Thank you all for your replies. Please excuse me for taking this long to reply myself.
Ygor, I tried your solution but all I got was
abide,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=
abolish,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=
accomodate,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=,=
I'm using GNU Awk 3.0.3 under WinXP. Any ideas?