Synonyms for Apologize:

• n.

  •
  • give satisfaction,
  • withdraw,
  • express regret,
  • make it up to someone,
  • bow to,
  • excuse oneself,
  • make amends,
  • beat your breast,
  • ask pardon,
  • ask forgiveness,
  • wear sackcloth and ashes,
  • redeem yourself,
  • offer an excuse,
  • eat crow,
  • retract,
  • clear oneself,
  • put on/wear a hair shirt,
  • make reparations for,
  • make apology for,
  • make up,
  • offer compensation.
  •
  • maintain,
  • support,
  • stand up for,
  • stick up for,
  • speak up for.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • apologise,
  • excuse,
  • justify,
  • rationalise,
  • rationalize.

• v.

  •apologize (verb)
  • confess,
  • plead,
  • defend,
  • answer.
  •atone (verb)
  • redeem oneself.
  •communication (verb)
  • apologize.
  •express remorse, regret (verb)
  • admit guilt,
  • cop out,
  • make reparations,
  • make up with,
  • get down on knees,
  • beg pardon,
  • cop a plea,
  • say one is sorry,
  • crawl,
  • offer excuse,
  • purge,
  • square.
  •regret (verb)
  • be wailing,
  • feeling sorry,
  • cries over,
  • was sorry for,
  • be-wailed,
  • has compunctions,
  • cried over spilled milk,
  • be-moan,
  • be wails,
  • am sorry for,
  • kicked oneself,
  • art sorry for,
  • haddest compunctions,
  • be moans,
  • weeping over,
  • hadst compunctions,
  • dis-approved,
  • be moaned,
  • wast disturbed,
  • was disturbed,
  • has qualms,
  • wert sorry for,
  • being disturbed,
  • dis-approve,
  • wast sorry for,
  • be-moans,
  • re-pines,
  • be moaning,
  • having compunctions,
  • be wailed,
  • having qualms,
  • dis-approves,
  • dis approve,
  • be-moaning,
  • re pines,
  • is disturbed,
  • dis-approving,
  • re pine,
  • feeling uneasy,
  • felt uneasy,
  • are sorry for,
  • kicking oneself,
  • be wail,
  • haddest qualms,
  • re-pine,
  • hast compunctions,
  • re-pining,
  • looks back,
  • be-wail,
  • be moan,
  • be-moaned,
  • had compunctions,
  • dis approves,
  • looked back,
  • feels sorry,
  • hadst qualms,
  • kicks oneself,
  • dis approved,
  • be-wails,
  • hath qualms,
  • feeling remorse,
  • crying over,
  • am disturbed,
  • wert disturbed,
  • re-pined,
  • cried over,
  • weeps over,
  • feels uneasy,
  • crying over spilled milk,
  • hath compunctions,
  • be-wailing,
  • were sorry for,
  • are disturbed,
  • dis approving,
  • re pined,
  • hast qualms,
  • cries over spilled milk,
  • were disturbed,
  • felt sorry,
  • had qualms.
  •repent (verb)
  • is ashamed,
  • shows penitence,
  • am contrite,
  • is contrite,
  • seeing error of ways,
  • wast contrite,
  • am ashamed,
  • wast sorry,
  • was ashamed,
  • showed penitence,
  • were ashamed,
  • sees error ways,
  • are sorry,
  • are contrite,
  • art sorry,
  • are ashamed,
  • reproached oneself,
  • re formed,
  • seeing error ways,
  • was sorry,
  • being ashamed,
  • wert ashamed,
  • was contrite,
  • showing penitence,
  • re-forms,
  • re forming,
  • reproaches oneself,
  • art contrite,
  • wast ashamed,
  • am sorry,
  • wert sorry,
  • were sorry,
  • saw error ways,
  • saw error of ways,
  • art ashamed,
  • were contrite,
  • re form,
  • Re-forming,
  • re forms,
  • being sorry,
  • see error ways,
  • wert contrite,
  • reproaching oneself,
  • is sorry,
  • being contrite,
  • sees error of ways.
  •vindicate (verb)
  • exonerate,
  • absolve,
  • dismiss,
  • mitigate,
  • forgive,
  • exculpate,
  • vindicate,
  • refute,
  • acquit,
  • pardon,
  • avenge,
  • clear.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • expiate,
  • make up to,
  • eat humble pie.
  •atone
  • take medicine,
  • do penance,
  • expiates,
  • setting off,
  • makes amends,
  • making amends,
  • paid one's dues,
  • make reparation,
  • made up for,
  • pay one's dues,
  • doing penance,
  • make up for,
  • offsetting,
  • pay dues,
  • made amends,
  • counter-balances,
  • out weigh,
  • make for,
  • set off,
  • take one's medicine,
  • counter-balance,
  • make redress,
  • made for,
  • redeemed,
  • making for.
  •Other relevant words:
  • call on,
  • exonerated,
  • dilute,
  • twist,
  • denigrate,
  • gallic,
  • leave out,
  • hammer,
  • unloose,
  • construe,
  • defense mechanism,
  • demurrer,
  • take in,
  • reproach oneself,
  • bring back,
  • sully,
  • turn over,
  • sinkhole,
  • counterbalance,
  • advert,
  • weakened,
  • constitute,
  • dod,
  • stigmatise,
  • herb of grace,
  • slenderize,
  • dampen,
  • be,
  • denial,
  • incite,
  • piss,
  • curtly,
  • induce,
  • defamation,
  • citation,
  • dim,
  • ease,
  • corroborate,
  • pull back,
  • defense team,
  • redress,
  • smudge,
  • thin,
  • call for,
  • displace,
  • quote,
  • acquire,
  • countenance,
  • omit,
  • charter,
  • chicken out,
  • take aim,
  • colorful,
  • badly,
  • barf,
  • solution,
  • abuse,
  • command,
  • reinforcement,
  • need,
  • plunk for,
  • mollify,
  • exact,
  • draw back,
  • trim down,
  • flush,
  • incompetent person,
  • expiation,
  • build,
  • desert,
  • expand,
  • cook,
  • clean-cut,
  • fight down,
  • rue,
  • color in,
  • counterfeit,
  • deletion,
  • whittle,
  • bread and butter,
  • tough,
  • foursquare,
  • hold,
  • dyed,
  • clearly,
  • devise,
  • gratuitous,
  • cut of meat,
  • compensation,
  • mar,
  • satisfaction,
  • enlighten,
  • one-sided,
  • fink,
  • solvent,
  • repentance,
  • meritless,
  • spoiled,
  • burnish,
  • furbish up,
  • spirt,
  • moderate,
  • good-for-naught,
  • livelihood,
  • scale down,
  • ruthful,
  • vividness,
  • excusatory,
  • give the axe,
  • move around,
  • hearty,
  • faulty,
  • atone,
  • glossiness,
  • embrace,
  • lop,
  • shortsighted,
  • wreak,
  • risky,
  • enlarge,
  • shrink back,
  • grow,
  • get to,
  • flaw,
  • excogitate,
  • drab,
  • suffice,
  • pay off,
  • biased,
  • see the light,
  • wretched,
  • coloring,
  • besmirch,
  • rid,
  • facilitate,
  • involve,
  • trifling,
  • cover,
  • demean,
  • cesspit,
  • lamentable,
  • invent,
  • sequestrate,
  • dip,
  • bring,
  • select,
  • conduct,
  • abjure,
  • hook up with,
  • create,
  • demand,
  • convey,
  • alleviate,
  • piddle,
  • discount,
  • name,
  • speculative,
  • observe,
  • consume,
  • ignore,
  • take a crap,
  • trim,
  • train,
  • neglect,
  • chop up,
  • emblazon,
  • pare down,
  • disgorge,
  • micturate,
  • discredit,
  • realise,
  • cancel,
  • bring up,
  • emasculated,
  • repair,
  • draw in,
  • look across,
  • bear out,
  • arrive at,
  • sump,
  • exonerative,
  • exposit,
  • slump,
  • seal,
  • die,
  • scant,
  • sanctify,
  • fight back,
  • pick out,
  • straightforward,
  • remitment,
  • misfortunate,
  • amnesty,
  • regurgitate,
  • formulate,
  • progressive,
  • crystalise,
  • cut back,
  • right,
  • profess,
  • solid,
  • adduce,
  • pack,
  • turn off,
  • slice,
  • prepare,
  • dark,
  • salvage,
  • direct,
  • trim back,
  • brighten,
  • damages,
  • back up,
  • resile,
  • look out on,
  • stock-purchase warrant,
  • return,
  • detached,
  • detonate,
  • edit out,
  • produce,
  • even up,
  • spend a penny,
  • stick out,
  • guarantee,
  • resign,
  • cause,
  • include,
  • reclaim,
  • negligible,
  • notice,
  • endure,
  • hire,
  • coloring material,
  • entomb,
  • authorise,
  • know,
  • vomit up,
  • retrospect,
  • founder,
  • solicit,
  • swallow hole,
  • honk,
  • give out,
  • dissolve,
  • ridiculous,
  • colored,
  • trademark,
  • take on,
  • unmortgaged,
  • progressive tense,
  • allow,
  • percipient,
  • aspersion,
  • short-circuit,
  • liberal,
  • ingest,
  • accept,
  • purgation,
  • swing,
  • sad,
  • substandard,
  • jejune,
  • stomach,
  • light up,
  • drive,
  • throw out,
  • no-account,
  • subscribe,
  • deal,
  • take a leak,
  • abbreviate,
  • oppose,
  • assume,
  • payoff,
  • result,
  • play,
  • imperfect tense,
  • spew,
  • revilement,
  • shuffling,
  • disregard,
  • gruntle,
  • progress to,
  • wrench,
  • dead,
  • patch up,
  • allow in,
  • squeal,
  • straight,
  • exert,
  • pretend,
  • stool,
  • ransomed,
  • fail,
  • move over,
  • continuous tense,
  • balancing,
  • set out,
  • barren,
  • rectify,
  • respond,
  • push aside,
  • turn of events,
  • sequester,
  • fire,
  • imprimatur,
  • urinate,
  • bolster,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • relinquish,
  • serve,
  • track,
  • cast,
  • fashion,
  • develop,
  • pass water,
  • deoxidise,
  • thin out,
  • backing,
  • chuck,
  • let in,
  • save,
  • obdurate,
  • self-abasement,
  • shrink,
  • colorise,
  • immerse,
  • blob,
  • discolor,
  • nominate,
  • colourize,
  • stain,
  • purging,
  • frail,
  • settle,
  • call in,
  • comprise,
  • distressing,
  • penitence,
  • scour,
  • fixing,
  • absolved,
  • shoot,
  • defending team,
  • blue,
  • contrive,
  • regenerate,
  • inferior,
  • post,
  • spot,
  • endorsement,
  • forget,
  • annotate,
  • shuffle,
  • paucity,
  • trigger off,
  • bungling,
  • score,
  • crook,
  • complimentary,
  • sleek over,
  • assistance,
  • obstinate,
  • mould,
  • unsound,
  • little,
  • disembarrass,
  • contract,
  • read,
  • wield,
  • say,
  • discolour,
  • digest,
  • spurt,
  • still,
  • sustain,
  • see,
  • warrantee,
  • sanction,
  • cave in,
  • open,
  • bend,
  • abridge,
  • weak,
  • short-change,
  • mold,
  • hack,
  • brusk,
  • rapprochement,
  • unsay,
  • lament,
  • give the sack,
  • gratis,
  • retch,
  • round,
  • shrive,
  • keep down,
  • stigmatize,
  • plump for,
  • shame,
  • set forth,
  • lapse,
  • credit,
  • relieve oneself,
  • dilate,
  • contumely,
  • keep up,
  • suffering,
  • affirm,
  • solve,
  • break down,
  • bring down,
  • get hitched with,
  • claim,
  • free pardon,
  • keep,
  • negro,
  • indemnification,
  • Rued,
  • elucidate,
  • dress,
  • even off,
  • plough,
  • assert,
  • cut down,
  • bit,
  • scurvy,
  • reply,
  • dislodge,
  • cook up,
  • grovel,
  • shape,
  • overleap,
  • crystallise,
  • suddenly,
  • retire,
  • silly,
  • depart,
  • act,
  • have,
  • all the way,
  • aim,
  • helper,
  • reference,
  • learn,
  • damp,
  • subside,
  • send packing,
  • number,
  • subsidence,
  • readable,
  • puke,
  • blade,
  • back,
  • supporting,
  • melt off,
  • remittance,
  • quotation,
  • disconsolate,
  • curve,
  • stir up,
  • sour,
  • unqualified,
  • allay,
  • start,
  • denounce,
  • swallow up,
  • dominate,
  • carry,
  • review,
  • substantiate,
  • spare,
  • back off,
  • spue,
  • cushion,
  • warranty,
  • unfit,
  • lighten,
  • famine,
  • avail,
  • weaken,
  • fixture,
  • take out,
  • deoxidize,
  • sick,
  • engage,
  • square toes,
  • sack up,
  • shorten,
  • comport,
  • refutation,
  • subdue,
  • edit,
  • activate,
  • revenge,
  • execrable,
  • relent,
  • be sick,
  • insufficiency,
  • force out,
  • brush aside,
  • shortly,
  • mark,
  • remit,
  • be ashamed,
  • hardly,
  • tinge,
  • receipt,
  • ease up,
  • implore,
  • rebut,
  • distort,
  • supporter,
  • get hold of,
  • tap,
  • fault,
  • slur over,
  • marry,
  • cleared,
  • harmonize,
  • inadequateness,
  • crawfish out,
  • bushel,
  • ignominy,
  • remedy,
  • even out,
  • asseverate,
  • purify,
  • just,
  • darn,
  • wait on,
  • tighten,
  • move back,
  • brusque,
  • undercut,
  • illuminate,
  • absolvitory,
  • overcompensate,
  • repossess,
  • salve,
  • vomit,
  • construct,
  • glossary,
  • swerve,
  • tolerate,
  • fix,
  • department of defense,
  • clear-cut,
  • fall off,
  • cold shoulder,
  • bring in,
  • vilification,
  • crawfish,
  • refer,
  • abruptly,
  • sheer,
  • high-risk,
  • understand,
  • bleached,
  • baseball swing,
  • slew,
  • accompaniment,
  • preserve,
  • sweep up,
  • curt,
  • give,
  • brook,
  • unbosom,
  • abject,
  • woeful,
  • recant,
  • propitiation,
  • crystallize,
  • chop shot,
  • require,
  • poor,
  • shortened,
  • take off,
  • exculpated,
  • attain,
  • squarely,
  • pee,
  • grim,
  • inter,
  • switch off,
  • seclude,
  • aid,
  • touch off,
  • skin,
  • touch on,
  • fake,
  • contain,
  • remittal,
  • thinned,
  • boil down,
  • blow up,
  • fleck,
  • unclouded,
  • patronize,
  • smirch,
  • fawn,
  • ready,
  • cussed,
  • recede,
  • pull in,
  • trigger,
  • form,
  • square up,
  • gentle,
  • can,
  • come down,
  • peel,
  • substantial,
  • start out,
  • terminate,
  • see error of ways,
  • deform,
  • tailor,
  • brand name,
  • trade name,
  • unblock,
  • indorse,
  • low-down,
  • calumny,
  • unskilled,
  • rent,
  • pee-pee,
  • deport,
  • patch,
  • translate,
  • assoil,
  • unloosen,
  • shit,
  • reenforcement,
  • defense department,
  • change by reversal,
  • recognise,
  • confirm,
  • recognize,
  • colorize,
  • dreary,
  • adjourn,
  • dingy,
  • lenify,
  • pretermit,
  • placate,
  • opt out,
  • give up,
  • lay to rest,
  • cutting,
  • food color,
  • regorge,
  • proceeds,
  • retaliate,
  • public square,
  • defensive structure,
  • assuage,
  • turning,
  • snub,
  • elaborate,
  • devoid,
  • sort out,
  • instigate,
  • trend,
  • coating,
  • summons,
  • polish,
  • abye,
  • sorrow,
  • crap,
  • back out,
  • concentrate,
  • self-justification,
  • unclutter,
  • authorize,
  • throw up,
  • brandmark,
  • stand,
  • skip,
  • spoilt,
  • smear,
  • liberate,
  • mention,
  • takings,
  • take down,
  • routine,
  • pray,
  • cake,
  • food coloring,
  • suffer,
  • snip,
  • slim,
  • send away,
  • gain,
  • necessitate,
  • clip,
  • take up,
  • occupy,
  • draw off,
  • mown,
  • lease,
  • summon,
  • seduce,
  • foregone,
  • defensive measure,
  • re-formed,
  • clear up,
  • clumsy,
  • use up,
  • mending,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • wanting,
  • help oneself,
  • choose,
  • want,
  • establish,
  • creep,
  • call back,
  • chopper,
  • decoct,
  • swallow,
  • yield,
  • veer,
  • conk out,
  • slue,
  • uncollectible,
  • reach,
  • pull away,
  • skate over,
  • tour,
  • asperse,
  • work,
  • chip at,
  • pelage,
  • get married,
  • trimmed,
  • burn,
  • change state,
  • marque,
  • comment,
  • flesh out,
  • subscribe to,
  • forgetful,
  • actuate,
  • second power,
  • gelded,
  • catch up with,
  • skimp over,
  • shortage,
  • foreshorten,
  • defecate,
  • abduce,
  • write out,
  • be contrite,
  • get,
  • defense force,
  • loose,
  • reverse,
  • take a shit,
  • vindicated,
  • endorse,
  • drear,
  • dishonor,
  • cut up,
  • study,
  • remove,
  • fill,
  • stimulate,
  • aver,
  • drop,
  • slanted,
  • sword,
  • whitewash,
  • postulate,
  • incapable,
  • slide down,
  • dishonour,
  • firebrand,
  • film,
  • hush up,
  • break,
  • controvert,
  • part,
  • cower,
  • rubric,
  • gash,
  • big,
  • ca-ca,
  • exculpation,
  • bow out,
  • denigration,
  • rick,
  • feather,
  • overtop,
  • earn,
  • excision,
  • musical accompaniment,
  • cut off,
  • turn out,
  • go down,
  • sprain,
  • unfreeze,
  • upbraid,
  • venial,
  • upchuck,
  • fall in,
  • release,
  • nontaxable,
  • costless,
  • badness,
  • diss,
  • collapse,
  • brush off,
  • colouration,
  • funding,
  • bypast,
  • forswear,
  • top,
  • geld,
  • pay,
  • lead,
  • ruefulness,
  • spark,
  • defense reaction,
  • front crawl,
  • hold up,
  • flex,
  • low,
  • straighten out,
  • slashed,
  • represent,
  • wee,
  • strike,
  • semblance,
  • go under,
  • decipherable,
  • ferment,
  • indemnify,
  • buffer,
  • bout,
  • stigma,
  • show penitence,
  • response,
  • back away,
  • calumniate,
  • behave,
  • cat,
  • follow,
  • impenitent,
  • wee-wee,
  • inhume,
  • conjoin,
  • repress,
  • uphold,
  • realize,
  • patronage,
  • slash,
  • satisfying,
  • keep going,
  • unequal,
  • fabricate,
  • underpin,
  • champion,
  • cutting off,
  • scarcely,
  • attend to,
  • departed,
  • puddle,
  • cringe,
  • retreat,
  • water under the bridge,
  • usher out,
  • crystalize,
  • shortstop,
  • stock warrant,
  • bear,
  • drop down,
  • defame,
  • be sorry,
  • apologia,
  • unretentive,
  • stinger,
  • lay down,
  • attaint,
  • resolve,
  • lame,
  • scummy,
  • light,
  • discharge,
  • abide,
  • eat up,
  • correct,
  • give notice,
  • submit,
  • steel,
  • self-mortification,
  • dismal,
  • indemnity,
  • repent,
  • supplication,
  • appease,
  • no-good,
  • adopt,
  • pass,
  • sustenance,
  • innocent,
  • fumbling,
  • wrick,
  • make out,
  • aby,
  • crawling,
  • defense lawyers,
  • go bad,
  • barely,
  • backup,
  • lacking,
  • surface,
  • restore,
  • put down,
  • rueful,
  • disengage,
  • conserve,
  • make water,
  • throw,
  • destitute,
  • blur,
  • harmonise,
  • gloomy,
  • daub,
  • pacify,
  • shortfall,
  • fight,
  • guide,
  • financial backing,
  • recall,
  • issue,
  • deplorable,
  • heal,
  • service,
  • plow,
  • look at,
  • forged,
  • regret,
  • explode,
  • go,
  • wed,
  • doctor,
  • cesspool,
  • assistant,
  • fallible,
  • myopic,
  • accommodate,
  • gone,
  • take away,
  • remunerate,
  • net,
  • patronise,
  • remission of sin,
  • unequal to,
  • trip,
  • miss,
  • hapless,
  • blemish,
  • shed light on,
  • expatiate,
  • sack,
  • concede,
  • colourise,
  • spark off,
  • guard,
  • look out over,
  • consider,
  • creeping,
  • manufacture,
  • financial support,
  • attend,
  • no-count,
  • bring out,
  • render,
  • crop,
  • become,
  • smithy,
  • free people,
  • quash,
  • degrade,
  • look backward,
  • ask,
  • documentation,
  • make believe,
  • acknowledgment,
  • unforesightful,
  • lucubrate,
  • resolution,
  • take over,
  • offset,
  • unremorseful,
  • unawares,
  • spell,
  • clean,
  • living,
  • slim down,
  • good turn,
  • put up,
  • restitution,
  • well-defined,
  • measly,
  • subjugate,
  • intromit,
  • pull out,
  • draw,
  • exoneration.
  •regret
  • Regretted,
  • be disturbed,
  • wept over,
  • is sorry for,
  • kick oneself,
  • look back,
  • have compunctions,
  • cry over,
  • being sorry for,
  • felt remorse,
  • feels remorse,
  • looking back,
  • be sorry for,
  • repine,
  • have qualms,
  • weep over,
  • cry over spilled milk,
  • feel uneasy.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • bolster up,
  • paltry,
  • think better of,
  • cite,
  • sorrowful,
  • defense,
  • affront,
  • deficiency,
  • reform,
  • help,
  • plead ignorance,
  • brand,
  • expound,
  • make concessions,
  • libel,
  • plead guilty,
  • explicate,
  • slur,
  • mourn,
  • regretful,
  • bad,
  • take back,
  • reproach,
  • defence,
  • feel remorse,
  • gloss over,
  • imperfect,
  • insult,
  • blot,
  • make excuses,
  • slander,
  • back down,
  • disgrace,
  • short,
  • inadequacy,
  • mince,
  • alibi,
  • worm out of,
  • vindication,
  • exempt,
  • insufficient,
  • Gloze,
  • contrite,
  • miserable,
  • inadequate,
  • defect,
  • carve,
  • condone,
  • remorseful,
  • pitiable,
  • alibi out of,
  • apologetic,
  • gloss,
  • scarce,
  • interpret,
  • beg indulgence,
  • deficit,
  • dearth,
  • deplore,
  • pare,
  • espouse,
  • coloured,
  • vouch,
  • pitiful,
  • relieve,
  • deficient,
  • colors,
  • reduce,
  • plea,
  • smooth over,
  • beg off,
  • chop,
  • warrant,
  • incompetent,
  • pathetic,
  • apology,
  • coat,
  • prune,
  • cut,
  • compensate,
  • bewail,
  • extenuate,
  • bemoan,
  • colours,
  • sorry,
  • squirm out of,
  • shortcoming,
  • assist,
  • give way,
  • allege,
  • soften,
  • coloration,
  • feel sorry,
  • let-off,
  • free,
  • extenuating,
  • apologize for,
  • excuse me,
  • defective,
  • varnish,
  • explain,
  • justification,
  • piteous,
  • palliate,
  • penitent,
  • eat your words,
  • colouring,
  • lack.

Paraphrases for Apologize:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    apologizes.
  • Interjection
    apologise.
  • Verb, past tense
    apologised, apologise.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    apologise.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    apologises.
  • Verb, base form
    apologise.

• Independent

  • Noun, plural
    rationales, pardons, justifications, pretexts.
  • Verb, past tense
    lied.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    disculpo.
  • Verb, base form
    pardon, atone, condone, absolve.

• Other Related

  • Noun, plural
    Apologies, excuses.
  • Interjection
    excuses.
  • Verb, base form
    forgive.

Antonyms for Apologize:

• v.

  • express remorse, regret
    defy.

Homophones for Apologize:

• applique, apologia, aphyllous, applesauce cake, afl-cio, apelike, apple sauce, appaloosa, apoplexy, applesauce, apologue, aplasia, abls, applejack, abulic, apologise, apple juice, ablaze, aboulic, avulse, aplysia, appalachia, apology, abolish, applause.