1. Abase - to humiliate, degrade .
(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror)
2. Abate - to reduce, lessen .
(The rain poured down for a while, the abated)
3. Abdicate - to give up a position, usualy one of leadership .
(When he realized that the revolutionaires would surley win, the king abdicated his throne)
4. Abduct - to kidnap, take by force .
(The Evil doers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home)
5. Aberration - something that differs from the norm .
(In 1918 , the boston red sox won the world series , but the sucess turned out to be an abberation , and the red sox have not won the world series since . )
6. Abet - to aid or help .
(The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him . )
7. Abhor - to detest, hate .
(Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport . )
8. Abide - to put up with or to remain .
(Though he did not agree with the decesion, Chuck decided to abide by it . )
9. Abject - wretched, pitiful .
(After losing her money, falling into a puddle , and breaking her ankle , Eloise was abjected.)
10. Abjure - to reject, renounce .
(To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil polices of his wicked prodessceser.)
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