ape altercation 🦍

A disqualified entry from the Life without the letter A contest.

UNCOMMON WORD DEFINITIONS

apish: ape appearing
(resembling or likened to an ape)

acupuncturist: an absurd avocation
(someone who pokes needles in innocent people for a living)

attest: allege, assert
(usually in a formal, legal context)

anarchy: advocating against authority
(in this case, alleging said ape had cheated/breached the rules in a contest)

amalgamate: alloy alike articles
(combine or unite together different things/arguments to form together one structure)

aspersion: an attack
(on the reputation on the integrity of someone/something)

ardent: avid
(enthusiastic, excited)

auscultate: adroitly audit
(carefully listen to)

arete: accomplished, admired
(virtue, excellence of any kind -- the alliterative definition above is slightly misleading)

adjudicator: an authority
(a judge)

In plain English: someone accuses an ape of spreading chaos in the contest; he gets booked by the cops; at trial, he is accused of being out to destroy society for fun while pretending to be virtuous, until the validity of the rules that he has allegedly broken come into question.


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