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acknowledgment, allowing, allowance, admitting, admittance,
conceding, concession: The court refuses to consider the
admission of testimony taken under duress. 4 acknowledgement,
confession, concession, profession, declaration, disclosure,
affirmation, concession, divulgence or divulgement, revelation:
The police were able to extract an admission of guilt from the
suspect. 5 ticket, (entry or entrance) fee, tariff: Admission
is free for senior citizens.
admit v. 1 let in, allow to enter, take or allow in; accept, receive:
I opened the window to admit some air. The harbour is too small
to admit even one more ship. 2 allow, permit, grant, brook,
tolerate: The governor will admit no delay in the execution of
the sentence, and the prisoner will be hanged at dawn. 3 accept,
concede, acquiesce, allow, grant, accept, recognize, take
cognizance of: Descartes' principle admitted nothing but what
his own consciousness obliged him to admit. 4 confess, own,
concede, divulge, reveal, acknowledge, declare: She readily
admitted to having incited the riot.
admittance
n. leave or permission to enter, entry, entering, entrance,
access, entr‚e: Admittance to the club is restricted to
members.
adolescent
n. 1 teenager, youth, juvenile, minor, stripling, youngster, US
teen, Colloq kid; Slang teeny-bopper: A group of adolescents
volunteered to work at the home for the elderly.
--adj. 2 teenaged, young, youthful, maturing, pubescent;
immature, puerile, juvenile: Adolescent growth is often
dramatic, a gain of two inches in height being not unusual.
adopt v. 1 take (in), accept, take or accept as one's own: Carol and
her husband have adopted two children. 2 take, take up or on or
over, embrace, espouse; arrogate, appropriate: All Hugh's ideas
are adopted from others - he's never had one of his own.
adorable adj. lovable, beloved, loved, darling, sweet, dear; delightful,
appealing, attractive, charming, captivating, fetching: To look
at him now, it is hard to imagine what an adorable child he once
was.