The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

avant-garde
adj. innovative, advanced, progressive, experimental, original,
new, ground-breaking, pioneering, precedent-setting;
revolutionary, extreme, extremist, Colloq far-out, way-out: We
disapprove of your avant-garde notions of teaching. Some modern
art, avant-garde not very long ago, seems quite conventional
today.
avarice n. greed, acquisitiveness, cupidity, craving, covetousness,
desire, greediness, rapacity, selfishness; stinginess, meanness,
miserliness, parsimony, tight-fistedness, close-fistedness,
niggardliness, penuriousness: The classic tale of avarice is
that of King Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold.
avaricious
adj. greedy, acquisitive, grasping, covetous, mercenary,
selfish; penny-pinching, stingy, miserly, mean, parsimonious,
tight-fisted, close-fisted, niggardly, penurious, tight: She
fell into the clutches of an avaricious lawyer.
average n. 1 mean, norm, usual, standard: The Bell Inn is certainly
far above average in accommodation, food quality, and service. 2
on average. in the main, generally, normally, usually,
ordinarily, typically, customarily, as a rule, for the most
part: On average, I go abroad twice a year on business.
--adj. 3 normal, common, usual, customary, general, typical,
ordinary, regular: On an average day, the museum has about
2,000 visitors. 4 mediocre, middling, run-of-the-mill,
commonplace, common, ordinary, undistinguished, unexceptional,
Colloq so so: Boris is only an average violinist, but he's a
virtuoso on the harmonica.
averse adj. disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, resistant, loath,
opposed, anti, antipathetic, ill-disposed, indisposed: He does
not appear to be averse to your suggestion: in fact, he seems
quite keen on it.
aversion n. 1 dislike, abhorrence, repugnance, antipathy, antagonism,
animosity, hostility, loathing, hatred, odium, horror;
disinclination, unwillingness, reluctance, dislike, distaste:
Does Anne have an aversion to people who smoke? Your aversion to