Discovering a Collegiate Art Vocabulary

The following vocabulary listing are words that you will discover on the High School SAT exam. These are also words that will enable you to communicate on a higher level of understanding. Just as we dress to impress, your words will define and reflect your intelligence. The more vocabulary that is stored within your brain word bank, the more tools you have in your mental tool box.

aesthetics = ones own personal definition of beauty that holds a value system or reasoning.

ambiguity = revealing the beauty of opposites within a subject matter or work of art.

symmetry = a term to reveal a mirror image of a subject or perfect balance.

alchemy = Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.

allegory = The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.

allude = To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.

alteration = Change or modification.

Achillean = Invulnerable.

achromatic = Colorless

acquiescence = Passive consent.

acquisition = Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.

acute = Having fine and penetrating discernment.

addendum = Something added, or to be added.

adjacent = That which is near or bordering upon.

adjunct = Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.