Microsoft Word ielts 4000 Academic Word List

assault:
 
attack; onslaught
 
 
assemble:
 
put together; bring or call together into a group or whole
 
 
assembly:
 
gathering; meeting; a group of persons gathered together for common reason
 
 
assert:
 
declare or state with confidence; put oneself forward boldly
 
 
assess:
 
 estimate value; judge worth of something
 
 
assessment:
 
act of judging or assessing; amount determined as payable
 
 
assign:
 
appoint; allot; make over; point out authoritatively or exactly
 
 
assignment:
 
task given to students; job; distribution; appointment
 
 

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assist:
 
give help or support to, especially as a subordinate
 
 
assistance:
 
activity of contributing to fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
 
 
assistant:
 
helper; person who assists or helps someone else
 
 
associate:
 
connect or join together; combine
 
 
association:
 
connection, whether of persons of things; union of persons in a company or society for 
some particular purpose
 
 
assorted:
 
varied; miscellaneous
 
 
assortment:
 
variety; collection containing a variety of sorts of things
 
 
assume:
 
suppose; presume; take on; bear
 
 
assumption:
 
something taken for accepted as true without proof; taking over or taking possession of
 
 
assurance:
 
promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence; freedom from doubt
 
 
assure:
 
solidify; guarantee; convince
 
 
assured:
 
made sure; exhibiting confidence or authority; indubitable
 
 
astonish:
 
surprise; shock
 
 
astound:
 
affect with wonder; surprise; shock
 
 
astray:
 
away from the correct path or direction, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering
 
 
astronomer:
 
a physicist who studies astronomy
 
 
astronomical:
 
enormously large or extensive; relating to astronomy
 
 
astronomy:
 
branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and universe as a whole
 
 
athlete:
 
sports man; one who contended for prize in public games
 
 
atlas:
 
a bound volume of maps, charts, or tables