SAT Vocab Prep 01
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- competitive
- adjective: characterized by rivalry.
- wantonness
- noun: Recklessness.
- galvanic
- adjective: Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
- effeminacy
- noun: Womanishness.
- avidity
- noun: Greediness.
- magnet
- noun: A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
- compulsion
- noun: Coercion.
- irksome
- adjective: Wearisome.
- merciful
- adjective: Disposed to pity and forgive.
- admonition
- noun: Gentle reproof.
- contravene
- verb: To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
- destitute
- adjective: Poverty-stricken.
- absolve
- verb: To free from sin or its penalties.
- aggrieve
- verb: To give grief or sorrow to.
- suasion
- noun: The act of persuading.
- retouch
- verb: To modify the details of.
- occlude
- verb: To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
- mendacious
- adjective: Untrue.
- inert
- adjective: Inanimate.
- personal
- adjective: Not general or public.
- submerge
- verb: To place or plunge under water.
- sextet
- noun: A band of six singers or players.
- preexistence
- noun: Existence antecedent to something.
- extant
- adjective: Still existing and known.
- panegyric
- noun: A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
- violation
- noun: Infringement.
- deciduous
- adjective: Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
- bier
- noun: A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
- reminiscence
- noun: The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
- rhetoric
- noun: The art of discourse.
- covenant
- noun: An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
- ailment
- noun: Slight sickness.
- transcribe
- verb: To write over again (something already written)
- prophecy
- noun: Any prediction or foretelling.
- deprecate
- verb: To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
- contagion
- noun: The communication of disease from person to person.
- exuberant
- adjective: Marked by great plentifulness.
- physiocracy
- noun: The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
- carnivorous
- adjective: Eating or living on flesh.
- anemic
- adjective: Affected with anemia.
- revelation
- noun: A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
- gentile
- adjective: Belonging to a people not Jewish.
- insolent
- adjective: Impudent.
- monocracy
- noun: Government by a single person.
- theocracy
- noun: A government administered by ecclesiastics.
- rehabilitate
- verb: To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
- harangue
- noun: A tirade.
- pretext
- noun: A fictitious reason or motive.
- implausible
- adjective: Not plausible.
- theological
- adjective: Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
- nausea
- noun: An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
- instigator
- noun: One who incites to evil.
- grenadier
- noun: A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
- parlor
- noun: A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
- dragnet
- noun: A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
- confront
- verb: To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
- chastise
- verb: To subject to punitive measures.
- fraudulence
- noun: Deceitfulness.
- indescribable
- adjective: That can not be described.
- christen
- verb: To name in baptism.
- immovable
- adjective: Steadfast.
- modify
- verb: To make somewhat different.
- perturb
- verb: To disturb greatly.
- furrier
- noun: A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
- intimacy
- noun: Close or confidential friendship.
- phonic
- adjective: Pertaining to the nature of sound.
- naval
- adjective: Pertaining to ships.
- soothsayer
- noun: One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
- precocious
- adjective: Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
- medallion
- noun: A large medal.
- soliloquy
- noun: A monologue.
- physicist
- noun: A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
- prolong
- verb: To extend in time or duration.
- invigorate
- verb: To animate.
- species
- noun: A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
- transferrer
- noun: One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
- apothecary
- noun: One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
- gaiety
- noun: Festivity.
- clangor
- noun: Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
- undersell
- verb: To sell at a lower price than.
- irradiate
- verb: To render clear and intelligible.
- superlative
- noun: That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
- crockery
- noun: Earthenware made from baked clay.
- assonant
- adjective: Having resemblance of sound.
- anathema
- noun: Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
- muster
- noun: An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
- autocrat
- noun: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
- pusilanimous
- adjective: Without spirit or bravery.
- novice
- noun: A beginner in any business or occupation.
- fretful
- adjective: Disposed to peevishness.
- dispel
- verb: To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
- earnest
- adjective: Ardent in spirit and speech.
- recapture
- verb: To capture again.
- pestilence
- noun: A raging epidemic.
- refer
- verb: To direct or send for information or other purpose.
- revert
- verb: To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
- acquiesce
- verb: To comply; submit.
- terminus
- noun: The final point or goal.
- vermin
- noun: A noxious or troublesome animal.
- hesitancy
- noun: A pausing to consider.
- undervalue
- verb: To underestimate.
- constituent
- noun: One who has the right to vote at an election.
- diaphanous
- adjective: Transparent.
- coincide
- verb: To correspond.
- inflammation
- noun: A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
- taxation
- noun: A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
- invasion
- noun: Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass.
- palpable
- noun: perceptible by feeling or touch.
- enigma
- noun: A riddle.
- vale
- noun: Level or low land between hills.
- territorial
- adjective: Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
- pediatrics
- noun: The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
- advert
- verb: To refer incidentally.
- antonym
- noun: A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
- squatter
- noun: One who settles on land without permission or right.
- numeration
- noun: The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
- financier
- noun: One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
- enormous
- adjective: Gigantic.
- efficient
- adjective: Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
- effervesce
- verb: To bubble up.
- surrogate
- noun: One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
- inherent
- adjective: Intrinsic.
- obdurate
- adjective: Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
- lithotype
- noun: In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
- preengage
- verb: To preoccupy.
- alluvion
- noun: Flood.
- finale
- noun: Concluding performance.
- exemplar
- noun: A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
- cynical
- adjective: Exhibiting moral skepticism.
- beau
- noun: An escort or lover.
- anthropomorphous
- adjective: Having or resembling human form.
- meticulous
- adjective: Over-cautious.
- deform
- verb: To disfigure.
- tortious
- adjective: Wrongful.
- despicable
- adjective: Contemptible.
- prelude
- noun: An introductory or opening performance.
- undeceive
- verb: To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
- repository
- noun: A place in which goods are stored.
- indefensible
- adjective: Untenable.
- legislator
- noun: A lawgiver.
- admissible
- adjective: Having the right or privilege of entry.
- belittle
- verb: To disparage.
- normalcy
- noun: The state of being normal.
- laddie
- noun: A lad.
- emigrant
- noun: One who moves from one place to settle in another.
- clandestine
- adjective: Surreptitious.
- dishonest
- adjective: Untrustworthy.
- ridicule
- noun: Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
- possible
- adjective: Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
- misbehavior
- noun: Ill or improper behavior.
- Gordian knot
- noun: Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
- indolence
- noun: Laziness.
- odious
- adjective: Hateful.
- energetic
- adjective: Working vigorously.
- propaganda
- noun: Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
- solicitude
- noun: Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
- commute
- verb: To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
- ascension
- noun: The act of rising.
- insipid
- adjective: Tasteless.
- plural
- adjective: Containing or consisting of more than one.
- bitterness
- noun: Acridity, as to the taste.
- duteous
- adjective: Showing submission to natural superiors.
- hernia
- noun: Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
- bureaucracy
- noun: Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
- jaundice
- noun: A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.
- collapse
- verb: To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
- detrude
- verb: To push down forcibly.
- contumacy
- noun: Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
- contradiction
- noun: The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
- astringent
- adjective: Harsh in disposition or character.
- resilient
- adjective: Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
- elegy
- noun: A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
- shuffle
- noun: A mixing or changing the order of things.
- prominence
- noun: The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
- collapsible
- adjective: That may or can collapse.
- accordion
- noun: A portable free-reed musical instrument.
- censor
- noun: An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
- onus
- noun: A burden or responsibility.
- recuperate
- verb: To recover.
- impious
- adjective: Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.
- fete
- noun: A festival or feast.
- bestrew
- verb: To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
- prudential
- adjective: Proceeding or marked by caution.
- sustenance
- noun: Food.
- dwindle
- verb: To diminish or become less.
- outride
- verb: To ride faster than.
- transplant
- verb: To remove and plant in another place.
- clumsy
- adjective: Awkward of movement.
- metamorphosis
- noun: A passing from one form or shape into another.
- catastrophe
- noun: Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
- sergeant-at-arms
- noun: An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
- guess
- noun: Surmise.
- centiliter
- noun: A hundredth of a liter.
- covert
- adjective: Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
- consul
- noun: An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
- heritage
- noun: Birthright.
- stimulus
- noun: Incentive.
- effervescent
- adjective: Giving off bubbles of gas.
- necessity
- noun: That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
- distort
- verb: To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
- savor
- verb: To perceive by taste or smell.
- pantomime
- noun: Sign-language.
- benefit
- noun: Helpful result.
- animate
- verb: To make alive.
- vociferate
- verb: To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
- unctuous
- adjective: Oily.
- parallel
- verb: To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
- aviary
- noun: A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
- suppression
- noun: A forcible putting or keeping down.
- furlough
- noun: A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
- adulterate
- verb: To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
- precession
- noun: The act of going forward.
- thereabout
- aderb: Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
- aborigines
- noun: The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
- therefor
- aderb: For that or this.
- intervale
- noun: A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
- conferee
- noun: A person with whom another confers.
- success
- noun: A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
- denote
- verb: To designate by word or mark.
- Americanism
- noun: A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
- precision
- noun: Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
- benign
- adjective: Good and kind of heart.
- constellation
- noun: An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
- variation
- noun: Modification.
- lacerate
- verb: To tear rudely or raggedly.
- anode
- noun: The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
- disinherit
- verb: To deprive of an inheritance.
- cessation
- noun: Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
- ignoble
- adjective: Low in character or purpose.
- graceless
- adjective: Ungracious.
- pentad
- noun: The number five.
- dissonant
- adjective: Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
- emporium
- noun: A bazaar or shop.
- pernicious
- adjective: Tending to kill or hurt.
- deity
- noun: A god, goddess, or divine person.
- interminable
- adjective: Having no limit or end.
- frantic
- adjective: Frenzied.
- onslaught
- noun: A violent onset.
- embolden
- verb: To give courage to.
- rabid
- adjective: Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
- miser
- noun: A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
- consanguineous
- adjective: Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
- irate
- adjective: Moved to anger.
- midwife
- noun: A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
- declamatory
- adjective: A full and formal style of utterance.
- legging
- noun: A covering for the leg.
- descent
- noun: The act of moving or going downward.
- magnate
- noun: A person of rank or importance.
- arbitrate
- verb: To act or give judgment as umpire.