Common SAT Words: A

SAT words that start with the letter A.

Abase

(v.) to humiliate, degrade

(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)

Abate

(v.) to reduce, lessen

(The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)

Abdicate

(v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership

(When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

Abduct

(v.) to kidnap, take by force

(The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.)