High Frequency Vocabulary for IELTS, TOEFL, SAT , GRE, GMAT ( Part-5)

High Frequency Vocabulary ( Part-5)

Allusion – an indirect reference , a hint

Aloof – uninvolved , standing off

Altruism – selflessness, generosity , devotion to the interest of others

Ambience – atmosphere, mood, feeling

Ambiguous – unclear in meaning , confusing

Ambivalent – undecided , neutral

Ameliorate – to make better or more tolerable

Amenable – obedient , agreeable

Amenity- pleasantness, attractive or comfortable feature

Amiable – friendly , agreeable

Amnesty – an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy

Amoral – lacking a sense of right and wrong, neither good nor bad, without moral feelings

Amorous – feeling loving , especially in a sexual sense

Amorphous – shapeless, without a regular or stable shape

Anachronism – something out of place in time or history, an incongruity

Analogy- comparison of one thing to another, similarity 

Word	Synonym	Antonym
Allusion	infer, insinuate, intimate	announce, declare, proclaim
Aloof	antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up,	boon, clubbable , clubby
Altruism	Benevolence,humanitarianism kindness	meanness
Ambience	aroma, atmosphere, aura
Ambiguous	abstruse, esoteric, recondite	intelligible, knowable, legible
Ambivalent	conflicted, equivocal	certain, decided, resolute
Ameliorate	amend, better, enhance	damage, harm
Amenable	inclined, , ready, willing	averse, loath , reluctant
Amenity	attention, civility, courtesy	hostility,sourness,vinegar
Amiable	affable, agreeable, genial	impolite, inconsiderate, rude
Amnesty	absolution, forgiveness, pardon	conviction, sentence assessment
Amoral	Abandoned, lecherous	Chaste, controlled ,good
Amorous	aphrodisiac ,erogenous, erotic	clean, decent, decorous
Amorphous	formless, shapeless	coherent, ordered, distinct
Anachronism	Misplacement, prolepsis solecism

Quick Quiz #5 (Match words in the first column with its definition in the second column.

Allusion Aloof Altruism Ambience Ambiguous Ambivalent Ameliorate Amenable Amenity Amiable Amnesty Amoral Amorous Amorphous Anachronism Analogy

a)      Atmosphere b)      Standoffish c)      Confusing d)     Generosity e)      Indirect reference f)       Undecided g)      Pleantness h)      Comparison i)        Obedient j)        Without moral feeling k)      Feeling loving l)        Make better m)    Shapeless n)      Politely friendly o)      Official pardon p)      Friendly q)      Incongruity