Quizlet SAT words from 'allegory' to 'anachronism'

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  1. allegory: The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
  2. alleviate: To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
  3. alley: A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
  4. alliance: Any combination or union for some common purpose.
  5. allot: To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
  6. allotment: Portion.
  7. allude: To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
  8. allusion: An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
  9. alluvion: Flood.
  10. ally: A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
  11. almanac: A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
  12. aloof: Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
  13. altar: Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
  14. alter: To make change in.
  15. alteration: Change or modification.
  16. altercate: To contend angrily or zealously in words.
  17. alternate: One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
  18. alternative: Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
  19. altitude: Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
  20. alto: The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
  21. altruism: Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
  22. altruist: One who advocates or practices altruism.
  23. amalgam: An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
  24. amalgamate: To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
  25. amateur: Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
  26. amatory: Designed to excite love.
  27. ambidextrous: Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
  28. ambiguous: Having a double meaning.
  29. ambitious: Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
  30. ambrosial: Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
  31. ambulance: A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
  32. ambulate: To walk about
  33. ambush: The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
  34. ameliorate: To relieve, as from pain or hardship
  35. amenable: Willing and ready to submit.
  36. Americanism: A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
  37. amicable: Done in a friendly spirit.
  38. amity: Friendship.
  39. amorous: Having a propensity for falling in love.
  40. amorphous: Without determinate shape.
  41. amour: A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
  42. ampere: The practical unit of electric-current strength.
  43. ampersand: The character &; and.
  44. amphibious: Living both on land and in water.
  45. amphitheater: An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
  46. amplitude: Largeness.
  47. amply: Sufficiently.
  48. amputate: To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
  49. amusement: Diversion.
  50. anachronism: Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.