Sat Power Vocab Chapter 11 - 15

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Ameliorate

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To make better or more tolerable

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Amenable

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Obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable

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Amenity

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Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature

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Amiable

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Friendly; agreeable

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Amid

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In the middle of

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Amnesty

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An official pardon for a group of peoplw who have violated a law or policy

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Amoral

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Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good or bad, neither moral or immoral; without moral feelings

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Amorous

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Feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense; in love; relating to love

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Amorphous

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Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike

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Anachronism

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Something out of place in time or history; an congruity

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Analogy

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A comparison of one thing to another; similarity

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Anarchy

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Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder

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Anathema

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Something or someone loathed or detested

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Ancillary

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Subordinate; providing assistance

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Anecdote

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A short account of a humurous or revealing innident

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Angst

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Anxiety; fear; dread

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Anguish

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Agonizing physical or mental pain

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Animosity

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Resentment; hostility; ill will

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Annex

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To add or attatch

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Annuity

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An annual allowance or income; the annual interest payment on an investment; any regular allowance or income

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Anomaly

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An abberation; an irregularity; a deviation

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Antecedent

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Someone or something that went before; something that provides model for something that came after it

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Antedate

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To be older than; to have come before

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Anterior

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Situated in front

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Anthology

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A collection, especially of literary works

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Anthropomorphic

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Ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman animals or objects

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Antipathy

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Firm dislike; a dislike

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Antipodal

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Situated on opposite sides of the Earth; exactly opposite

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Antiquity

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Ancientness; ancient times

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Antitheses

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The direct opposite

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Aparthed

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The former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa

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Apathy

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Lack of interest; lack of feeling

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Aperture

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An opening

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Apex

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Highest point

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Aphorism

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A brief, often witty saying; a proverb

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Apocalypse

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A prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world

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Apocryphal

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Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious

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Apogee

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The most distant point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite

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Apoplexy

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Stroke

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Apostasy

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Abandonment or rejection of faith or loyalty

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Apotheosis

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Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something

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Appalling

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Causing horror or consternation

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Apparition

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A ghost or ghostly object

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Appease

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To soothe; to pacifiy by giving on to

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Appellation

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A name

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Appendage

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Something added on to something else; a supplement

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Apportion

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To distribute proportionally; to divide in to portions.

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Apposite

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Distinctly suitable; pertinent

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Appraise

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To estimate the value or quality of; to judge

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Appreciate

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To increase in value

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Apprehensive

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Worried; anxious