amatory romantic, alliteration the repetition of similar sounds, usually initial consonant sounds, allegory a story with hidden meaning, aleatory unplanned, spontaneous, albeit thought, even though notwithstanding, alacrity enthusiasm, promptness, akimbo hands on hips elbows turned outward, aggrandize exaggerate, aficionado devotee, afflatus inspiration with a divine origin, affectation deliberately showy mannerisms, aesthetic beautiful, aegis protection, adulatory flattering, adroit skillful, ad nauseam to the point of nausea, adjudicate judge, acrimonious angry, bitter