Abstain: 1. Refrain from voting 2. Choose to refrain

Abstinence: 1. The act of abstaining (especially from drugs) 2. Act

Accept: 1. Consider or hold as true 2. Receive willingly something given or offered 3. React favorably to; consider right and proper 4. Tolerate or accommodate oneself to

Acceptance: 1. The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true 2. Means accepting all aspects of ourselves-our assets, our defects, our successes, and our failures. (Just For Today Pg.336)

Acclamation: 1. Enthusiastic approval

Accountable: 1. Liable to be called to account 2. Being obliged to answer to an authority for your actions

Achieve: 1. To gain with effort

Acknowledge: 1. Discern 2. Cite, as for an outstanding achievement 3. Express obligation for

Acquaint: 1. Make known

Acquainted: 1. Having fair knowledge of

Acquired: 1. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 3. Come to have, of physical features and attributes 4. Gotten through environmental forces

Acting As If: 1. Living as though we believe that what we hope for will happen. (Step Working Guides Pg.17 )

Action: 1. Something done (usually as opposed to something said) 2. The state of being active 3. The series of events that form a plot 4. The trait of being active and energetic and forceful

Active: 1. (pathology) tending to become more severe or wider in scope 2. Taking part in an activity 3. Characterized by energetic activity 4. Exerting influence or producing an effect 5. In operation 6. Engaged in full-time work

Addict: 1. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction 2. Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms 3. Is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs.(Basic Text Pg.3)

Addiction: 1. Being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) 2. An abnormally strong craving 3. Is a progressive disease; the disease effects us in the following general ways. Mentally, we become obsessed with thoughts of using. Physically, we develop a compulsion to continue using regardless of the consequences Spiritually, we become totally self-centered in the course of our addiction (It Works How & Why Pg.5-6) 4. Is a progressive, incurable, and can be fatal unless arrested (It Works How & Why Pg.6) 5. Is a disease the involves more than the use of drugs (Basic Text Pg.3.) 6. A disease that expresses itself in ways that are anti-social and that make detection, diagnosis and treatment difficult. (Basic Text Pg.3) 7. One aspect of our addiction was our inability to deal with life on life’s terms. (Basic Text Pg. 4) 8.Our reaction to drugs is what makes us addicts not how much we use.(Basic Text Pg.5) 9. Is a physical, mental, and spiritual disease that effects every area of our lives; Denial, substitution, rationalization, justification, distrust of others, guilt, embarrassment, dereliction, degradation, isolation, and loss of control are all results of our disease (Basic Text Pg.20 & Just For Today Pg.364) 10. Is an obsession to use drugs that our destroying us, followed by a compulsion that forces us to continue (Basic Text Pg.86) 11. Is not a hopeless condition from which there is no recovery. (Basic Text Pg.10) 12. Is a disease which takes no time off in its progression. If it is not arrested, it only becomes worse. (Staying Clean on the Outside IP No.23) 13. Is an isolating disease, closing us off from society, family, and self. (Just For Today Pg.24) 14. Is a family Disease, but we could only change ourselves. (Youth And Recovery IP No.13) 15. Is patient, subtle, progressive, and incurable. It’s also fatal- we can die from this disease, unless we continue to treat it. (Just For Today Pg.187) 16. Was a negative, draining dependence that stole all our positive energy. (Just For Today Pg.232) 17. Is a physical, spiritual, and emotional disease that touches every area of our lives (Behind The Walls Pg.4) 18. Is a progression disease. (Behind The Walls Pg.5) 19. Is a disease, not a moral problem. (Behind The Walls Pg.11) 20. Is much more than the drugs we used. Addiction is part of us; it’s an illness that involves every area of our live, with or without drugs We can see its effects on our thoughts, our feelings, and our behaviors, even after we stop using. (Just For Today Pg.364)

Adhere: 1. Be compatible or in accordance with 2. Follow through or carry out a plan without deviation 3. Come or be in close contact with 4. Be loyal to 5. Stick to firmly

Admission: 1. The act of admitting someone to enter

Admit: 1.Declare or acknowledge to be true 2. Allow to enter; grant entry to 3. Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of 4. Admit into a group or community 5. Afford possibility 6. Give access or entrance to 7. Have room for; hold without crowding 8. Serve as a means of entrance

Admitted: 1. Declare or acknowledge to be true 2. Allow to enter; grant entry to 3. Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of 4. Admit into a group or community 5. Afford possibility 6. Give access or entrance to 7. Have room for; hold without crowding 8. Serve as a means of entrance 9. Owned up to

Adversity: 1. A state of misfortune or affliction 2. A stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

Advice: 1. A proposal for an appropriate course of action

Affair: 1. A vaguely specified concern 2. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship 3. A vaguely specified social event

Affect: 1. The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion 2. Have an effect upon 3. Act physically on; have an effect upon 4. Connect closely and often incriminatingly 5. Make believe 6. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

Affection: 1. A positive feeling of liking 2. Comes from seeing similarities. (Another Look IP No.5)

Afraid: 1. Filled with fear or apprehension 2. Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement 3. Feeling worry or concern or insecurity 4. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness

Age: 1. How long something has existed 2. A time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

Agency: 1. An administrative unit of government 2. A business that serves other businesses 3. The state of being in action or exerting power 4. The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent 5. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved

Agenda: 1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to 2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)

Aim: 1. Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment 2. Propose or intend 3. Move into a desired direction of discourse 4. Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public 5. Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal 6. Direct (a remark) toward an intended goal 7. Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

Alarm: 1. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger 2. A device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event 3. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger 4. Wakes sleeper at preset time 5. Fill with apprehension or alarm 6. Arouse to a sense of danger

Alienate: 1. Arouse enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Alienation: 1. The feeling of being alienated from other people 2. Separation resulting from hostility

Alive: 1. Possessing life 2. Having life or vigor or spirit 3. In operation 4. showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive 5. Capable of erupting

Alleviating: 1. Provide physical relief, as from pain 2. Make easier

Allied: 1. Become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage 2. Related by common characteristics or ancestry 3. United in a confederacy or league 4. Joined by treaty or agreement

Alternative: 1. Allowing a choice 2. Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities 3. Pertaining to unconventional choices

Ambitious: 1. Having a strong desire for success or achievement 2. Requiring full use of your abilities or resources

Ambivalence: 1. Mixed feelings or emotions

Amends: 1. Compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult 2. Set straight or right 3. To change and above all, to make the situation right. (Just For Today Pg.196)

An unhealthy preoccupation with something or someone

Anger: 1. A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance 2. Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) 3. Is our reaction to present reality. (Basic Text Pg.94)

Anguish: 1. Extreme mental distress 2. Extreme distress of body or mind

Anonymity: 1. The state of being anonymous 2. A state of bearing no name (Basic Text Pg.72) 3. One of the basic elements of our recovery and it pervades our traditions and our Fellowship (Basic Text Pg.73) 4. Means Namelessness (Just For Today Pg.375)

Anonymous: 1. Having no known name or identity or known source 2. Not known or lacking marked individuality

Antidote: 1. Stops or controls the effects of a poison

Anti-social: 1. Shunning contact with others 2. Unwilling or unable to conform to normal standards of social behavior

Anxiety: 1. A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

Apathy: 1. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm 2. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

Apparent: 1. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses 2. Appearing as such but not necessarily so 3. Readily apparent to the eye

Appeal: 1. Earnest or urgent request 2. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates 3. A legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial 4. Take a court case to a higher court for review 5. Request earnestly (something from somebody) 6. Be attractive to 7. Challenge (a decision) 8. Take proceedings to have (a case) reheard in a higher court 9. Cite as an authority

Application: 1. A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school 2. The act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose 3. A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task 4. The work of applying something 5. Liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin 6. A diligent effort

Applied: 1. That are used 2. Concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles; opposed to theoretical 3. Put into practice or put to use

Apply: 1. Put into service; make work; make use of employ for a particular purpose 2. Be pertinent or relevant or applicable 3. Make use of 4. Ask (for something) 5. Apply to a surface 6. Be applicable to; as to an analysis 7. Give or convey physically 8. Avail oneself to 9. Ensure observance of laws and rules 10. Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing 11. Apply oneself to

Appraisal: 1. The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth

Appreciation: 1. Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something 2. An expression of gratitude 3. A favorable judgment

Approach: 1. A formulation adopted in tackling a problem 2. The act of drawing spatially closer to something 3 The final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing 4. A way of entering or leaving 5. The event of one object coming closer to another 6. A tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others 7. The temporal property of becoming nearer in time 8. A close approximation 9. Move towards; draw closer to 10. Come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character 11. Make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion

Appropriate: 1. Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

Approval : 1. The formal act of giving approval 2. A feeling of liking something or someone good 3. Acceptance as satisfactory 4. A message expressing a favorable opinion

Arise: 1. Come into existence or develop 2. Originate or come into being 3. Occur

Arrangement: 1. The thing arranged or agreed to 2. An orderly grouping (of things or persons) 3. An organized structure for arranging or classifying 4. The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically 5. The spatial property of the way in which something is placed 6. A piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments 7. Something made by arranging ordered parts together; the result of arranging 8. The act of arranging a piece of music

Arrested: 1. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 2. Take into custody, as of suspected criminals, by the police 3. Cause to stop 4. Having development checked or reversed

Arrogance: 1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Articulate: 1. Provide with a joint, as of two pieces of wood 2. Put into words or an expression 3. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way 4. Express or state clearly 5. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language 6. Consisting of segments held together by joints

Aspect: 1. A distinct feature or element in a problem 2. A characteristic to be considered

Aspiration: 1. A will to succeed 2. A cherished desire

Assign: 1. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) 2. Give out 3. Attribute to a source or cause 4. Select something or someone for a specific purpose 5. Put something on or into (abstractly) assign; 6. Make undue claims to having 7. Transfer one's right to

Associate: 1. A person who joins with others in some activity 2. A person who is frequently in the company of another 3. Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another 4. A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies 5. Make a logical or causal connection 6. Keep company with; hang out with 7. Bring or come into friendly association 8. Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status

Assortment: 1. A collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Assume: 1. Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof 2. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 3. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 4. Take control of; take as one's right or possession

Assurance: 1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities 2. A binding

Atmosphere: 1. A particular environment or surrounding influence 2. The weather or climate at some place 3. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

Attempt: 1. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something 2. An assault on someone 3. Make an effort or attempt 4. Enter upon an activity or enterprise

Attendance: 1. The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

Attitude: 1. A complex mental orientation involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

Attraction: 1. The force by which one object attracts another 2. The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts 3. A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts people

Attribute: 1. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished 2. An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity 3. Attribute to a source or cause

Authoritarian: 1. Behaves like a tyrant 2. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty 3. Likened to a dictator in severity 4. Expecting unquestioning obedience

Autonomous: 1. Existing as an independent entity 2. Of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment 3. Having the power of self government...undertaken or carried on without outside control (Basic Text Pg.62.)

Avoid: 1. Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something 2. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening 3. Refrain from doing something 4.

Awake: 1. Not in a state of sleep; completely conscious 2. Not unconscious; especially having become conscious 3. showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive

Awaken: 1. Cause to become awake or conscious (see become)

Awareness: 1. Having knowledge of 2. State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness