SAT vocab words 21-40

Question 1

excessive admiration, worship, or flattery.

Answer 1

adulation

Question 2

artistic; related to a sense of beauty

Answer 2

aesthetic

Question 3

fake behavior; a pretense to impress others

Answer 3

affection

Question 4

a cheerful readiness; eagerness

Answer 4

alacrity

Question 5

to assign wrongdoing yet to be proven; accuse

Answer 5

allege

Question 6

an angry dispute; a quarrel

Answer 6

altercation

Question 7

selfless giving; generosity

Answer 7

altruism

Question 8

to ease a situation; to bring relief

Answer 8

ameliorate

Question 9

going along with the edges of another; agreeable

Answer 9

amenable

Question 10

nicety; attractive feature

Answer 10

amenity

Question 11

official pardon for those who have broken the law

Answer 11

amnesty

Question 12

strongly moved by love (often sexual love)

Answer 12

amorous

Question 13

lacking a distint shape

Answer 13

amorphous

Question 14

a short, entertaining story often about a real incident or person

Answer 14

anecdote

Question 15

before the war (esp. U.S. Civil War)

Answer 15

antebellum

Question 16

coming before in time

Answer 16

antecedent

Question 17

definitive dislike, repulsion, aversion

Answer 17

antipathy

Question 18

racial separation and injustice

Answer 18

apartheid

Question 19

one who deserts faith or his principals

Answer 19

apostate

Question 20

having power to review and reverse (a court power)

Answer 20

appellate