SAT Vocab Prep 11
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- spinous
- adjective: Having spines.
- usage
- noun: Treatment.
- weak-kneed
- adjective: Without resolute purpose or energy.
- patriarch
- noun: The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
- overrun
- verb: To infest or ravage.
- wield
- verb: To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
- nihilist
- noun: An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
- inactive
- adjective: Inert.
- regale
- verb: To give unusual pleasure.
- prelate
- noun: One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
- bravado
- noun: An aggressive display of boldness.
- caucus
- noun: A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
- anecdote
- noun: A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
- oaken
- adjective: Made of or from oak.
- prefatory
- adjective: Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
- demise
- noun: Death.
- hideous
- adjective: Appalling.
- misogyny
- noun: Hatred of women.
- transcend
- verb: To surpass.
- speculate
- verb: To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
- perspicacious
- adjective: Astute.
- neuter
- adjective: Neither masculine nor feminine.
- vegetate
- verb: To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
- equanimity
- noun: Evenness of mind or temper.
- beatify
- verb: To make supremely happy.
- endemic
- adjective: Peculiar to some specified country or people.
- cartilage
- noun: An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
- abrupt
- adjective: Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
- ladle
- noun: A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
- indulgence
- noun: The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
- neology
- noun: The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
- insurgence
- noun: Uprising.
- somnolence
- noun: Oppressive drowsiness.
- exorbitant
- adjective: Going beyond usual and proper limits.
- altruist
- noun: One who advocates or practices altruism.
- antiphony
- noun: An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
- sensuous
- adjective: Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
- critique
- noun: A criticism or critical review.
- vulnerable
- adjective: Capable of receiving injuries.
- succulent
- adjective: Juicy.
- frailty
- noun: Liability to be broken or destroyed.
- papacy
- noun: The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- inject
- verb: To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
- dilatory
- adjective: Tending to cause delay.
- capillary
- noun: A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
- dominance
- noun: Ascendancy.
- juridical
- adjective: Assumed by law to exist.
- irreligious
- adjective: Indifferent or opposed to religion.
- disparity
- noun: Inequality.
- infernal
- adjective: Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants.
- susceptible
- adjective: Easily under a specified power or influence.
- coalition
- noun: Combination in a body or mass.
- bacterium
- noun: A microbe.
- benignity
- noun: Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
- personnel
- noun: The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
- retort
- noun: A retaliatory speech.
- equestrian
- adjective: Pertaining to horses or horsemanship.
- medley
- noun: A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
- edify
- verb: To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion.
- obsequious
- adjective: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
- implicate
- verb: To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
- recidivist
- noun: A confirmed criminal.
- supplicant
- noun: One who asks humbly and earnestly.
- pomposity
- noun: The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
- frivolity
- noun: A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
- illuminant
- noun: That which may be used to produce light.
- trisect
- verb: To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
- well-to-do
- adjective: In prosperous circumstances.
- gamut
- noun: The whole range or sequence.
- preoccupy
- verb: To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
- candor
- noun: The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
- overshadow
- verb: To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
- divination
- noun: The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
- low-spirited
- adjective: Despondent.
- operative
- adjective: Active.
- prima
- adjective: First.
- inchoate
- adjective: Incipient.
- optic
- noun: Pertaining to the eye or vision.
- modernity
- noun: The state or character of being modern.
- indispensable
- adjective: Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
- literature
- noun: The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
- control
- verb: To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
- quietus
- noun: A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
- rampant
- adjective: Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
- sapiential
- adjective: Possessing wisdom.
- receivable
- adjective: Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
- balsam
- noun: A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
- preferable
- adjective: More desirable than others.
- banal
- adjective: Commonplace.
- abscond
- verb: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
- unguent
- noun: Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
- illiterate
- adjective: Having little or no book-learning.
- divergent
- adjective: Tending in different directions.
- relevant
- adjective: Bearing upon the matter in hand.
- factious
- adjective: Turbulent.
- refringent
- adjective: Having the power to refract.
- olfactory
- adjective: of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
- unbelief
- noun: Doubt.
- wrest
- verb: To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
- secant
- adjective: Cutting, especially into two parts.
- foreordain
- verb: To predetermine.
- pinnacle
- noun: A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
- adoration
- noun: Profound devotion.
- stagy
- adjective: Having a theatrical manner.
- diurnal
- adjective: Daily.
- effuse
- verb: To pour forth.
- secession
- noun: Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
- unutterable
- adjective: Inexpressible.
- unaffected
- adjective: Sincere.
- paternal
- adjective: Fatherly.
- hospitality
- noun: The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
- ministration
- noun: Any religious ceremonial.
- seismograph
- noun: An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
- fragile
- adjective: Easily broken.
- eventual
- adjective: Ultimate.
- amicable
- adjective: Done in a friendly spirit.
- loneliness
- noun: Solitude.
- brittle
- adjective: Fragile.
- corporeal
- adjective: Of a material nature; physical.
- apprehend
- verb: To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
- abrasion
- noun: That which is rubbed off.
- pharmacy
- noun: The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
- enrapture
- verb: To delight extravagantly or intensely.
- moderation
- noun: Temperance.
- torrid
- adjective: Excessively hot.
- deport
- verb: To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
- upcast
- noun: A throwing upward.
- immiscible
- adjective: Separating, as oil and water.
- countercharge
- verb: To accuse in return.
- raillery
- noun: Good-humored satire.
- adjutant
- adjective: Auxiliary.
- antemundane
- adjective: Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
- requisite
- adjective: Necessary.
- aristocracy
- noun: A hereditary nobility
- inlet
- noun: A small body of water leading into a larger.
- continuation
- noun: Prolongation.
- mediate
- verb: To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
- foretell
- verb: To predict.
- possess
- verb: To own.
- conjugation
- noun: The state or condition of being joined together.
- foliage
- noun: Any growth of leaves.
- dissentient
- noun: One who disagrees.
- topography
- noun: The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
- exempt
- adjective: Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
- monarchy
- noun: Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
- compress
- verb: To press together or into smaller space.
- delineate
- verb: To represent by sketch or diagram.
- distill
- verb: To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
- fallow
- noun: Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
- inconsiderable
- adjective: Small in quantity or importance.
- mien
- noun: The external appearance or manner of a person.
- unsettle
- verb: To put into confusion.
- decent
- adjective: Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
- magnetize
- verb: To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
- estrange
- verb: To alienate.
- seethe
- verb: To be violently excited or agitated.
- extraordinary
- adjective: Unusual.
- fiscal
- adjective: Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
- wile
- noun: An act or a means of cunning deception.
- stimulant
- noun: Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
- officiate
- verb: To act as an officer or leader.
- illusive
- adjective: Deceptive.
- extinct
- adjective: Being no longer in existence.
- origin
- noun: The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
- buttress
- noun: Any support or prop.
- rescind
- verb: To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
- mulatto
- noun: The offspring of a white person and a black person.
- enfranchise
- verb: To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
- professor
- noun: A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
- alias
- noun: An assumed name.
- loot
- verb: To plunder.
- adamant
- noun: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
- likely
- adjective: Plausible.
- emphasis
- noun: Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word.
- cartridge
- noun: A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
- supplant
- verb: To take the place of.
- juicy
- adjective: Succulent.
- secondly
- aderb: In the second place in order or succession.
- arrogate
- verb: To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
- thermomelectric
- adjective: Denoting electricity produced by heat.
- valorous
- adjective: Courageous.
- magnanimous
- adjective: Generous in treating or judging others.
- invidious
- adjective: Showing or feeling envy.
- affect
- verb: To act upon
- irresponsible
- adjective: Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
- levity
- noun: Frivolity.
- excellency
- noun: A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
- virtuoso
- noun: A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
- fernery
- noun: A place in which ferns are grown.
- sedentary
- adjective: Involving or requiring much sitting.
- emerge
- verb: To come into view or into existence.
- sleight
- noun: A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
- electrolysis
- noun: The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
- symphony
- noun: A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
- minority
- noun: The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
- oration
- noun: An elaborate or formal public speech.
- abstruse
- adjective: Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
- excel
- verb: To be superior or distinguished.
- intuition
- noun: Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
- seer
- noun: A prophet.
- alienate
- verb: To cause to turn away.
- dyne
- noun: The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
- discontinuance
- noun: Interruption or intermission.
- wiry
- adjective: Thin, but tough and sinewy.
- egotism
- noun: Self-conceit.
- collective
- adjective: Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
- telescope
- verb: To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
- delusion
- noun: Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
- antemeridian
- adjective: Before noon.
- lea
- noun: A field.
- apposite
- adjective: Appropriate.
- derrick
- noun: An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
- urbanity
- noun: Refined or elegant courtesy.
- crass
- adjective: Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
- discredit
- verb: To injure the reputation of.
- cajolery
- noun: Delusive speech.
- intoxicate
- verb: To make drunk.
- intermit
- verb: To cause to cease temporarily.
- duplicity
- noun: Double-dealing.
- thrall
- noun: One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
- orator
- noun: One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
- prohibitionist
- noun: One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
- monomania
- noun: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
- enamor
- verb: To inspire with ardent love.
- imperfectible
- adjective: That can not be perfected.
- invulnerable
- adjective: That can not be wounded or hurt.
- regnant
- adjective: Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
- observatory
- noun: A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
- ointment
- noun: A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
- maltreat
- verb: To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
- adherent
- adjective: Clinging or sticking fast.
- recessive
- adjective: Having a tendency to go back.
- venison
- noun: The flesh of deer.
- ponder
- verb: To meditate or reflect upon.
- canine
- adjective: Characteristic of a dog.
- thearchy
- noun: Government by a supreme deity.
- dilate
- verb: To enlarge in all directions.
- quiet
- adjective: Making no noise.
- wearisome
- adjective: Fatiguing.
- mawkish
- adjective: Sickening or insipid.
- redolent
- adjective: Smelling sweet and agreeable.
- chameleon
- adjective: Changeable in appearance.
- foresail
- noun: A square sail.
- baton
- noun: An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
- resuscitate
- verb: To restore from apparent death.
- genitive
- adjective: Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
- noisome
- adjective: Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
- autocracy
- noun: Absolute government.
- conservative
- adjective: Adhering to the existing order of things.
- dentifrice
- noun: Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.