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[00:00.24] Become less intense or widespread.

[00:03.96] - Abate.

[00:05.82] A place where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food.

[00:10.09] - Abattoir.

[00:13.28] The superior of a monastery.

[00:15.94] - Abbot.

[00:18.85] To reduce to a shorter form intended to stand for the whole.

[00:22.85] - Abbreviation.

[00:25.50] To give up one's authority or throne.

[00:28.95] - Abdicate.

[00:32.13] Act of giving up the throne.

[00:34.79] - Abdication.

[00:37.72] Deviation from the right course.

[00:40.64] - Aberration.

[00:43.03] The act of washing oneself.

[00:45.94] - Ablution.

[00:48.08] Formally put an end to a system, practice, or institution.

[00:53.67] -Abolish

[00:57.13] Existing in a land from the earliest times, or from before the arrival of colonists.

[01:02.44] - Aboriginal.

[01:05.11] The inhabitants living from earliest times in a country, or The original inhabitants, or natives of a country.

[01:13.32] - Aborigines.

[01:15.99] To shorten a piece of writing without losing the sense.

[01:20.76] - Abridge.

[01:23.16] A shortened version of a larger work.

[01:26.61] - Abridgement.

[01:28.73] Cancel or do away with (a law or agreement).

[01:32.19] - Abrogate.

[01:34.58] Formal forgiveness of a person's sins.

[01:38.30] - Absolution.

[01:40.96] Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or ridiculous.

[01:46.01] - Absurd.

[01:48.39] To increase the speed.

[01:51.05] - Accelerate.

[01:53.19] Any award, honor, or laudatory notice.

[01:57.44] - Accolade.

[01:59.82] A person who helps another to commit a crime, or to do something morally wrong, or A partner in crime.

[02:07.80] - Accomplice.

[02:10.46] Be harmonious or consistent with.

[02:13.90] - Accord.

[02:16.56] A person whose profession is to keep accounts.

[02:20.28] - Accountant.

[02:23.18] Sharp and direct.

[02:25.83] - Acerbic.

[02:26.86] The scientific study of sound.

[02:30.83] - Acoustics.