SAT words from 'affable' to 'allege'
Words alphabetically from 'affable' to 'allege' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- affable
- Easy to approach.
- affect
- To act upon
- affectation
- A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
- affiliate
- Some auxiliary person or thing.
- affirmative
- Answering yes; to a question at issue.
- affix
- To fasten.
- affluence
- A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
- affront
- An open insult or indignity.
- afire
- & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
- afoot
- In progress.
- aforesaid
- Said in a preceding part or before.
- afresh
- Once more, after rest or interval.
- afterthought
- A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
- agglomerate
- To pile or heap together.
- aggrandize
- To cause to appear greatly.
- aggravate
- To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
- aggravation
- The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
- aggregate
- The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
- aggress
- To make the first attack.
- aggression
- An unprovoked attack.
- aggrieve
- To give grief or sorrow to.
- aghast
- Struck with terror and amazement.
- agile
- Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
- agitate
- To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
- agrarian
- Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
- aide-de-camp
- An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
- ailment
- Slight sickness.
- airy
- Delicate, ethereal.
- akin
- Of similar nature or qualities.
- alabaster
- A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
- alacrity
- Cheerful willingness.
- albeit conj
- Even though.
- albino
- A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
- album
- A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
- alchemy
- Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
- alcohol
- A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
- alcoholism
- A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
- alcove
- A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
- alder
- Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
- alderman
- A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
- aldermanship
- The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
- alias
- An assumed name.
- alien
- One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
- alienable
- Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
- alienate
- To cause to turn away.
- alienation
- Estrangement.
- aliment
- That which nourishes.
- alkali
- Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
- allay
- To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
- allege
- To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.