Quizlet SAT words from 'authenticity' to 'bawl'

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  1. authenticity: The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
  2. autobiography: The story of one's life written by himself.
  3. autocracy: Absolute government.
  4. autocrat: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
  5. automaton: Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
  6. autonomous: Self-governing.
  7. autonomy: Self-government.
  8. autopsy: The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
  9. autumnal: Of or pertaining to autumn.
  10. auxiliary: One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
  11. avalanche: The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
  12. avarice: Passion for getting and keeping riches.
  13. aver: To assert as a fact.
  14. averse: Reluctant.
  15. aversion: A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
  16. avert: To turn away or aside.
  17. aviary: A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
  18. avidity: Greediness.
  19. avocation: Diversion.
  20. avow: To declare openly.
  21. awaken: To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
  22. awry: & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
  23. aye: An expression of assent.
  24. azalea: A flowering shrub.
  25. azure: The color of the sky.
  26. Baconian: Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
  27. bacterium: A microbe.
  28. badger: To pester.
  29. baffle: To foil or frustrate.
  30. bailiff: An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
  31. baize: A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
  32. bale: A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
  33. baleful: Malignant.
  34. ballad: Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
  35. balsam: A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
  36. banal: Commonplace.
  37. barcarole: A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
  38. baritone: Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
  39. barograph: An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
  40. barometer: An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
  41. barring prep: Apart from.
  42. bask: To make warm by genial heat.
  43. bass: Low in tone or compass.
  44. baste: To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
  45. baton: An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
  46. battalion: A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
  47. batten: A narrow strip of wood.
  48. batter: A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
  49. bauble: A trinket.
  50. bawl: To proclaim by outcry.