Vocabulary "a" words

Decades ago I kept index cards as bookmarks and wrote words I didn't know, or didn't know for sure, along with the source sentence, then looked up the words later if not needed immediately. Some books were great for card accumulation. Everyone hated me and my words, nobody could stand me. Much later after the words were internalized and used for thinking, used as pathways of thought, I'd look back at the cards and wonder how I managed without them. They all seemed so elementary and stupid, and I mean stew pud.

It's embarrassing.

The same thing happens now online with all these lawyers all over the place except the index cards are mere files and now they never get looked at anymore as the cards did once they're typed, and not handwritten as before. The file on the desktop titled "words" has ... oh, only 1,300 files. Seemed like more than that.

It happens with the files, as it did with the index cards, thousands of them, that more than one entry is made for the same word, meaning some difficulty there sinking in from one encounter to the next and some words get looked up twice. The pattern was that negative words did not sink in so readily but positive words are eagerly adopted and used.

Here's your chance to prove to yourself how much smarter you are than I.

These are the "a" words encountered in English reading. Indented means I'm embarrassed to show them, but there they are. You're going to think, what a dummkopf. The unindented asterisks I still don't know very well and do not use those words for thinking. Here goes.

Pop quiz.

*aut inveniam viam aut faciam
     * abattoir
     * abject
     * absolve
* absquatulate
* abstemious
     * abstruse
* acedia
     * ad finem
* addlepated
     * adduce
* adianoeta
     * adumbrated
*  advertorial
* Aebleskiver
* agglutination
     * agnomen
* agonal
* arorism
* ajouré
     * Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
* alluvion
* alopecic
* Amalek
* Amanuensis
     * ambit
     * amduat
* Amicus Curiae
* amour propre
* amyloid plaques
* anacoluthon
* analyte
* anaphora
* anaphore
* anatid
* anatine
* andante
* animadversion
     * annuity
     * anodyne
*anole
*anomic
*anomie
* anorak
* anosma
* Anosognosia
* antinomian
* antinomy
* aperçus
     * aphorism
* aphotic
     * apologia
* apophasis
* aporia
     *apotheosis
* apotropaic
     * apparatchik
     * apposition
* approbation
* aprioristic
     * arancini (little oranges) (filled rice balls)
* Arbalist
* architectonic
     * architrave
* archon
     * argent
     * argumentum ad misericordiam
     * arpeggio
* arriviste
* asceticism
     * aspergic
     * assortative
* aston
* asymptote
     * attainder
     * au fait
     * auf wiedersehen
     * auteur
     * auto-da-fé
* Autochthon
     * autogyro
* autophagy
* autotroph
     * ave ataque vale
* avout