SSAT Prep words 21-40

This is to help get ready for the SSAT test middle level

alias

A name used in place of a person's real name, often for privacy or disguise purposes.

allege

To claim or assert something without providing proof.

allusion

1 : an implied or indirect reference especially in literature a poem that makes allusions to classical literature also : the use of such references

altruism

disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others:

amalgamation

the action, process, or result of combining or uniting:

amass

gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of material or things) over a period of time:

ameliorate

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better:

amnesty

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences:

amorphous

without a clearly defined shape or form:

anatomist

1. an expert in the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts:

androgynous

partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex:

animosity

strong hostility:

aplomb

self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation:

apostate

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle:

appease

pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands:

assuage or satisfy (a demand or a feeling):

approbation

approval or praise:

aptitude

a natural ability to do something:

arcane

understood by few; mysterious or secret:

archaic

very old or old-fashioned:

(of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour:

of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th–6th centuries bc in Greece:

archetype

a very typical example of a certain person or thing:

an original which has been imitated; a prototype:

1. psychoanalysis

   (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

2. a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: