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acquisitive means grasping and greedy
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anything acrid is sharp and bitter
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an acrimonious person's speech is bitter and stinging
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an affront is an insult; hence, to be affrontive is to be openly insulting and purposely offensive
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an agrestic person is rustic or crude and awkward
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a person who is aloof is distant, indifferent or disinterested
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amazonian means a woman who is powerful and aggressive; warlike. The Amazons were a mythical group of women warriors in Ancient Greecce
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to be ambivalent is to have conflicting feelings, "I love him but i hate him"
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Anyone who is amoral is without mortals or unable to tell the difference between right and wong
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anything or anyone out of its proper time is anachronistic
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