16. affected (adjective) false, artificial. 80's radio djs used to speak in an affected british accent. affect (verb), affectation (noun)

17. affinity (noun) A feeling of shared attraction, kinship, a similarity. When Christi and I feel in love, we marvled over our affinity for John Cage, Riot Grrl and our RA.

18. aggrandize (verb) To make bigger or greater; to inflate. When he was mayor of New York, Ed Kotch was renowned for aggrandizing his accomplishments and stroling through city events shouting "How'm I doing?" aggrandizement (noun)

19. agitation (noun) A disturbance; a disturbig feeling of upheavel and excitement. The campus took away the microphones from the radical groups because they feared student agitation. agitated (adjective), agitate (verb)

20. alias (noun) An assumed name. Don't reveal my identity to the spies! Call me by my alias, "sloshie."

21. allegiance (noun) Loyalty or devotion shown to one's government or to a s person, group or cause. I pledge allegiance to my christi and to the sidewalk on which she stands...

22. allocate (verb) to apportion for a specific purpose, to distribute. If you want to buy a fabcy new RAID array, you're going to have to allocate some funds out of your general budget. allocation (noun)

23. amalgamate (verb) to blend thoroughly. The reason the white south wanted to maintain segregation, especially in schools, was because they feared amalgamation. Intermarriage would destroy their very wonderful paleness for future generations. amalgamation (noun)

24. ameliorate (verb) to make something better or more tolerable. Perhaps we can ameliorate the condition of Vanessa's Tofu Suprise through the juditious addition of soy sauce. amelioration (noun)

25. amortize (verb) to pay off or reduce a debt gradually throught periodic payments. In the interest rate is low, it might be a good idea to amortize our morgage instead of paying it off as fast as we can.

26. amplify (verb) to enlarge, expand or increase. When you asked me to amplify the music, i wrote a second movement, not knowing you just wanted me to make it louder. oops. amplification (noun)

27. anachronistic (adjective) out of the proper time. The knight at the ren-faire was wearing keds, which is totally an anachronism, cuz it's not like keds were invented yet when there were knights. of course, somebody running around now dressed in armor is kind of anachronistic anyway. Maybe he belongs to the society for creative anachronisms. anachronism (noun)

28. anarchy (noun) abscence of law or order. anarchists are kind of silly, because they don't want chaos or actual anarchy, they want people to form allegiances voluntarily. anarchic (adjective)

29. animosity (noun) hostility, resentment. Roz could no longer contain her animosity towards Xena and so after a minute of sniffing noses, she returned to growling obnoxiously.

30. anomaly (noun) something different or irregular. we noticed an anomoly on the scan, so we're going to have to do a biopsy to make sure it's not cancer. anomalous (adjective)

Usage

My mission: agitation. I've sworn alliegance to a secret organization, dedicated to anarchy. Using an alias, I travel to strange locations and stir up animosity against the ruling powers. Such animosity is always present, so I just need to amplify it to reolutionary levels. I'm like a modern-Che (or perhaps I'm aggrandizing myself). Fighting the power means bringing about a crisis quickly. Governments want to keep power and they will allocate funds for aid to do that, as little as possible, so they can create the illusion of ameliorating the problem. My pseudo-communist mission may sound like an anachronism to the upper classes, but it is not. the poor have no real affinity for the rich. they pretned to respect you, but it is merely an affectation. Right now, class uprising is thought of, by some, as an anomaly. They are wrong, it is the natural order of things. The mission of my adversaries, such as the world bank, is to prevent that. Thus they offer their loans, wich nations can only amortize while their GDP is eaten alive by debt paid to the first world. Some members of my group want to destroy the rich, others just want to amalgamate them with the rest of the world. some of us believe that the survival skills of the well-heeled are such that both amount to the same thing....

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