antiquarian, antiquary = one who studies or collects old things / antique=old)

46. One who changes from one form of belief to another = * apostate (apostasy = the act of turning away from something in which one used to believe)

47. One who has promised to serve a master for a number years in order to learn an art or trade = * apprentice

48. A man who judges = * arbiter; (arbitrament = the act of judging; to arbitrate=to judge, to decide who is right or wrong)

49. A man who decides who is right or wrong = * arbitrator;(arbitrary = acting not according to rules but according to one’s own ideas)

50.One who shoots with a bow; arrows = * archer; (archery = the art of shooting with bows and arrows)

51. A man who makes the plans of new buildings = * architect;(architecture = the art of planning buildings, especially beautiful buildings)

52. A workman, a skilled workman = * artisan

53. One who gives up all pleasures and controls his desires = * ascetic

54. One who kills secretly or by surprise = * assassin; (a secret and disloyal murderer, usually of some important person/assassinate=to murder as the result of secret planning)

55.One who fixed values = * assessor; (assess = to find out or fix the value; assessment = the act of fixing a value,the value which is fixed)

56. One who does not believe that there is a God = * atheist

57. A man has a well-trained body, who is good at out-of-door games = * athlete; (athletic = having to do without-of-door games)

58. A man who goes with an ambassador = * attache

59.A lawyer = * attorney; (power of attorney = power to act for another person)

60. One who in Roman times told the future = * augur; (a sign of the future; to augur = to be a sign of the future, eg.This augurs no good)

61. The first beginner of a new thing / the writer of a book, story, etc. = * author

62. A woman writer = * authoress

63. A ruler who has complete and uncontrolled power = * autocrat

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