Wordlist 3

Question 1

amenities (n)

Answer 1

convenient features; courtesies

Question 2

amicable (adj)

Answer 2

politely friendly; not quarrelsome

Question 3

amiss (adj)

Seeing her frown; he wondered if anything were amiss.

Answer 3

wrong; faulty

Question 4

amity (n)

Student exchange programs such as the Experiment in Internation living were established to promote international amity.

Answer 4

friendship

Question 5

amnesia (n)

Answer 5

loss of memory

Question 6

amnesty (n)

Answer 6

an official statement that allows people who have been put in prison for crimes against the state to go free.

Question 7

amorous (adj)

Mary rejected Tony’s amorous advances.

Answer 7

moved by sexual love; loving

Question 8

amorphous (adj)

an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all.

Answer 8

formless; shapeless

Question 9

amphibian (adj/n)

Frogs are classified as amphibian.

Answer 9

able to live both on land and in water

Question 10

amphitheater (n)

Answer 10

oval building with tiers of seats

Question 11

amputate (v)

(n): amputation, amputee (person who is amputated)

Her right arm became infected and had to be amputated.

Answer 11

cut off part of body; prune

Question 12

amulet (n)

Around her neck she wore the amulet that the witch doctor had given her.

Answer 12

charm; talisman

Question 13

anachronistic (adj)

(n): anachronism.

The daily publication of print media seems anachronistic today.

Answer 13

having an error involving time in a story

Question 14

analgesic (adj)

analgesic drugs/effects

(n): analgesic = painkiller, (n): analgesia: the loss of ability to feel pain while still conscious

Answer 14

that reduces pain

Question 15

analogous (adj)

Answer 15

similar in some way to another thing or situation and therefore able to be compared with it

Question 16

anarchist (n)

Answer 16

person who seeks to overturn the established government

Question 17

anarchy (n)

Answer 17

absence of governing body; state of disorder.

Question 18

anathema (n)

Racial prejudice is an anthema to me.

Answer 18

a thing or an idea that you hate because it is the opposite of what you believe

Question 19

ancillary (adj)

ancillary workers in the health service such as cooks and cleaners

Answer 19

serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary

Question 20

anecdote (n)

amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor

(adj): anecdoctal

Answer 20

short account of an amusing or interesting event

Question 21

anemia (n)

The doctor ascribes her tiredness to anemia.

(adj): anemic

Answer 21

condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles

Question 22

anesthetic (n)

(n): anesthesia

Answer 22

substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness

Question 24

anguish (n)

Visiting the site of the explotion, the governor wept to see the anguish of the victims and their families

Answer 24

acute pain; extreme suffering

Question 25

angular (adj)

Answer 25

sharp-cornered; stiff in manner

Question 26

animated (adj)

Answer 26

lively; spirited

Question 27

animosity (n)

He incurred the animosity of the ruling class because he advocated limitations of their power.

Answer 27

a strong feeling of opposition, anger or hate