SAT words from 'authenticity' to 'bawl'
Words alphabetically from 'authenticity' to 'bawl' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- authenticity
- The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
- autobiography
- The story of one's life written by himself.
- autocracy
- Absolute government.
- autocrat
- Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
- automaton
- Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
- autonomous
- Self-governing.
- autonomy
- Self-government.
- autopsy
- The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
- autumnal
- Of or pertaining to autumn.
- auxiliary
- One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
- avalanche
- The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
- avarice
- Passion for getting and keeping riches.
- aver
- To assert as a fact.
- averse
- Reluctant.
- aversion
- A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
- avert
- To turn away or aside.
- aviary
- A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
- avidity
- Greediness.
- avocation
- Diversion.
- avow
- To declare openly.
- awaken
- To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
- awry
- & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
- aye
- An expression of assent.
- azalea
- A flowering shrub.
- azure
- The color of the sky.
- Baconian
- Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
- bacterium
- A microbe.
- badger
- To pester.
- baffle
- To foil or frustrate.
- bailiff
- An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
- baize
- A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
- bale
- A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
- baleful
- Malignant.
- ballad
- Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
- balsam
- A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
- banal
- Commonplace.
- barcarole
- A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
- barograph
- An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
- barometer
- An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
- barring prep
- Apart from.
- baritone
- Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
- bask
- To make warm by genial heat.
- bass
- Low in tone or compass.
- baste
- To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
- baton
- An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
- battalion
- A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
- batten
- A narrow strip of wood.
- batter
- A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
- bauble
- A trinket.
- bawl
- To proclaim by outcry.