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SSAT Vocab 2 of 6
Benny's SSAT Words A-E (2)
| WORD | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| abstain | to refrain |
| abstract | theoretical; not concrete; difficult to understand |
| accentuate | to emphasize; to make prominent |
| acrimony | bitterness; anger |
| adulation | high praise; admiration |
| advocate | a supporter; a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
| aesthetic | pertaining to beauty; artistic |
| affirmation | agreement |
| aggregate | whole; total |
| agile | nimble; quick moving; light footed |
| agnostic | one who claims that the existence and nature of God is unknowable |
| alienated | socially disoriented; feeling distant or different from others |
| ambiguous | unclear; having more than one meaning |
| ambrosia | food that is delightful; the food of the gods |
| ample | plentiful; abundant |
| amplify | to increase; to expand |
| amulet | ornament that works as a charm against evil |
| analogous | comparable |
| annul | to nullify; cancel |
| anterior | near the front OPP:posterior |
| anthology | a collection of literary pieces |
| anthropomorphic | relating human traits to non-humans |
| antiquity | ancient times; object that is ancient |
| apocryphal | fictional; being of questionable authenticity |
| appall | shocking |
| arbitrary | randomly chosen; Uncertain; accidental; discretionary |
| arboreal | of or living in trees |
| archipelago | large group of islands |
| arsenal | place where weapons are stored |
| artifact | historical relic; any object made, modified, or used by people |
| artisan | a crafts person; a skilled manual worker |
| askew | crooked; turned or twisted to one side |
| aspersion | false rumor; slander |
| assertion | a declaration of truth; a statement |
| asylum | refuge; a place of protection |
| auditory | relating to hearing |
| augment | to expand; to increase; to add to |
| authoritarian | extremely strict; demanding obedience; dictatorial |
| autonomous | separate; independent |
| auxiliary | helpful; supportive |
| aversion | intense dislike |
| avert | to move away; to turn away |
| avow | to declare |
| awry | amiss;away from the expected course |
| axiom | premise; a well-known truth or saying |
| ballad | popular romantic song |
| belated | delayed; late |
| bisect | to divide into two equal halves |
| blasphemous | irreligious;grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred |
| blatant | very obvious; shameless |
| bleak | hopeless; |
| bolster | to support; to uphold |
| bountiful | abundant; plentiful |
| buffoon | fool; clown |
| burly | strong; solid |
| byway | back road |
| callous | insensitive; emotionally hard |
| camaraderie | chumminess; easy familiarity and sociability; friendship |
| causality | relationship between cause and effect |
| caustic | burning; sarcastic; harsh or corrosive in tone |
| coercion | force; compelling by force of authority; making someone do something |
| coherent | logical; understandable |
| cohesive | unified;organized in an easy-to-understand arrangement |
| collaborate | to work together |
| colloquial | informal speech or writing; conversational speech; sometimes slang |
| commemorate | remember with a ceremony or observation |
| commend | to praise |
| commute | to travel to work; OR to make less severe |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents; to fdraw up; to collect into a list |
| compliance | obedience |
| composure | calmness |
| comprehensive | complete; thorough |
| concave | a surface that is curved inward; OPP:Convex |
| conception | an idea; a concept |
| concur | to agree; to happen together |
| condemn | to blame; to sentence (as a criminal) |
| condescending | behaving with a superior attitude |
| confidant | a person in whom one shares secrets; a person you confide with |
| confiscate | appropriated; taken without permission or consent especially by public authority |
| confound | to baffle; to perplex |
| congruity | correspondence; harmony |
| connive | to conspire; to scheme |
| connoisseur | an expert |
| conscientious | hardworking; diligent |
| consensus | general agreement |
| consolation | act of comforting; alleviation of sorrow or mental distress |
| consolidate | to combine; to make stronger |
| conspicuous | very obvious |
| construe | to interpret; make sense of; assign a meaning to |
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