SAT Vocab A-B

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avert: v. To turn away or aside.
absolve: v. To free from sin or its penalties.
bibliomania: n. The passion for collecting books.
anecdote: n. A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
actuary: n. An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
alteration: n. Change or modification.
annotate: v. To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
bestrew: v. To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
agile: adj. Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
antiseptic: n. Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
anthropology: n. The science of man in general.
blazon: v. To make widely or generally known.
beatify: v. To make supremely happy.
automaton: n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
abed: adv. In bed; on a bed.
absence: n. The fact of not being present or available.
adjutant: adj. Auxiliary.
beneficiary: n. One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
acerbity: n. Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
aversion: n. A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
asperity: n. Harshness or roughness of temper.
amusement: n. Diversion.
assay: n. The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
ascension: n. The act of rising.
advocacy: n. The act of pleading a cause.
acquittal: n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
alluvion: n. Flood.
buffoon: n. A clown.
animosity: n. Hatred.
annuity: n. An annual allowance, payment, or income.
accession: n. Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
achromatic: adj. Colorless,
brevity: n. Shortness of duration.
bumper: n. A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
antispasmodic: adj. Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
benignant: adj. Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
abeyance: n. A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
bilateral: adj. Two-sided.
appreciable: adj. Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
acknowledgment: n. Recognition.
archdeacon: n. A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
alto: n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
analogy: n. Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
assassination: n. Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
braggart: n. A vain boaster.
boll: n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
boycott: v. To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
bridle: n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
annals: n. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
advertiser: n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
allegory: n. The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
almanac: n. A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
buoyant: adj. Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
assassinate: v. To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
autonomous: adj. Self-governing.
benign: adj. Good and kind of heart.
alcove: n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
attache: n. A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
beset: v. To attack on all sides.
berth: n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
aldermanship: n. The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
adherence: n. Attachment.
bailiff: n. An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
arboretum: n. A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
acrid: adj. Harshly pungent or bitter.
alder: n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
alliance: n. Any combination or union for some common purpose.
absorption: n. The act or process of absorbing.
altar: n. Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
barcarole: n. A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
bullock: n. An ox.
biography: n. A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
anticlimax: n. A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
barograph: n. An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
admonish: v. To warn of a fault.
airy: adj. Delicate, ethereal.
affect: v. To act upon
breach: n. The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
adieu: inter. Good-by; farewell.
bray: n. A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
Antarctic: adj. Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
brine: n. Water saturated with salt.
badger: v. To pester.
animadvert: v. To pass criticism or censure.
austere: adj. Severely simple; unadorned.
bolster: v. To support, as something wrong.
antemeridian: adj. Before noon.
bureau: n. A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
archetype: n. A prototype.
annunciation: n. Proclamation.
arcade: n. A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
baton: n. An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
anthropomorphous: adj. Having or resembling human form.
bacterium: n. A microbe.
acreage: n. Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
Anglophobia: n. Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
atrocious: adj. Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
accelerate: v. To move faster.
bigamist: n. One who has two spouses at the same time.
adulterant: n. An adulterating substance.
analogous: adj. Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
benevolence: n. Any act of kindness or well-doing.
broach: v. To mention, for the first time.
actuate: v. To move or incite to action.
bolero: n. A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
brogan: n. A coarse, heavy shoe.
aspiration: n. An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
arrogant: adj. Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
addendum: n. Something added, or to be added.
bumptious: adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
autocracy: n. Absolute government.
appraise: v. To estimate the money value of.
antislavery: adj. Opposed to human slavery.
bravado: n. An aggressive display of boldness.
adjudge: v. To award or bestow by formal decision.
aboriginal: adj. Primitive; unsophisticated.
burgher: n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
avarice: n. Passion for getting and keeping riches.
alley: n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
belay: v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
bombardier: n. A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
bedlam: n. Madhouse.
athwart: adv. From side to side.
ally: n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
bawl: v. To proclaim by outcry.
besmear: v. To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
aforesaid: adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
anonymous: adj. Of unknown authorship.
bosom: n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
assiduous: adj. Diligent.
bleak: adj. Desolate.
biology: n. The science of life or living organisms.
apparent: adj. Easily understood.
ascendant: adj. Dominant.
abduction: n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
ascribe: v. To assign as a quality or attribute.
assimilate: v. To adapt.
Americanism: n. A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
annalist: n. Historian.
atone: v. To make amends for.
bight: n. A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
becalm: v. To make quiet.
betide: v. To happen to or befall.
accordion: n. A portable free-reed musical instrument.
aristocracy: n. A hereditary nobility
bibliography: n. A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
arraign: v. To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
account: n. A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
apology: n. A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
bronchus: n. Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
astute: adj. Keen in discernment.
abbey: n. The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
breaker: n. One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
buffoonery: n. Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
bequeath: v. To give by will.
bass: adj. Low in tone or compass.
acidify: v. To change into acid.
aural: adj. Of or pertaining to the ear.
abstinence: n. Self denial.
apiary: n. A place where bees are kept.
bombard: v. To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
actuality: n. Any reality.
afire: adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
ampersand: n. The character &; and.
avidity: n. Greediness.
accessory: n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
acclaim: v. To utter with a shout.
aerial: adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
assuage: v. To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
anteroom: n. A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
antecede: v. To precede.
arrival: n. A coming to stopping-place or destination.
amenable: adj. Willing and ready to submit.
admittance: n. Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
absorb: v. To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
arboriculture: n. The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
allotment: n. Portion.
adamant: n. Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
alien: n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
allusion: n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
asexual: adj. Having no distinct sexual organs.
academy: n. Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
aggravate: v. To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
atomizer: n. An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
artful: adj. Characterized by craft or cunning.
acquit: v. To free or clear, as from accusation.
antenatal: adj. Occurring or existing before birth.
anthracite: n. Hard coal.
archaeology: n. The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
abdominal: n. Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
batten: n. A narrow strip of wood.
bemoan: v. To lament
affiliate: n. Some auxiliary person or thing.
accumulate: v. To become greater in quantity or number.
amity: n. Friendship.
betimes: adv. In good season or time.
bronchitis: n. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
abut: v. To touch at the end or boundary line.
accomplice: n. An associate in wrong-doing.
aberration: n. Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
avow: v. To declare openly.
bodice: n. A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
baste: v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
blemish: n. A mark that mars beauty.
accompanist: n. One who or that which accompanies.
autonomy: n. Self-government.
abscission: n. The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
ambulance: n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
aerostat: n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
apposition: n. The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
brandish: v. To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
affable: adj. Easy to approach.
awaken: v. To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
brusque: adj. Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
aerostatics: n. The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
anemic: adj. Affected with anemia.
balsam: n. A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
anew: adv. Once more.
acquire: v. To get as one's own.
acid: n. A sour substance.
bellicose: adj. Warlike.
bewilder: v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
bomb: n. A hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
bristle: n. One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
betrothal: n. Engagement to marry.
anticyclone: n. An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
arrange: v. To put in definite or proper order.
amputate: v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
antique: adj. Pertaining to ancient times.
antiquary: n. One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
allot: v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
bulwark: n. Anything that gives security or defense.
benefit: n. Helpful result.
atheism: n. The denial of the existence of God.
biped: n. An animal having two feet.
assassin: n. One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
archaism: n. Obsolescence.
abjure: v. To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
aura: n. Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
aloof: adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
archbishop: n. The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
aroma: n. An agreeable odor.
autocrat: n. Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
arrangement: n. The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
autopsy: n. The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
accursed: adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
antecedent: n. One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
acquiesce: v. To comply; submit.
bountiful: adj. Showing abundance.
averse: adj. Reluctant.
alabaster: n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
bilingual: adj. Speaking two languages.
ascetic: adj. Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
amphitheater: n. An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
arborescent: adj. Having the nature of a tree.
accompany: v. To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
adduce: v. To bring forward or name for consideration.
aboveboard: adv. & adj. Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
abyss: n. Bottomless gulf.
bore: v. To weary by tediousness or dullness.
beget: v. To produce by sexual generation.
armful: n. As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
abscess: n. A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
ambidextrous: adj. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
angular: adj. Sharp-cornered.
able-bodied: adj. Competent for physical service.
batter: n. A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
bowler: n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
benison: n. Blessing.
antonym: n. A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
bitterness: n. Acridity, as to the taste.
antagonism: n. Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
agitate: v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
autarchy: n. Unrestricted power.
aye: adv. An expression of assent.
by-law: n. A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
benignity: n. Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
Achillean: adj. Invulnerable.
accost: v. To speak to.
alcoholism: n. A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
acknowledge: v. To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
blase: adj. Sated with pleasure.
barring: prep. Apart from.
adhere: v. To stick fast or together.
bric-a-brac: n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
afterthought: n. A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
bedaub: v. To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
ailment: n. Slight sickness.
ablution: n. A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
amorous: adj. Having a propensity for falling in love.
auricular: adj. Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
addle: v. To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
abstruse: adj. Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
anxious: adj. Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
brokerage: n. The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
bevel: n. Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
brigand: n. One who lives by robbery and plunder.
accomplish: v. To bring to pass.
academic: adj. Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
aide-de-camp: n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
abnegate: v. To renounce (a right or privilege).
abridgment: n. A condensed form as of a book or play.
accustom: v. To make familiar by use.
aeronaut: n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
adjacent: n. That which is near or bordering upon.
anode: n. The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
analyze: v. To examine minutely or critically.
arrear: n. Something overdue and unpaid.
biograph: n. A bibliographical sketch or notice.
bestride: v. To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
appertain: v. To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
altitude: n. Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
accuse: v. To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
annihilate: v. To destroy absolutely.
avocation: n. Diversion.
beau: n. An escort or lover.
adumbrate: v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
accouter: v. To dress.
alienate: v. To cause to turn away.
appall: v. To fill with dismay or horror.
ardor: n. Intensity of passion or affection.
banal: adj. Commonplace.
augur: v. To predict.
adroit: adj. Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
aver: v. To assert as a fact.
abrasion: n. That which is rubbed off.
acoustic: adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
benevolent: adj. Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
blithesome: adj. Cheerful.
append: v. To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
ambush: n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
broadcast: adj. Disseminated far and wide.
accept: v. To take when offered.
bier: n. A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
ascent: n. A rising, soaring, or climbing.
album: n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
bigamy: n. The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
alleviate: v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
advent: n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
abbess: n. The lady superior of a nunnery.
apothecary: n. One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
brazier: n. An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
acute: adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment.
belie: v. To misrepresent.
authentic: adj. Of undisputed origin.
antediluvian: adj. Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
assailant: n. One who attacks.
bravo: interj. Well done.
analyst: n. One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
bask: v. To make warm by genial heat.
bethink: v. To remind oneself.
baffle: v. To foil or frustrate.
aristocrat: n. A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
awry: adv. & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
armory: n. An arsenal.
beneficial: adj. Helpful.
assonate: v. To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
anemia: n. Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
amalgam: n. An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
aeronautics: n. the art or practice of flying aircraft
anagram: n. The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
buoyancy: n. Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
Anglo-Saxon: n. The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
browbeat: v. To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
assonant: adj. Having resemblance of sound.
agrarian: adj. Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
beneficent: adj. Characterized by charity and kindness.
abdomen: n. In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.
apprehensible: adj. Capable of being conceived.
allude: v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
acquisition: n. Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
beatitude: n. Any state of great happiness.
audition: n. The act or sensation of hearing.
aggression: n. An unprovoked attack.
arbitrate: v. To act or give judgment as umpire.
bereave: v. To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
anthology: n. A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
aviary: n. A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
botany: n. The science that treats of plants.
anachronism: n. Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
abbot: n. The superior of a community of monks.
ancestry: n. One's ancestors collectively.
acrimony: n. Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
befriend: v. To be a friend to, especially when in need.
ado: n. unnecessary activity or ceremony.
autumnal: adj. Of or pertaining to autumn.
bestial: adj. Animal.
apostasy: n. A total departure from one's faith or religion.
ache: v. To be in pain or distress.
archipelago: n. Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
antedate: v. To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
brae: n. Hillside.
absurd: adj. Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
advert: v. To refer incidentally.
aphorism: n. Proverb.
abdicate: v. To give up (royal power or the like).
adoration: n. Profound devotion.
beseech: v. To implore.
blatant: adj. Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous.
accusation: n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
bodily: adj. Corporeal.
botanize: v. To study plant-life.
alternate: n. One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
abusive: adj. Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
avalanche: n. The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
absent-minded: adj. Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
bole: n. The trunk or body of a tree.
approbation: n. Sanction.
affluence: n. A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
arid: adj. Very dry.
appellate: adj. Capable of being appealed to.
atrocity: n. Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
burgess: n. In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
anemometer: n. An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
bombast: n. Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
affront: n. An open insult or indignity.
Augustinian: adj. Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
benefice: n. A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
alienable: adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
akin: adj. Of similar nature or qualities.
acme: n. The highest point, or summit.
azure: n. The color of the sky.
alias: n. An assumed name.
butt: v. To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
amalgamate: v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
abstain: v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
antechamber: n. A waiting room for those who seek audience.
antemundane: adj. Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
antiphony: n. An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
angelic: adj. Saintly.
apex: n. The highest point, as of a mountain.
animadversion: n. The utterance of criticism or censure.
athirst: adj. Wanting water.
anhydrous: adj. Withered.
antistrophe: n. The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
ante: v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
arbiter: n. One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
aggrandize: v. To cause to appear greatly.
aggrieve: v. To give grief or sorrow to.
adulterate: v. To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
assets: n. pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
adjuration: n. A vehement appeal.
acumen: n. Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
begrudge: v. To envy one of the possession of.
authenticity: n. The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
abject: adj. Sunk to a low condition.
artless: adj. Ingenuous.
bursar: n. A treasurer.
abrupt: adj. Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
ballad: n. Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
borough: n. An incorporated village or town.
archaic: adj. Antiquated
adjacency: n. The state of being adjacent.
arbitrary: adj. Fixed or done capriciously.
admissible: adj. Having the right or privilege of entry.
ashen: adj. Pale.
baize: n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
ardent: adj. Burning with passion.
azalea: n. A flowering shrub.
befog: v. To confuse.
battalion: n. A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
apostle: n. Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
alternative: n. Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
alchemy: n. Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
assonance: n. Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
annual: adj. Occurring every year.
blithe: adj. Joyous.
acetate: n. A salt of acetic acid.
altercate: v. To contend angrily or zealously in words.
accurate: adj. Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
autobiography: n. The story of one's life written by himself.
antilogy: n. Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
auspice: n. favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
anterior: adj. Prior.
Artesian: well n. A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
antiquate: v. To make old or out of date.
administrator: n. One who manages affairs of any kind.
adversity: n. Misfortune.
auburn: adj. Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
actionable: adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
arrant: adj. Notoriously bad.
amorphous: adj. Without determinate shape.
betroth: v. To engage to marry.
brogue: n. Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
allege: v. To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
baleful: adj. Malignant.
albino: n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
amphibious: adj. Living both on land and in water.
assent: v. To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.
bide: v. To await.
Arthurian: adj. Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
atonement: n. Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
affix: v. To fasten.
apathy: n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
appropriate: adj. Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
bulrush: n. Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
accommodate: v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
abase: v. To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
bale: n. A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
bibliophile: n. One who loves books.
biennial: n. A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
abhorrent: adj. Very repugnant; hateful.
acquaintance: n. Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
alter: v. To make change in.
advocate: n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
amour: n. A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
alderman: n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
altruism: n. Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
antiphon: n. A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
assignee: n. One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
benefactor: n. A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
abidance: n. An abiding.
audible: adj. Loud enough to be heard.
ambitious: adj. Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
apogee: n. The climax.
absolution: n. Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
antipathize: v. To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
ambiguous: adj. Having a double meaning.
abundant: adj. Plentiful.
agglomerate: v. To pile or heap together.
aliment: n. That which nourishes.
askance: adv. With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
bibulous: adj. Fond of drinking.
bungle: v. To execute clumsily.
arbor: n. A tree.
aqueous: adj. Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
amicable: adj. Done in a friendly spirit.
augment: v. To make bigger.
aghast: adj. Struck with terror and amazement.
aggravation: n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
amatory: adj. Designed to excite love.
abhorrence: n. The act of detesting extremely.
afresh: adv. Once more, after rest or interval.
auriferous: adj. Containing gold.
abrade: v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
aspire: v. To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
ambrosial: adj. Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
arboreal: adj. Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
brigadier: n. General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
adherent: adj. Clinging or sticking fast.
anarchy: n. Absence or utter disregard of government.
braze: v. To make of or ornament with brass.
abomination: n. A very detestable act or practice.
anathema: n. Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
alienation: n. Estrangement.
apotheosis: n. Deification.
armada: n. A fleet of war-vessels.
alkali: n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
boatswain: n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
altruist: n. One who advocates or practices altruism.
adhesion: n. The state of being attached or joined.
access: n. A way of approach or entrance; passage.
antidote: n. Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
accede: v. To agree.
arrogate: v. To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
Baconian: adj. Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
abet: v. To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
alacrity: n. Cheerful willingness.
brethren: n. pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
boorish: adj. Rude.
Briticism: n. A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.
brigade: n. A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
allay: v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
acquaint: v. To make familiar or conversant.
abstemious: adj. Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
bureaucracy: n. Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
botanical: adj. Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
bauble: n. A trinket.
auxiliary: n. One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
baritone: adj. Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
belate: v. To delay past the proper hour.
acrimonious: adj. Full of bitterness.
blaspheme: v. To indulge in profane oaths.
blockade: n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
antitoxin: n. A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
animate: v. To make alive.
Britannia: n. The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
brooch: n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
amateur: adj. Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
anesthetic: adj. Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
acquiescence: n. Passive consent.
blaze: n. A vivid glowing flame.
albeit: conj. Even though.
aspirant: n. One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place.
apposite: adj. Appropriate.
acetic: adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
adverse: adj. Opposing or opposed.
anatomy: n. That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
admonition: n. Gentle reproof.
benediction: n. a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
antic: n. A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
abnormal: adj. Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
burnish: v. To make brilliant or shining.
abrogate: v. To abolish, repeal.
belle: n. A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
aqueduct: n. A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
bedeck: v. To cover with ornament.
butte: n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
alcohol: n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
accredit: v. To give credit or authority to.
ameliorate: v. To relieve, as from pain or hardship
aurora: n. A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
believe: v. To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
academician: n. A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
Antichrist: n. Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
accusatory: adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
audacious: adj. Fearless.
abscond: v. To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
archangel: n. An angel of high rank.
appease: v. To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
accompaniment: n. A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
abominate: v. To hate violently.
Bowdlerize: v. To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
breech: n. The buttocks.
affirmative: adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue.
artifice: n. Trickery.
assessor: n. An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
belligerent: adj. Manifesting a warlike spirit.
abominable: adj. Very hateful.
attorney-general: n. The chief law-officer of a government.
aggress: v. To make the first attack.
apprehend: v. To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
boisterous: adj. Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
afoot: adv. In progress.
birthright: n. A privilege or possession into which one is born.
accuracy: n. Exactness.
amply: adv. Sufficiently.
bustle: v. To hurry.
astringent: adj. Harsh in disposition or character.
accessible: adj. Approachable.
belittle: v. To disparage.
beck: v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
bromine: n. A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
ampere: n. The practical unit of electric-current strength.
bulbous: adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
animalcule: n. An animal of microscopic smallness.
apparition: n. Ghost.
abridge: v. To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
aborigines: n. The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
brotherhood: n. Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
assess: v. To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
ambulate: v. To walk about
appellation: n. The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
auricle: n. One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
amplitude: n. Largeness.
barometer: n. An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
adjunct: n. Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
affectation: n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
apostate: adj. False.
aggregate: n. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
aperture: n. Hole.
auditory: adj. Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
brimstone: n. Sulfur.
buttress: n. Any support or prop.
advisory: adj. Not mandatory.
antipodes: n. A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
attest: v. To certify as accurate, genuine, or true.
annex: v. To add or affix at the end.
brittle: adj. Fragile.

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