PSAT Vocab 20-40 Flashcards
Aesthetic
Artistic, related to a sense of beauty
Adulation
Excessive admiration, worship, or flattery
Affectation
Fake behavior, a pretense to impress others
Alacrity
A cheerful readiness, eagerness
Allege
To assign wrongdoing yet to be proven; accuse
Altercation
An angry dispute, a quarrel
Altruism
Self giving, generosity
Ameliorate
To ease situation, to bring relief
Amenable
Going along with the edges of another, agreeable
Amenity
Nicety, attractive feature
Amnesty
Official pardon for those who have broken the law
Amorous
Strongly moved by love (Mostly sexual love)
Amorphous
Lacking a distant shape
Anecdote
A short, entertaining story often about a real incident or person
Antebellum
Before the war (U.S. Civil War)