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ABSTINENCE: Not using by choice especially drugs.
ACCEPT: To agree, consider, or hold to be true. To regard as true; believe in
ACCEPTANCE: The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true. Belief in something.
ACCLAMATION: Enthusiastic approval, without dissent.
ACHIEVE: To get by means of one’s own efforts. To attain with effort or despite difficulty.
ACKNOWLEDGE: To admit the truth or existence. To admit the existence, reality, or truth of.
ACTIVE LISTENING: The ability to use all of one’s senses to hear what someone is conveying not just hearing .
ACQUIRE: To get especially by one’s own efforts. To get especially by one’s own efforts or gain through experience
ACTION: The doing of something or something done.
ACTIVE: Producing or involving action or movement. Involving or requiring physical exertion and energy
ADDICT: A person who has an obsessive and compulsive need for something such as drugs.
ADDICTION: A physical, mental, and spiritual disease that is characterized an obsession to use the drugs that are destroying us, followed by a compulsion that forces us to continue.
ADMISSION: An admitting of something that has not been proven. A voluntary acknowledgment of truth.
ADMIT: To make known, usually with some unwillingness.
ADVERSITY: Hard times.
ADVICE: Suggestions about a decision or action. Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem
AFFIRMATION: Replacing the negative, random thoughts of self-condemnation and limitation with expansive good thoughts that help orient ourselves to a better and happier, healthy life. Usually in the form of short, well phrased sentences.
AFRAID: Filled with fear. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness in regard to something
AGE: The time from birth to a specified time.
ALIENATE: To cause one who used to be friendly or loyal to become unfriendly or disloyal. To cause to become withdrawn or unresponsive; isolate or dissociate emotionally
ALIENATION: The act of alienating or one who has been alienated. Emotional isolation or dissociation.
ALTERNATIVE: A chance to choose between things or one of the things between which a choice can be made. The choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities or a situation presenting such a choice.
ALTRUISM: Without taking anything from those who depend on you, giving freely with no expectation of return for the purpose of making the world a better place.
AMENDS: Something done or given by a person to make up for a loss or injury one has caused. To better one's conduct; reform.
ANGER: A strong feeling of displeasure and often with active opposition to an insult, injury, or injustice. A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
ANGUISH: Great pain or trouble of body or mind. Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment.
ANONYMITY: The state of having set aside personal considerations of being named or identified for some greater good, practicing principles before personalities.
ANONYMOUS: Not named or identified, equal in status and importance.
ANTIDOTE: Something used to reverse or prevent the action of a poison. A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
ANTI-SOCIAL: Hostile toward society, unfriendly. Behaving in a manner that violates the social or legal norms of society.
ANXIETY: Fear or nervousness about what might happen.
APATHY: Lack of feeling or of interest, indifference.
APPARENT: Appearing to be real or true. Readily understood; clear or obvious.
APPRAISAL: The act of setting a value on something. The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
APPRECIATION: The awareness or understanding of the worth or value of something. An expression of gratitude.
APPROPRIATE: Especially suitable. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
APPROVAL-SEEKING: Seeking to be accepted as satisfactory.
ARISE: To come into existence.
ARRESTED: The state of having the progress stopped, as with a disease.
ARROGANCE: A sense of one’s own importance that shows itself in a proud and insulting manner.
ASPECT: A certain way in which something appears or may be thought of. A way in which something can be viewed by the mind
ASPIRATION: A strong desire to achieve something high or great. A strong desire for high achievement.
ASSUME: To pretend to have or be. To be arrogant or pretentious.
ASSURANCE: The state of being certain or having confidence in one’s own self. Excessive self-confidence.
ATMOSPHERE: A surrounding influence or set of conditions. : A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude
ATTACHMENT: Connection by feelings of affection or regard or the connection by which one thing is joined to another. A bond, as of affection or loyalty; fond regard.
ATTEMPT: To try to do something. An effort or a try
ATTITUDE: A feeling or opinion about a certain fact or situation. An arrogant or hostile state of mind or disposition.
ATTRACTION: The state of being attracted or pleased or something that attracts or pleases. The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
ATTRIBUTE: A quality belonging to a particular person or thing. A quality or characteristic.
AUTONOMOUS: Self-governing, free from outside control yet limited within the Fellowship by the Twelve Traditions.
AVOID: To keep away from.
AWAKE: To become conscious or aware of something.
AWAKEN: To awake.
AWAKENING: The state of becoming awake.
AWARENESS: Having or showing understanding or knowledge of something.
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BAFFLED: Defeated or held in check by confusion. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment.
BALANCE: To make things equal or the state of equality. A stable mental or psychological state; emotional stability.
BECOME: To grow to be. Enter or assume a certain state or condition,
BEHAVIOR: The way in which one conducts oneself. The manner in which one behaves.
BELIEF: Something that one thinks is true. Something believed or accepted as true.
BLAMING: The state of placing responsibility on others for something that fails.
