Gruber's SAT vocabulary group 8 amorous - ape
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- amorous
- loving; showing of feeling
- amorphous
- shapeless
- amphibious
- able to live on both land and water
- ample
- roomy;abundant
- amplify
- to make larger or greater
- amulet
- a charm worn to keep evil away
- anachronism
- something out of place or time
- analgesic
- drug that relieves pain
- analogy
- similarity or comparison
- anarchy
- absence of government; lawlessness
- anathema
-
a person or thing to be avoided; object of intense dislike
(anathematize=curse) - ancillary
- helping; subordinate
- anecdote
- a short, entertaining story
- anent
- regarding; concerning
- anguish
- great suffering or grief
- anhydrous
- w/o water
- animadversion
- critical remark
- animate
- give life to
- animosity
- hatred; hostility
- animus
- hostile feeling
- annals
- historical records
- anneal
- to heat and then cool again; to lessen brittleness and toughen by heating and cooling
- annihilate
- to totally destroy
- annuity
- specified income payable at stated intervals
- annul
- to cancel to do away with
- anaomalous
- abormal; inconsistent
- anon
- soon
- anoxia
- lack of oxygen
- antecedent
- that which goes before something else
- andediluvian
- very old-fashioned; primitive; very old
- anterior
- located in the front or foward
- anteroom
- a lobby or waiting room
- anthem
- song of praise
- anthology
- collection of literary works
- antropoid
- resembling man
- anthrpomorphic
- attributing human form to objects,gods, ect.
- antic
- playful or silly act; prank
- anticlimax
- something unimportant coming after something important
- antidote
-
a remedy; a counteractive
DON'T CONFUSE with ANTECDOTE - antipathy
- intense dislike
- antipodes
- opposite sides of the earth
- antiquated
- ancient; extremely old
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antithesis
antithetical -
direct opposite
directly opposing - apathy
- indifference; lack of feeling
- ape (v)
- to imitate or to mimic