t, n. apprehension, capture, detention; custody, duress;
stoppage, restraint, interruption, hindrance, prevention. Associated
words: capias, warrant.

arrogance, n. hauteur, superciliousness, insolence, haughtiness,
lordliness, contumely.

arrogant, a. See haughty.

arrow, n. dart; matras. Associated Words: barb, ouabain, sagittal,
sagittary, quiver, sheaf, belomancy.

arrowhead, n. Associated Words: cuneiform, sagittate.

arsenal, n. armory, magazine.

art, n. (fine arts) music, painting, sculpture, architecture,
poetry, engraving; (liberal arts) grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic,
geometry, music, astronomy, the sciences, philosophy, history; craft,
dexterity, clevernes, ingenuity, cunning, artifice. Associated Words:
technical, paleotechnics, technics, technic, intransigeant,
intransigeance, artist, artistic, artistry.

artful, a. designing, crafty, diplomatic, disingenuous, ingenious,
dexterous, politic.

article, n. thing, commodity; portion, clause, stipulation, detail,
item; contribution, piece, essay, feature.

articulation, n. joint; utterance, pronunciation, enunciation.

artifice, n. stratagem, finesse, craft, guile, subtlety, wile,
machination, ruse, diplomacy.

artificial, a. factitious; feigned, affected, assumed, fictitious,
counterfeit, spurious.

artisan, n. artificer, craftsman, mechanic, handcraftsman.

artist's workshop. studio, atelier.

artless, a. ingenuous, naive, guileless, simple, sincere, unaffected,
undesigning.

artlessness, n. ingenuousness, naivete, guilelessness, sincerity,
candor, innocence.

ascent, n. rising, ascension; elevation, height.

ascetic, n. hermit, recluse, eremite, anchoret, solitary. Antonyms:
voluptuary, sensualist, sybarite, worldling, epicure, gormand.

ascribable, a. attributable, assignable, chargeable, imputable,
referrible.

ascribe, v. attribute, assign, impute.

ascription, n. attribution, imputation.

ashamed, a. abashed, confused, mortified, disconcerted. Antonyms:
unashamed, brazen-faced.

ashes, n. pl. cinders; lapilli. Associated Words: ashery, mortuary
urn, spodomancy, leach.

ashes of barilla. pulverine.

ashy, a. ashen, cineraceous, cineritious, cinereous.

Asia, n. Associated Words: Asiatic, Asiaticism, Eurasian,
Eurasiatic, Asian.

ask, v. inquire, question, interrogate, quiz, catechize; request,
solicit, petition, supplicate, entreat, desire, beg, seek, beseech, crave,
implore, importune, dun, apply; require, deman