earnest² /ûrˈnist/

1. Payment given to confirm a contract (also earˈnest-money or earˈnest-penny)
2. A pledge
3. A sign or foretaste of what is to come
4. First-fruits

• airstrips
• air support
• air supports
• airt
• air taxi
• air taxis
• Asian pear
• Asiatic
• Asiaticism
• aside
• A-side
• aside from
• asides
• as if
• asinico
• asinicos
• asinine
• asininely
• asininities
• asininity
• ASIO
• as is
• as it comes
• as it were
• ask