16. affected<\/strong> (adjective) false, artificial. 18. aggrandize<\/strong> (verb) To make bigger or greater; to inflate. 19. agitation<\/strong> (noun) A disturbance; a disturbig feeling of upheavel and 20. alias<\/strong> (noun) An assumed name. 21. allegiance<\/strong> (noun) Loyalty or devotion shown to one’s government or 22. allocate<\/strong> (verb) to apportion for a specific purpose, to distribute. 23. amalgamate<\/strong> (verb) to blend thoroughly. 24. ameliorate<\/strong> (verb) to make something better or more tolerable. 25. amortize<\/strong> (verb) to pay off or reduce a debt gradually throught 26. amplify<\/strong> (verb) to enlarge, expand or increase. 27. anachronistic<\/strong> (adjective) out of the proper time. 28. anarchy<\/strong> (noun) abscence of law or order. 29. animosity<\/strong> (noun) hostility, resentment. 30. anomaly<\/strong> (noun) something different or irregular. The 15 GRE Words of the Day 16. affected (adjective) false, artificial. 80’s radio djs used to speak in an affected british accent. affect (verb), affectation (noun) 17. affinity (noun) A feeling of shared attraction, kinship, a similarity. When Christi and I feel in love, we marvled over our affinity for John Cage, Riot Grrl … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,282],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-gre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n80’s radio djs used to speak in an affected british accent.<\/i> affect (verb), affectation (noun)
\n17. affinity<\/strong> (noun) A feeling of shared attraction, kinship, a
\nsimilarity.
\nWhen Christi and I feel in love, we marvled over our affinity for John Cage,
\nRiot Grrl and our RA.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nWhen he was mayor of New York, Ed Kotch was renowned for aggrandizing his
\naccomplishments and stroling through city events shouting “How’m I doing?”<\/i> aggrandizement (noun)<\/p>\n
\nexcitement.
\nThe campus took away the microphones from the radical groups because they
\nfeared student agitation.<\/i> agitated (adjective), agitate (verb)<\/p>\n
\nDon’t reveal my identity to the spies! Call me by my alias, “sloshie.”<\/i><\/p>\n
\nto a s person, group or cause.
\nI pledge allegiance to my christi and to the sidewalk on which she
\nstands…<\/i><\/p>\n
\nIf you want to buy a fabcy new RAID array, you’re going to have to
\nallocate some funds out of your general budget.<\/i> allocation (noun)<\/p>\n
\nThe reason the white south wanted to maintain segregation, especially in
\nschools, was because they feared amalgamation. Intermarriage would
\ndestroy their very wonderful paleness for future generations.<\/i> amalgamation (noun)<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps we can ameliorate the condition of Vanessa’s Tofu Suprise through
\nthe juditious addition of soy sauce.<\/i> amelioration (noun)<\/p>\n
\nperiodic payments.
\nIn the interest rate is low, it might be a good idea to amortize our
\nmorgage instead of paying it off as fast as we can.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nWhen you asked me to amplify the music, i wrote a second movement, not
\nknowing you just wanted me to make it louder. oops.<\/i> amplification (noun)<\/p>\n
\nThe knight at the ren-faire was wearing keds, which is totally an
\nanachronism, cuz it’s not like keds were invented yet when there were
\nknights. of course, somebody running around now dressed in armor is kind
\nof anachronistic anyway. Maybe he belongs to the society for creative
\nanachronisms.<\/i> anachronism (noun)<\/p>\n
\nanarchists are kind of silly, because they don’t want chaos or actual
\nanarchy, they want people to form allegiances voluntarily.<\/i> anarchic (adjective)<\/p>\n
\nRoz could no longer contain her animosity towards Xena and so after a
\nminute of sniffing noses, she returned to growling obnoxiously.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nwe noticed an anomoly on the scan, so we’re going to have to do a biopsy
\nto make sure it’s not cancer.<\/i> anomalous (adjective)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"