54-61 Flashcards
Amnesty
An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy
Amiable
Friendly, agreeable
Amoral
Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good not bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings
Amorous
Feeling lovely, especially in a sexually sense; in love; relating to love
Amorphous
Shapeless; without a regular or stabile shape; blob like
Anachronism
Something put of place in time or history; an incongruity
Analogy
A comparison of one thing to another
Anarchy
Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder
Anecdote
A short account of a humorous or revealing incident
Anguish
Agonizing physical or mental pain
Animosity
Resentment; hostility; ill will
Anomaly
An aberration; an irregularity; a deviation
Antecedent
Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it
Antipathy
From dislike; a dislike
Antithesis
The direct opposite