List of words can be used as a reference for competitive exams like GRE,SAT,GMAT etc. Parents make your children start learning today :
abate - to lessen, to subside
abdication - give up control, authority
aberration - straying away from what is normal
abet - to help someone in doing a wrong thing, to encourage someone to do wrong things
abeyance - suspended action
abhor - to hate,protest,detest
abide - be faithful
abjure - promise or swear to give up
abraded - rubbed off worn away by friction
abrogate - repeal or annul by authority
abscond - to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
abstruse - difficult to comprehend obscure
abut - border on
abysmal - bottomless extreme
acarpous - effete no longer fertile worn out
acclaimed - welcomed with shouts and approval
accolade - praise approval
accretion - the growing of separate things into one
accrue - accumulate
adamant - kind of stone inflexible
admonitory - containing warning
adorn - add beauty decorate
adulteration - making impure poorer in quality
affable - polite and friendly
affinity - close connection relationship
aggravate - make worse irritate
agile - active quick-moving
agog - eager/excited
ail - trouble be ill
alacrity - eager and cheerful readiness
alcove - recess/partially enclosed place
ale - fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
aleck - one who considers himself smarter than others
allegiance - duty support loyalty
alleviate - make (pain) easier to bear
alloy - to debase by mixing with something inferior
aloof -reserved indifferent
amalgamate - mix combine unite societies
ambidextrous - able to use the left hand or the right equally well
ambiguous - doubtful uncertain
ambivalent - having both of two contrary meanings
ambrosial - extremely pleasing to taste
ameliorate - improve make better
amortize - end (a debt) by setting aside money
anguish - severe suffering
animosity - strong dislike
antidote - medicine used against a poison or a disease
antithetical - direct opposing
apartheid - brutal racial discrimination
aplomb - self-confidence
apostate - one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis - deification glorification to godliness
appease - make quiet or calm
apprehensive - grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
apprise - give notice to inform
SAT Competitive Exam vocabulary list
