SAT Vocab 2 Flashcards
allegory n.
The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
alleviate v.
To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
alley n.
A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
alliance n.
Any combination or union for some common purpose.
allot v.
To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
allotment n.
Portion.
allude v.
To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
allusion n.
An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
alluvion n.
Flood.
ally n.
A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
almanac n.
A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
aloof adv.
Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
altar n.
Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
alter v.
To make change in.
alteration n.
Change or modification.
altercate v.
To contend angrily or zealously in words.
alternate n.
One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
alternative n.
Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
altitude n.
Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
alto n.
The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
altruism n.
Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
altruist n.
One who advocates or practices altruism.
amalgam n.
An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
amalgamate v.
To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
amateur adj.
Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
amatory adj.
Designed to excite love.
ambidextrous adj.
Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
ambiguous adj.
Having a double meaning.
ambitious adj.
Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
ambrosial adj.
Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
ambulance n.
A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
ambulate v.
To walk about.
ambush n.
The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
ameliorate v.
To relieve, as from pain or hardship.
amenable adj.
Willing and ready to submit.
Americanism n.
A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
amicable adj.
Done in a friendly spirit.
amity n.
Friendship.
amorous adj.
Having a propensity for falling in love.
amorphous adj.
Without determinate shape.
amour n.
A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
ampere n.
The practical unit of electric-current strength.
ampersand n.
The character &; and.
amphibious adj.
Living both on land and in water.
amphitheater n.
An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
amplitude n.
Largeness.
amply adv.
Sufficiently.
amputate v.
To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
amusement n.
Diversion.
anachronism n.
Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
anagram n.
The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
analogous adj.
Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
analogy n.
Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
analyst n.
One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
analyze v.
To examine minutely or critically.
anarchy n.
Absence or utter disregard of government.
anathema n.
Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
anatomy n.
That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
ancestry n.
One’s ancestors collectively.
anecdote n.
A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
anemia n.
Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
anemic adj.
Affected with anemia.
anemometer n.
An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
anesthetic adj.
Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
anew adv.
Once more.
angelic adj.
Saintly.
Anglophobia n.
Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
Anglo-Saxon n.
The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
angular adj.
Sharp-cornered.
anhydrous adj.
Withered.
animadversion n.
The utterance of criticism or censure.
animadvert v.
To pass criticism or censure.
animalcule n.
An animal of microscopic smallness.
animate v.
To make alive.
animosity n.
Hatred.
annalist n.
Historian.
annals n.
A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
annex v.
To add or affix at the end.
annihilate v.
To destroy absolutely.
annotate v.
To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
