Vocabulary[A-5]

anecdote: (short story)

There are many anecdotes about President Clinton's sexual escapades.

anguish: (extreme mental distress)

The missing teen's parents are suffering tremendous anguish over the fate of their missing daughter.

anesthetic: (a drug that causes temporary lost of bodily sensation)

The invention of anesthetic gas greatly helps the doctors to perform the surgery.

apathy: (no interest)

His apathy to date any woman is a result of his previous unhappy marriage which ended in divorce.

apprise: (inform sb. of sth.)

Please keep me apprised of the progress of your study.

apropos: (appropriate)

The education of discipline is apropos to all the youngsters before they go to the college.