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Usage

• abstruse

  You can describe something as abstruse if you find it highly complicated and difficult to understand.

• abstinence

  Abstinence is the practice of keeping away from or avoiding something you enjoy—such as the physical pleasures of excessive food and drink—usually for health or religious reasons.

• abscond

  When you abscond, you leave suddenly from a place that has imprisoned or persecuted you, or you leave from a place with something that doesn't belong to you.

• abstemious

  Someone who is abstemious avoids doing too much of something enjoyable, such as eating or drinking; rather, they consume in a moderate fashion.

• abstract

  When an idea is abstract, it is not based on a sensed material object but is rather based on a mental concept or is purely theoretical.