REAL SAT
Terms
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- abut
- to touch the end or boundary line
- accost
- to speak to
- accouter
- to dress
- acerbity
- sourness, bitterness
- Achillean
- invulnerable
- actuary
- insurance officer
- actuate
- move to action
- addendum
- something to be added
- adamant
- any substance of exceeding hardness or inpenetrability
- addle
- make inefficient or worthless, muddle
- adduce
- bring forward for consideration
- adieu inter
- Good bye, farewell
- adjudge
- award by formal decision
- adjuration
- a vehement appeal
- adjutant
- Auxilary
- admonition
- gentle reprimand
- advert
- to refer incidentally
- aeronaut
- one who navigates the air, a baloonist.
- aerostat
- any apparatus floating or sustained by the air.
- aerostatics
- the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties
- affectation
- a studied attempt.
- aggress
- to make first attack
- aide-de-camp
- an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general
- albeit
- even though
- albino
- a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
- 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.
- allay
- calm the violence, mitigate
- allude
- refer by suggestion
- alluvion
- flood
- altercate
- to contend angrily or zealously in words
- amalgam
- an alloy of mercury and another metal
- amatory
- designed to excite love
- amenable
- willing to submit
- amour
- illicit love afair
- ampere
- unit of electric-current strength
- anhydrous
- withered
- animadversion
- the utterance of criticism or censure
- anode
- the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters and electrolyte or the like
- antechamber
- a waiting room for those who seek audience
- antedate
- assign a date earlier than actual one
- antemeridian
- before noon
- antemundane
- time before creation of earth
- anthracite
- hard coal
- antilogy
- inconsistency in ideas
- antiphon
- a response or alteration of responses, generally musical
- antiphony
- an anthem or other composition sung responsively
- antipodes
- place or region on the opposite side of earth
- antiquate
- to make out of date
- antistrophe
- the inversion of terms in successive classes.
- aphorism
- proverb
- apogee
- climax
- apostate
- false
- apothecary
- one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions
- apotheosis
- deification
- apposite
- appropriate
- apposition
- act of placing side by side
- approbation
- sanction
- arbiter
- chosen one by mutual consent of parties in dispute to decide matters
- arboreal
- pertaining to tree
- arrant
- notoriously bad
- arrear
- something overdue unpaid
- arrogate
- take, especially without grounds.
- artesian well
- a very deep well. Water rises due to underground pressure
- askance
- with a side or indirect glance or meaning
- asperity
- harshness of temper
- assay
- the chemical analysis of an alloy ore
- attache
- a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy
- augur
- to predict
- aural
- pertaining to ear
- auriferous
- containing gold
- auspice
- protecting guidence
- autarchy
- unrestricted power
- aver
- assert as fact
- avidity
- greediness
- barring
- apart from
- batten
- narrow strip of wood
- bedlam
- madhouse
- bellicose
- warlike
- benefice
- church treasury
- berth
- train cot
- beset
- attack on all sides
- bestrew
- to cover or sprinkle with strewn things
- betimes
- in good season or time
- bibulous
- fond of drinking
- bier
- a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying corpse to grave.
- bight
- a slightly receding bay between headlands.
- blase
- sated with pleasure
- blazon
- make widely known
- blithe
- joyous
- ble
- the trunk or body of tree
- boll
- a round pod or seed-capsule
- bombardier
- a person in charge of mortars, bombs, shells
- boorish
- rude
- borough
- an incorporated village or town
- Bowdlerize
- to expurgate in editing by omitting words or passages
- bowler
- in cricket, the player who delivers ball
- brae
- hillside
- bravado
- agressive display of boldness
- bray
- loud harsh sound, like cry of an ass or the blast of horn.
- braze
- decorate with brass.
- brazier
- an open pan or basin for holding live coals
- breaker
- one who trains horses, dogs
- bric-a-brac
- objects of curiosity or for decoration
- brigand
- one who lives by robbery and plunder.