SAT Vocab Prep 15
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- habitude
- noun: Customary relation or association.
- discolor
- verb: To stain.
- cardinal
- adjective: Of prime or special importance.
- misdemeanor
- noun: Evil conduct, small crime.
- muleteer
- noun: A mule-driver.
- buoyancy
- noun: Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
- intellectual
- adjective: Characterized by intelligence.
- monologue
- noun: A story or drama told or performed by one person.
- scabbard
- noun: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
- guinea
- noun: An English monetary unit.
- assassinate
- verb: To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
- vaudeville
- noun: A variety show.
- frightful
- adjective: Apt to induce terror or alarm.
- entail
- verb: To involve; necessitate.
- sonorous
- adjective: Resonant.
- amphitheater
- noun: An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
- wavelet
- noun: A ripple.
- malefactor
- noun: One who injures another.
- bawl
- verb: To proclaim by outcry.
- tortuous
- adjective: Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
- decoy
- noun: Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
- obsolescent
- adjective: Passing out of use, as a word.
- noisy
- adjective: Clamorous.
- accuracy
- noun: Exactness.
- prudery
- noun: An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
- retention
- noun: The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
- unnatural
- adjective: Artificial.
- irritable
- adjective: Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
- halcyon
- adjective: Calm.
- molt
- verb: To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
- placate
- verb: To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- qualm
- noun: A fit of nausea.
- hospitable
- adjective: Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
- lawgiver
- noun: A legislator.
- castigate
- verb: To punish.
- eulogy
- noun: A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.
- denude
- verb: To strip the covering from.
- quay
- noun: A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
- aristocrat
- noun: A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
- congest
- verb: To collect into a mass.
- curtail
- verb: To cut off or cut short.
- outrigger
- noun: A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
- referee
- noun: An umpire.
- sagacious
- adjective: Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
- arrogant
- adjective: Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
- benignant
- adjective: Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
- option
- noun: The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
- occurrence
- noun: A happening.
- ablution
- noun: A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
- dismount
- verb: To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
- explicate
- verb: To clear from involvement.
- rearrange
- verb: To arrange again or in a different order.
- bestial
- adjective: Animal.
- denouement
- noun: That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
- improper
- adjective: Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming.
- accede
- verb: To agree.
- tolerance
- noun: Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
- preference
- noun: An object of favor or choice.
- clairvoyance
- noun: Intuitive sagacity or perception.
- derive
- verb: To deduce, as from a premise.
- protector
- noun: A defender.
- accouter
- verb: To dress.
- interpose
- verb: To come between other things or persons.
- realism
- noun: The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
- understate
- verb: To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
- annalist
- noun: Historian.
- chromatic
- adjective: Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
- suffrage
- noun: The right or privilege of voting.
- peerless
- adjective: Of unequaled excellence or worth.
- arboretum
- noun: A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
- travail
- noun: Hard or agonizing labor.
- superfluity
- noun: That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
- actionable
- adjective: Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
- adherence
- noun: Attachment.
- digraph
- noun: A union of two characters representing a single sound.
- drastic
- adjective: Acting vigorously.
- savage
- noun: A wild and uncivilized human being.
- treachery
- noun: Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
- superintendence
- noun: Direction and management.
- pseudonym
- noun: A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
- opulent
- adjective: Wealthy.
- predicate
- verb: To state as belonging to something.
- conformable
- adjective: Harmonious.
- catholicity
- noun: Universal prevalence or acceptance.
- idealize
- verb: To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard.
- specimen
- noun: One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
- partisan
- adjective: Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
- clarion
- noun: A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
- spasmodic
- adjective: Convulsive.
- extravagance
- noun: Undue expenditure of money.
- bedaub
- verb: To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
- incidence
- noun: Casual occurrence.
- kiln
- noun: An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
- tranquility
- noun: Calmness.
- tactician
- noun: One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
- artifice
- noun: Trickery.
- floral
- adjective: Pertaining to flowers.
- semiannual
- adjective: Recurring at intervals of six months.
- chronometer
- noun: A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
- sophistical
- adjective: Fallacious.
- cosmos
- noun: The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
- corporate
- adjective: Belonging to a corporation.
- out-and-out
- aderb: Genuinely.
- expatriate
- verb: To drive from one's own country.
- overproduction
- noun: Excessive production.
- constituency
- noun: The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
- siren
- noun: A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
- disjunctive
- adjective: Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
- misdeed
- noun: A wrong or improper act.
- trio
- noun: Three things grouped or associated together.
- entrench
- verb: To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall.
- amatory
- adjective: Designed to excite love.
- pentagon
- noun: A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
- olive-branch
- noun: A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
- morality
- noun: Virtue.
- badger
- verb: To pester.
- peddler
- noun: One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
- contrive
- verb: To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
- inverse
- adjective: Contrary in tendency or direction.
- elocution
- noun: The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.
- gamester
- noun: A gambler.
- malevolence
- noun: Ill will.
- permeate
- verb: To pervade.
- hosiery
- noun: A stocking.
- exodus
- noun: A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
- convivial
- adjective: Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
- contribution
- noun: The act of giving for a common purpose.
- encore
- noun: The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance.
- anticlimax
- noun: A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
- bolster
- verb: To support, as something wrong.
- Achillean
- adjective: Invulnerable.
- superheat
- verb: To heat to excess.
- liberate
- verb: To set free or release from bondage.
- vinery
- noun: A greenhouse for grapes.
- ante
- verb: In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
- outbreak
- noun: A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.
- auburn
- adjective: Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.
- bilateral
- adjective: Two-sided.
- relegate
- verb: To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
- radiance
- noun: Brilliant or sparkling luster.
- aloof
- aderb: Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
- extricate
- verb: Disentangle.
- expedient
- adjective: Contributing to personal advantage.
- insolence
- noun: Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
- monitory
- noun: Admonition or warning.
- quackery
- noun: Charlatanry
- terminate
- verb: To put an end or stop to.
- sinister
- adjective: Evil.
- free trade
- noun: Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
- adulterant
- noun: An adulterating substance.
- discomfort
- noun: The state of being positively uncomfortable.
- doubly
- aderb: In twofold degree or extent.
- subservience
- noun: The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
- recoil
- verb: To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
- inchmeal
- aderb: Piecemeal.
- supine
- adjective: Lying on the back.
- maintenance
- noun: That which supports or sustains.
- dehydrate
- verb: To deprive of water.
- lucrative
- adjective: Highly profitable.
- twinge
- noun: A darting momentary local pain.
- disavow
- verb: To disclaim responsibility for.
- infinity
- noun: Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration.
- finality
- noun: The state or quality of being final or complete.
- counterpart
- noun: Something taken with another for the completion of either.
- Quixotic
- adjective: Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
- speculator
- noun: One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
- mountainous
- adjective: Full of or abounding in mountains.
- contaminate
- verb: To pollute.
- nutriment
- noun: That which nourishes.
- component
- noun: A constituent element or part.
- alderman
- noun: A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
- commodity
- noun: Something that is bought and sold.
- citadel
- noun: Any strong fortress.
- hexangular
- adjective: Having six angles.
- culinary
- adjective: Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
- infrequent
- adjective: Uncommon.
- attest
- verb: To certify as accurate, genuine, or true.
- odium
- noun: A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
- preponderate
- verb: To exceed in influence or power.
- immoral
- adjective: Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
- convolve
- verb: To move with a circling or winding motion.
- transient
- noun: One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
- ligneous
- adjective: Having the texture of appearance of wood.
- exhaustion
- noun: Deprivation of strength or energy.
- marine
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
- intelligible
- adjective: Comprehensible.
- alto
- noun: The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
- urchin
- noun: A roguish, mischievous boy.
- crevasse
- noun: A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
- disclaim
- verb: To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.
- ready
- adjective: In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
- mettle
- noun: Courage.
- stifle
- verb: To smother.
- protege
- noun: One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
- heptarchy
- noun: A group of seven governments.
- prim
- adjective: Stiffly proper.
- oversee
- verb: To superintend.
- monolith
- noun: Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
- relapse
- verb: To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
- ebullient
- adjective: Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.
- inviolable
- adjective: Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
- deplorable
- adjective: Contemptible.
- expulsion
- noun: Forcible ejection.
- pauper
- noun: One without means of support.
- exemplify
- verb: To show by example.
- endear
- verb: To cause to be loved.
- distend
- verb: To stretch out or expand in every direction.
- irrefragable
- adjective: That can not be refuted or disproved.
- monstrosity
- noun: Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
- displace
- verb: To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
- ordnance
- noun: A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
- incompetence
- noun: General lack of capacity or fitness.
- Occident
- noun: The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
- sparse
- adjective: Thinly diffused.
- participant
- noun: One having a share or part.
- conversion
- noun: Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
- pleasant
- adjective: Agreeable.
- recant
- verb: To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
- massacre
- noun: The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
- nuisance
- noun: That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
- editorial
- noun: An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument.
- avocation
- noun: Diversion.
- desultory
- adjective: Not connected with what precedes.
- perspective
- noun: The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
- laxative
- adjective: Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
- buoyant
- adjective: Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
- nebula
- noun: A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
- expository
- adjective: Pertaining to a formal presentation.
- enjoin
- verb: To command.
- privity
- noun: Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
- quarrelsome
- adjective: Irascible.
- nunnery
- noun: A convent for nuns.
- expect
- verb: To look forward to as certain or probable.
- ire
- noun: Wrath.
- compunction
- noun: Remorseful feeling.
- deprave
- verb: To render bad, especially morally bad.
- prohibition
- noun: A decree or an order forbidding something.
- forthright
- aderb: With directness.
- gastronomy
- noun: The art of preparing and serving appetizing food.
- glazier
- noun: One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
- shrewd
- adjective: Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
- extrajudicial
- adjective: Happening out of court.
- expostulate
- verb: To discuss.
- canto
- noun: One of the divisions of an extended poem.
- refringency
- noun: Power to refract.
- inventive
- adjective: Quick at contrivance.
- siege
- noun: A beleaguerment.
- ecstatic
- adjective: Enraptured.
- impudence
- noun: Insolent disrespect.
- conquer
- verb: To overcome by force.