SAT Vocab Prep 19
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- rightful
- adjective: Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
- fidelity
- noun: Loyalty.
- patrimony
- noun: An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
- adhesion
- noun: The state of being attached or joined.
- nasal
- adjective: Pertaining to the nose.
- impassable
- adjective: That can not be passed through or over.
- impolitic
- adjective: Inexpedient.
- venal
- adjective: Mercenary, corrupt.
- collusion
- noun: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
- inseparable
- adjective: That can not be separated.
- repel
- verb: To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
- spheroid
- noun: A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
- unanimity
- noun: The state or quality of being of one mind.
- successor
- noun: One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
- complicity
- noun: Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
- triumvir
- noun: One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
- intolerant
- adjective: Bigoted.
- incentive
- noun: That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
- transmission
- noun: The act of sending through or across.
- insidious
- adjective: Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
- tremulous
- adjective: Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
- henchman
- noun: A servile assistant and subordinate.
- congregate
- verb: To bring together into a crowd.
- quarantine
- noun: The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
- opportunist
- noun: One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
- subside
- verb: To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
- cardiac
- adjective: Pertaining to the heart.
- abet
- verb: To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
- regicide
- noun: The killing of a king or sovereign.
- simplify
- verb: To make less complex or difficult.
- confederate
- noun: One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
- compression
- noun: Constraint, as by force or authority.
- sentinel
- noun: Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
- lave
- verb: To wash or bathe.
- solecism
- noun: Any violation of established rules or customs.
- mentality
- noun: Intellectuality.
- loiterer
- noun: One who consumes time idly.
- extensible
- adjective: Capable of being thrust out.
- protrusion
- noun: The act of protruding.
- infrequence
- noun: Rareness.
- unlimited
- adjective: Unconstrained.
- vegetation
- noun: Plant-life in the aggregate.
- unbearable
- adjective: Unendurable.
- absence
- noun: The fact of not being present or available.
- pitiable
- adjective: Contemptible.
- inveterate
- adjective: Habitual.
- triple
- adjective: Threefold.
- unicellular
- adjective: Consisting of a single cell.
- Stoicism
- noun: The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
- embargo
- noun: Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade.
- cession
- noun: Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
- imminent
- adjective: Dangerous and close at hand.
- maxim
- noun: A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
- persistence
- noun: A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
- impure
- adjective: Tainted.
- connote
- verb: To mean; signify.
- aspire
- verb: To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
- pseudapostle
- noun: A pretended or false apostle.
- foreknowledge
- noun: Prescience.
- colossus
- noun: Any strikingly great person or object.
- grantor
- noun: The maker of a deed.
- kilowatt
- noun: One thousand watts.
- aeronaut
- noun: One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
- severely
- aderb: Extremely.
- iridescence
- noun: A many-colored appearance.
- obliterate
- verb: To cause to disappear.
- armory
- noun: An arsenal.
- spherometer
- noun: An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
- non-resident
- adjective: Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
- jugglery
- noun: The art or practice of sleight of hand.
- absolution
- noun: Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
- technology
- noun: The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
- panorama
- noun: A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
- viola
- noun: A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
- illusion
- noun: An unreal image presented to the senses.
- extravagant
- adjective: Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure.
- pertinent
- adjective: Relevant.
- iota
- noun: A small or insignificant mark or part.
- eatable
- adjective: Edible.
- masonry
- noun: The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
- recover
- verb: To regain.
- dogma
- noun: A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
- impend
- verb: To be imminent.
- sediment
- noun: Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
- solder
- noun: A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
- hydromechanics
- noun: The mechanics of fluids.
- actuality
- noun: Any reality.
- termagant
- adjective: Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
- meager
- adjective: scanty.
- deviltry
- noun: Wanton and malicious mischief.
- purloin
- verb: To steal.
- cabalism
- noun: Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
- believe
- verb: To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
- Bowdlerize
- verb: To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
- nuance
- noun: A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
- pillage
- noun: Open robbery, as in war.
- kimono
- noun: A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
- intromit
- verb: To insert.
- auxiliary
- noun: One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
- engrave
- verb: To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
- working-man
- noun: One who earns his bread by manual labor.
- archipelago
- noun: Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
- biped
- noun: An animal having two feet.
- maternal
- adjective: Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
- impalpable
- adjective: Imperceptible to the touch.
- urban
- adjective: Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
- panic
- noun: A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
- excitation
- noun: Intensified emotion or action.
- stripling
- noun: A mere youth.
- placid
- adjective: Serene.
- inundation
- noun: Flood.
- tarnish
- verb: To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
- philogynist
- noun: One who is fond of women.
- derivation
- noun: That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
- archbishop
- noun: The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
- interdict
- noun: Authoritative act of prohibition.
- vaporizer
- noun: An atomizer.
- ruminate
- verb: To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
- decapod
- adjective: Ten-footed or ten-armed.
- congenial
- adjective: Having kindred character or tastes.
- gigantic
- adjective: Tremendous.
- licit
- adjective: Lawful.
- hemorrhoids
- noun: pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum.
- resemblance
- noun: Similarity in quality or form.
- tolerable
- adjective: Moderately good.
- valediction
- noun: A bidding farewell.
- instance
- noun: A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
- underwrite
- verb: To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
- latish
- adjective: Rather late.
- repressible
- adjective: Able to be kept under restraint or control.
- bodily
- adjective: Corporeal.
- bemoan
- verb: To lament
- proffer
- verb: To offer to another for acceptance.
- statics
- noun: The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
- ductile
- adjective: Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
- perturbation
- noun: Mental excitement or confusion.
- assimilate
- verb: To adapt.
- explosive
- adjective: Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak.
- salutatory
- noun: The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
- promontory
- noun: A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
- scarcity
- noun: Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
- amour
- noun: A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
- lune
- noun: The moon.
- typify
- verb: To serve as a characteristic example of.
- unspeakable
- adjective: Abominable.
- muffle
- verb: To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
- static
- adjective: Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
- network
- noun: Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
- protocol
- noun: A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
- relent
- verb: To yield.
- protective
- adjective: Sheltering.
- onrush
- noun: Onset.
- jocose
- adjective: Done or made in jest.
- radix
- noun: That from or on which something is developed.
- kerchief
- noun: A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
- effeminate
- adjective: Having womanish traits or qualities.
- consecutive
- adjective: Following in uninterrupted succession.
- theocrasy
- noun: The mixed worship of polytheism.
- drought
- noun: Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
- sisterhood
- noun: A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
- contraposition
- noun: A placing opposite.
- confide
- verb: To reveal in trust or confidence.
- diphthong
- noun: The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
- evanesce
- verb: To vanish gradually.
- palatial
- adjective: Magnificent.
- enlighten
- verb: To cause to see clearly.
- usurious
- adjective: Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
- peerage
- noun: The nobility.
- readily
- aderb: Without objection or reluctance.
- permanence
- noun: A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
- importune
- verb: To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
- forecast
- verb: To predict.
- preferment
- noun: Preference.
- conformity
- noun: Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
- nautical
- adjective: Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
- heresy
- noun: An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
- beneficial
- adjective: Helpful.
- maidenhood
- noun: Virginity.
- amity
- noun: Friendship.
- grandiose
- adjective: Having an imposing style or effect.
- account
- noun: A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
- sanction
- verb: To approve authoritatively.
- patronize
- verb: To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
- flamboyant
- adjective: Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
- conscientious
- adjective: Governed by moral standard.
- protract
- verb: To prolong.
- peripatetic
- adjective: Walking about.
- prehensile
- adjective: Adapted for grasping or holding.
- transparent
- adjective: Easy to see through or understand.
- repress
- verb: To keep under restraint or control.
- vocative
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
- coincidence
- noun: A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
- delectation
- noun: Delight.
- misplace
- verb: To put into a wrong place.
- antedate
- verb: To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
- fiasco
- noun: A complete or humiliating failure.
- nominate
- verb: To designate as a candidate for any office.
- hypnotic
- adjective: Tending to produce sleep.
- inveigh
- verb: To utter vehement censure or invective.
- genteel
- adjective: Well-bred or refined.
- recognizance
- noun: An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
- incinerate
- verb: To reduce to ashes.
- allay
- verb: To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
- optics
- noun: The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
- contumacious
- adjective: Rebellious.
- anterior
- adjective: Prior.
- dominant
- adjective: Conspicuously prominent.
- contemptible
- adjective: Worthy of scorn or disdain.
- flimsy
- adjective: Thin and weak.
- vaccinate
- verb: To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
- Parisian
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
- jubilation
- noun: Exultation.
- necessitate
- verb: To render indispensable.
- upturn
- verb: To throw into confusion.
- pedestrian
- noun: One who journeys on foot.
- refinery
- noun: A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
- brogan
- noun: A coarse, heavy shoe.
- prudence
- noun: Caution.
- feasible
- adjective: That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable.
- suspension
- noun: A hanging from a support.
- skirmish
- noun: Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
- atone
- verb: To make amends for.
- preface
- noun: A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
- legacy
- noun: A bequest.
- verification
- noun: The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
- hydroelectric
- adjective: Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
- levy
- verb: To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
- competence
- noun: Adequate qualification or capacity.
- subterfuge
- noun: Evasion.
- wreak
- verb: To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
- penetration
- noun: Discernment.
- writhe
- verb: To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
- exit
- noun: A way or passage out.
- morose
- adjective: Gloomy.
- apparition
- noun: Ghost.
- efficacious
- adjective: Effective.
- erudite
- adjective: Very-learned.
- cipher
- verb: To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
- reluctance
- noun: Unwillingness.
- interrupt
- verb: To stop while in progress.
- convenience
- noun: Fitness, as of time or place.
- foppish
- adjective: Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
- nettle
- verb: To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
- encamp
- verb: To pitch tents for a resting-place.
- reflection
- noun: The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
- posse
- noun: A force of men.
- inexperience
- noun: Lack of or deficiency in experience.
- instill
- verb: To infuse.
- junta
- noun: A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
- hinder
- verb: To obstruct.