ttor, aid, accessory, ally, adjuvant, adjunct, confrere,
accomplice, confederate, subsidiary.

assisting, a. auxiliary, subsidiary, assistant.

associate, v. join, connect, affiliate; fraternize, consort, hobnob.

associate, n. companion, intimate, mate, fellow, consort, comrade,
yoke-fellow, chum, crony, compeer; colleague, confrere, partner,
collaborator, cooeperator.

association, n. affiliation, connection, intimacy, conjunction,
combination, participation, collaboration, collusion, cooeperation,
coadjuvancy; fraternity, sodality, syndicate, confraternity, league,
corporation, guild. Antonyms: disassociation, disconnection.

assume, v. undertake; presume, presuppose, postulate, take for
granted; arrogate, appropriate; affect, simulate, pretend, feign.

assumed, a. supposed, postulated; make-believe, pretended, feigned.

assuming, a. pretentious, presumptuous.

assurance, n. surety, promise; confidence, conviction, assuredness;
effrontery, audacity, impudence; insurance.

astonish, v. amaze, stagger, astound, overwhelm, flabbergast
(Jocular).

astonishing, a. amazing, astounding.

astonishment, n. amazement, surprise, wonder, flabbergastation
(Jocular).

astraddle, adv. astride.

asylum, n. retreat, sanctuary.

Athanasian Creed. Quicunque, Quicunque vult.

athlete, n. gymnast, pancratist.

athletic, a. gymnastic, agonistic, pancratic; stalwart, muscular,
able-bodied, brawny, lusty.

athletics, n. pl. gymnastics, athletism. Associated Words:
agonistics, stadium.

atom, n. monad, molecule, particle, bit, iota, grain, scrap,
scintilla.

atomic, a. molecular.

atonable, a. expiable. Antonyms: unatonable, inexpiable.

atone, v. expiate.

atonement, n. expiation, amends, reparation, propitiation.

atoning, a. expiatory, propitiatory.

at short notice. summarily, promptly.

atrocious, a. heinous, flagitious, nefarious, felonious, infamous,
outrageous.

atrocity, n. heinousness, enormity, nefariousness, flagrancy, crime,
outrage.

attach, v. affix, annex, append, subjoin; distress, distrain, seize.

attachment, n. devotedness, devotion, adherence; adjunct appendage,
appurtenance; seizure, distress.

attack, n. assault, onset, aggression, onslaught, invasion, escalade,
siege, descent, charge, bombardment, fusillade, allonge, oppugnancy;
access, fit.

attack, v. assault, assail, invade, charge, beset, storm, besiege,
bombard, waylay; impugn, censure.

attain, v. achieve, compass, gai