SAT Vocabulary Weeks 1-16
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- Exemplary
- adj- serving as a model, deserving imitation or commendable, or serving as an example
- Gentility
- n- refinement, politeness, or respectability or members of the upper class
- Punctilious
- adj- careful, meticulous, or very exact
- Veracity
- n- habitual honesty or truthfullness, or accuracy, or precision
- Idiosyncrasy
- n- a personal peculiarity or eccentricity
- Drivel
- n- silly or foolish talk
- Satiate
- [v.] to satisfy with more than enough so as to weary or disgust.
- Lilt
- [v.] to sing, play, or speak with a light and graceful swing or rhythm.
- Glib
- adj- too ready, fluent, or smooth to be sincere or carefully considered
- Supplant
- [v.] to take place of or to remove in order to replace with something else.
- Pompous
- adj- showy, pretentious or overdignified, or acting self-important
- Epoch
- [n.] a period of time or the starting point of an important period of time.
- Lethargy
- n- laziness, lack of energy sluggishness or indifference
- Extempore
- [adj.] offhand, impromptu, without preparation, or on the spur of the moment.
- Consummate
- adj- perfect, supreme, extreme, or in the highest degree
- Regress
- [v.] to grow worse, decline or move backward.
- Finite
- adj- having measurable or definable limits or bounds
- Euphony
- [n.] sweetness of sounds or combinations of sounds, especially in speech.
- Prefatory
- [adj.] introductory or preliminary.
- Integral
- adj- essential to completeness, organically linked or formed as a unit; or complete or lacking nothing essential
- Curate
- [n.] a clergyman who assists a vicar or rector.
- Sundry
- adj- various, several, misc.
- Immolation
- [n.] a sacrificing or being sacrificed, or something sacrificed.
- Teem
- v- to abound, swarm or be overflowing
- Genesis
- n- the origin, creation, or beginning of something
- Abnegation
- [n.] a renunciation or surrender of a right, belief, idea or pleasure.
- Belated
- [adj.] delayed or too late.
- Recant
- [v.] to withdraw or renounce publicly a statement or belief one has formerly held.
- Obviate
- [v.] to make unnecessary or to prevent by effective measures.
- Depict
- [v.] to represent, portray, or describe.
- Cessation
- [n.] a stopping, pausing or discontinuance.
- Ramification
- [n.] an outgrowth, subdivision, consquence or branching out.
- Dissertation
- [n.] a treatise or a formal and lengthy discussion in writing.
- Cauterize
- [v.] to burn with a hot iron or with a chemical.
- Olfactory
- [adj.] relating to the sense of smell.
- Despot
- [n.] a tyrant or oppressor. or a ruler with absolute power.
- Apocalypse
- [n.] a writing that claims to reveal the future; or any revelation.
- Sedition
- [n.] speech or action that causes discontent or rebellion against a government.
- Succor
- [v.] to aide, help, or relieve.
- Barrister
- [n.] in England, a lawyer who presents and pleads cases in court.
- Convivial
- [Adj.] festive, Jovial or sociable.
- Tithe
- [n.] one tenth of one's income to support a church or clergy; or any small tax.
- Sanguine
- [Adj.] optimistic, confident, or cheerful.
- Sepulcher
- [n.] a grave or tomb.
- Rectitude
- [n.] strict honesty or moral uprightness.
- Definitive
- [adj.] decisive, final or conclusive; or most nearly complete, accurate, and reliable.
- Construe
- [v.] to interpret, explain or try to find the meaning of.
- Epitome
- [n.] A condensed representation of something, or anything regarded as a symbol or image of a quality or type.
- Ascertain
- [v.] to discover with certainty through examination or experimentation.
- Hypochondriac
- [n.] a person who worries excessively about his health and imagines that he has various diseases.
- Subsist
- [v.] to continue to exist, or to remain alive, or to have the necessities of life.
- Astringent
- [adj.] having the ability to shrink or contract body tissue and blood vessels.
- Reactionary
- [n.] extreme conservative, or one who fears a movement back to a former or less advanced stage, especially in politics, economics, etc.
- Remittance
- [n.] the sending of money to another person or place, or the sum of money so sent.
- Alacrity
- [n.] quick, willingness, briskness or eagerness.
- Sagacity
- [n.] shrewdness or keenness of judgement, or discernment.
- Philanthropy
- [n.] the effort or inclination to increase human well-being, as by charitable aid.
- Rancor
- [n.] deep resentment, ill will, hate or spite.
- Rankle
- [v.] to trouble the mind with lingering distress,; pain or resentment (i'm talkin' downtown!).
- Acrimony
- [n.] biting sharpness or bitterness of speech or manner.
- Antipathy
- [n.] a strong dislike or an aversion.
- Tirade
- [n.] a long, angry speech with violent language.
- Disparage
- [v.] to speak slightingly of or disrespectfully of, belittle.
- Flout
- [v.] to mock or scorn, or to disregard contemptuously.
- Sully
- [v.] to defile, soil, tarnish; or dirty.
- Revile
- [v.] to speak abusively or contemptuously of.
- Scathing
- [adj.] bitterly and fiercely severe.
- Predilection
- [n.] a preference or favorable predisposition.
- Corroborate
- [v.] to confirm, support or make more certain.
- Emulate
- [v.] to attempt to equal or excel.
- Extol
- [v.] to praise highly.
- Auspices
- [n.] patronage, sponsorship or protection.
- Autocracy/Dictatorship/Authoritarian/tyranny/unitary
- gov't in which powe to rule is in hands of one person who is supported by the army or secret police.
- Unitary
- gov't that gives all power to national gov't
- Confederacy
- loose union of independent states (all power in state gov'ts)
- Democracy
- gov't in which the people rule
- Federalism
- power is divided between national and state gov'ts
- Anarchy
- political disorder/chaos
- Direct Democracy
- people govern themselves; each individual votes on issues
- Representative Democracy
- people elect delegates to make gov't decisions
- Bill of Rights
- first 10 amendments to the Constitution
- checks and balances
- a system where each branch of gov't exercises some control over the other two
- Separation of powers
- the division of power among the three branches of gov't
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judicial review
(Established under the case of ___) - the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of state, federal and local gov'ts unconstitutional (Established under the case of Marbury vs. Madison)
- limited gov't
- power of gov't is not absolute and the people have the right to petition the gov't for a redress of grievances (get problems fixed)
- majority rule with minority rights
- people with the most support determine the laws as long as they don't take away the rights of a smaller group.
- commander-in-chief
- the president's role as head of the military
- bicameral congress
- a legislative body with two chambers/parts
- revenue bill
- a law proposed to raise money that can only begin in the House of Representatives
- electoral college
- the official group of people who vote for president
- pocket-veto
- when a predient kills a bill simply by refusing to act on it in the last 10 days that Congress is in session.
- interest group
- a group of people with common gouals who organize to influence gov't
- political party
- group of individuals with broad common interests who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct gov't, and determine public policy
- impeach
- to accuse a public official of misconduct in office
- lobbying
- direct contact made by an interest group in order to persuade gov't officials to support the policies their interest group favors
- veto
- rejection of a bill
- expressed powers
- powers directly stated in the Constitution
- implied powers
- powers that the gov't requires to carry out its expressed powers (not directly stated in Constitution)
- national convention
- meeting of party leaders where candidates for president and vice-president are nominated
- suffrage
- the right to vote