Barron 3.1

N. convenient features; courtesies. In addition to the customary amenities for the business traveler-fax machines, modems, a health club-the hotel offers the services of a butler versed in the social amenities.

ADJ. agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly. In Little Women, Beth is the amiable daughter whose loving disposition endears her to all who know her.

ADJ. politely friendly; not quarrelsome. Beth's sister Jo is the hot-tempered tomboy who has a hard time maintaining amicable relations with those around her. Jo's quarrel with her friend Laurie finally reaches an amicable settlement, but not because Jo turns amiable overnight.

ADJ. wrong; faulty. Seeing her frown, he wondered if anything were amiss. also ADV.

N. friendship. Student exchange programs such as the Experiment in International Living were established to promote international amity.

N. loss of memory. Because she was suffering from amnesia, the police could not get the young girl to identify herself.

N. pardon. When his first child was born, the king granted amnesty to all in prison.

ADJ. nonmoral. The amoral individual lacks a code of ethics; he cannot tell right from wrong. The immoral person can tell right from wrong; he chooses to do something he knows is wrong.

ADJ. moved by sexual love; loving. "Love them and leave them" was the motto of the amorous Don Juan.

ADJ. formless; lacking shape or definition. As soon as we have decided on our itinerary, we shall send you a copy; right now, our plans are still amorphous.

ADJ. able to live both on land and in water. Frogs are classified as amphibian. also N.

N. oval building with tiers of seats. The spectators in the amphitheater cheered the gladiators.

ADJ. abundant. Bond had ample opportunity to escape. Why did he let us catch him?

V. broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger. Charlie Brown tried to amplify his remarks, but he was drowned out by jeers from the audience. Lucy was smarter: she used a loudspeaker to amplify her voice.

V. cut off part of body; prune. When the doctors had to amputate the young man's leg to prevent the spread of cancer, he did not let the loss of a limb keep him from participating in sports.

N. charm; talisman. Around her neck she wore the amulet that the witch doctor had given her.

ADJ. having an error involving time in a story. The reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is anachronistic: clocks did not exist in Caesar's time. anachronism, N.

ADJ. causing insensitivity to pain. The analgesic qualities of this lotion will provide temporary relief.

ADJ. comparable. She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.

N. similarity; parallelism. A well-known analogy compares the body's immune system with an army whose defending troops are the lymphocytes or white blood cells.

N. person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority. Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely. anarchy, N.

N. absence of governing body; state of disorder. The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy.

N. solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse. The Ayatolla Khomeini heaped anathema upon "the Great Satan," that is, the United States. To the Ayatolla, America and the West were anathema; he loathed the democratic nations, cursing them in his dying words. anathematize,V.

N. family descent. David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of his ancestors was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany. ancestral,ADJ.

V. secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place. We set the post in concrete to anchor it in place. anchorage, N.