Barron's High Frequency 333 GRE Words : 11-20

1. Alleviate (v) : relieve; This should ALLEVIATE the pain, if it does not, we shall have to use stronger drugs.
2. Amalgamate (v) : combine, unite in one body; The unions will attempt to AMALGAMATE their groups into one national body.
3. Ambiguous (adj) : unclear or doubtful meaning; His AMBIGUOUS instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take.
4. Ambivalence (n) : the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes; Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.
5. Ameliorate (v) : improve; Many social workers have attempted to AMELIORATE the conditions of people living in the slums.
6. Anachronism (n) : something or someone misplaced in time; Shakespeare’s reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an ANACHRONISM; no clocks existed in Caesar’s time.
7. Analogous (adj) : comparable; She called our attention to the things that had been done in an ANALOGOUS situation and recommended that we do the same.
8. Anarchy (n) : absence of governing body, state of disorder; The assassination of the leaders led to a period of ANARCHY.
9. Anomalous (adj) : abnormal, irregular; She was placed in the ANOMALOUS position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised.
10. Antipathy (n) : aversion, dislike; Tom’s extreme ANTIPATHY for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his temperamental wife.