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Words starting with A

Words that start with A

Angry anteaters arguing against albino antelopes.

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Animals starting with A

Animals

Photo of avocado fruit

Food

Plants that start with A

Plants

Adjectives that start with A

Adjectives

Verbs that start with A

Verbs

Countries that start with A

Countries

Cities that start with A

Cities

Jobs that start with A

Jobs

Photo of an arm.

Body parts

Photo of an apple.

Fruit

Photo of an albatross

Birds

Photo of an aardvark.
Photo by MontageMan
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Ais forAardvark

Scientific name: orycteropus afer
The aardvark is from Africa. It is a very good digger and sleeps during the day and comes out at night to dig. Aardvarks are distantly related to elephants. Aardvarks eat ants and termites. Aardvarks are extremely primitive in their makeup and could be called a living fossil.
Warm blood, African animals
Photo of a boy using an abacus.
Photo by Nicki Dugan
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Ais forAbacus

An abacus was used for counting and adding up before calculators. It is made from beads on a frame that you slide backwards and forwards.
Devices
Photo of alalone.
Photo by Chinogypsie
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Ais forAbalone

An abalone is a very large sea snail. Abalones are a different shape to most snails - they have a wide, flat shell. You can still see the spiral shape in their shell. Abalones are caught and eaten as food, and their shells are used to make jewellery.
Molluscs, Food
Photo of abandoned shopping carts
Photo by jo marshall
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Ais forAbandoned

Something is abandoned if if has been left alone and forsaken, with nobody caring for it or paying it attention. The shopping cart in the picture has been abandoned.
Adjectives
An abbreviation of the phrase et cetera.
Photo by Kevin Dooley
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Ais forAbbreviate

Abbreviate means to shorten a word or phrase. For example, the phrase et cetera is abbreviated to etc.
Verbs
A very poor person
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Ais forAbject

Something is abject if it is utterly hopeless and miserable, of the worst order. For example, abject poverty.
Photo of a house ablaze
Photo by Petteri Sulonen
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Ais forAblaze

Something is ablaze if it is on fire, burning brightly.
Pyro
Abode.
Photo by James Thompson
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Ais forAbode

An abode is a place you live, such as a house.
Structures
Photo of an Australian Aborigine
Photo by Steve Evans
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Ais forAborigine

Australian Aborigines were the first people to live in Australia. There were once many, many different tribes of Aborigines, each with different traditions and languages. Around 2% of the Australian population identifies as Aboriginal.
Types of People
Photo of a child above a soldier
Photo by The U.S. Army
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Ais forAbove

Something is above something else it it is higher up. In the picture, the child is above the soldier.
Prepositions, Placements