SAT Vocab Prep 04
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- sentient
- adjective: Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
- sociology
- noun: The philosophical study of society.
- massive
- adjective: Of considerable bulk and weight.
- creak
- noun: A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
- cosmetic
- adjective: Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
- deference
- noun: Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
- aforesaid
- adjective: Said in a preceding part or before.
- brigadier
- noun: General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
- tutelage
- noun: The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
- oral
- adjective: Uttered through the mouth.
- finesse
- noun: Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
- second-rate
- adjective: Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
- isothermal
- adjective: Having or marking equality of temperature.
- apprehensible
- adjective: Capable of being conceived.
- Darwinism
- noun: The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
- violator
- noun: One who transgresses.
- irreverent
- adjective: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
- casualty
- noun: A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
- endurance
- noun: The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
- peaceful
- adjective: Tranquil.
- indestructible
- adjective: That can not be destroyed.
- impracticable
- adjective: Not feasible.
- encyclical
- adjective: Intended for general circulation.
- demolish
- verb: To annihilate.
- spurious
- adjective: Not genuine.
- repugnance
- noun: Thorough dislike.
- cognate
- adjective: Akin.
- interrogate
- verb: To examine formally by questioning.
- streamlet
- noun: Rivulet.
- consignor
- noun: One who entrusts.
- estuary
- noun: A wide lower part of a tidal river.
- cynicism
- noun: Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
- prospectus
- noun: A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
- metric
- adjective: Relating to measurement.
- curio
- noun: A piece of bric-a-brac.
- obsolete
- adjective: No longer practiced or accepted.
- liquefacient
- adjective: Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
- riddance
- noun: The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
- sophism
- noun: A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
- maharaja
- noun: A great Hindu prince.
- out-of-the-way
- adjective: Remotely situated.
- rebuild
- verb: To build again or anew.
- punctual
- adjective: Observant and exact in points of time.
- discomfit
- verb: To put to confusion.
- bombast
- noun: Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
- misanthropic
- adjective: Hating mankind.
- cosmogony
- noun: A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
- galvanism
- noun: Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
- flag-officer
- noun: The captain of a flag-ship.
- omnipotence
- noun: Unlimited and universal power.
- unconscionable
- adjective: Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
- rapt
- adjective: Enraptured.
- reestablish
- verb: To restore.
- inapprehensible
- adjective: Not to be understood.
- hoard
- verb: To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
- exorcise
- verb: To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
- postdate
- verb: To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
- characteristic
- noun: A distinctive feature.
- obelisk
- noun: A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
- orthopedist
- noun: One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
- heretic
- noun: One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
- chivalry
- noun: The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
- vernal
- adjective: Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
- concussion
- noun: A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
- motley
- adjective: Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
- exigency
- noun: A critical period or condition.
- Madonna
- noun: A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
- immortalize
- verb: To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
- wretchedness
- noun: Extreme misery or unhappiness.
- tense
- adjective: Strained to stiffness.
- interim
- noun: Time between acts or periods.
- Calvinize
- verb: To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
- inhuman
- adjective: Savage.
- mandate
- noun: A command.
- abbess
- noun: The lady superior of a nunnery.
- dismissal
- noun: Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
- timbre
- noun: The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
- espy
- verb: To keep close watch.
- tincture
- noun: A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
- man-trap
- noun: A place or structure dangerous to human life.
- feint
- noun: Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
- aerial
- adjective: Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
- inscribe
- verb: To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing.
- disfigure
- verb: To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
- rebuff
- noun: A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
- operator
- noun: One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus.
- heathenish
- adjective: Irreligious.
- fallible
- adjective: Capable of erring.
- saline
- adjective: Constituting or consisting of salt.
- wry
- adjective: Deviating from that which is proper or right.
- acrimony
- noun: Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
- deride
- verb: To ridicule.
- enkindle
- verb: To set on fire.
- overstride
- verb: To step beyond.
- preeminence
- noun: Special eminence.
- obvert
- verb: To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
- abominable
- adjective: Very hateful.
- imbibe
- verb: To drink or take in.
- somniferous
- adjective: Tending to produce sleep.
- hypercritical
- adjective: Faultfinding.
- hexagon
- noun: A figure with six angles.
- abridge
- verb: To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
- stringent
- adjective: Rigid.
- mercantile
- adjective: Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
- advent
- noun: The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
- bursar
- noun: A treasurer.
- service
- noun: Any work done for the benefit of another.
- gesticulate
- verb: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
- humiliate
- verb: To put to shame.
- immigrant
- noun: A foreigner who enters a country to settle there.
- functionary
- noun: An official.
- cataclysm
- noun: Any overwhelming flood of water.
- anagram
- noun: The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
- reprobate
- noun: One abandoned to depravity and sin.
- pontiff
- noun: The Pope.
- alcove
- noun: A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
- needlework
- noun: Embroidery.
- garrulous
- adjective: Given to constant trivial talking.
- felonious
- adjective: Showing criminal or evil purpose.
- tangible
- adjective: Perceptible by touch.
- revile
- verb: To heap approach or abuse upon.
- maroon
- verb: To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
- usurp
- verb: To take possession of by force.
- redolence
- noun: Smelling sweet and agreeable.
- veracity
- noun: Truthfulness.
- misanthropy
- noun: Hatred of mankind.
- submittal
- noun: The act of submitting.
- inversion
- noun: Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
- forby
- aderb: Besides.
- athirst
- adjective: Wanting water.
- consolidate
- verb: To combine into one body or system.
- iridescent
- adjective: Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
- lying
- noun: Untruthfulness.
- reconcilable
- adjective: Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
- septennial
- adjective: Recurring every seven years.
- bray
- noun: A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
- indelible
- adjective: That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
- overeat
- verb: To eat to excess.
- calculus
- noun: A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
- reprisal
- noun: Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
- gendarme
- noun: In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
- lexicon
- noun: A dictionary.
- mantle
- noun: A cloak.
- incandescence
- noun: The state of being white or glowing with heat.
- pectoral
- adjective: Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
- coquette
- noun: A flirt.
- enmity
- noun: Hatred.
- prodigious
- adjective: Immense.
- depreciate
- verb: To lessen the worth of.
- cupidity
- noun: Avarice.
- compressible
- adjective: Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
- supplementary
- adjective: Being an addition to.
- frankincense
- noun: A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
- drainage
- noun: The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
- limitation
- noun: A restriction.
- counterfeit
- adjective: Made to resemble something else.
- ineffable
- adjective: Unutterable.
- infirm
- adjective: Lacking in bodily or mental strength.
- occasion
- noun: An important event or celebration.
- bedlam
- noun: Madhouse.
- attorney-general
- noun: The chief law-officer of a government.
- disfavor
- noun: Disregard.
- pulmonary
- adjective: Pertaining to the lungs.
- acerbity
- noun: Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
- martyrdom
- noun: Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.
- egoism
- noun: The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self.
- priory
- noun: A monastic house.
- precedent
- noun: An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
- condense
- verb: To abridge.
- decency
- noun: Moral fitness.
- continuous
- adjective: Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
- portend
- verb: To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
- righteousness
- noun: Rectitude.
- brae
- noun: Hillside.
- miscount
- verb: To make a mistake in counting.
- prescriptible
- adjective: Derived from authoritative direction.
- repertory
- noun: A place where things are stored or gathered together.
- philharmonic
- adjective: Fond of music.
- entree
- noun: The act of entering.
- rhetorician
- noun: A showy writer or speaker.
- gradient
- adjective: Moving or advancing by steps.
- connubial
- adjective: Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
- stallion
- noun: An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
- underman
- verb: To equip with less than the full complement of men.
- besmear
- verb: To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
- interpreter
- noun: A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.
- conclusive
- adjective: Sufficient to convince or decide.
- culprit
- noun: A guilty person.
- introvert
- verb: To turn within.
- testator
- noun: The maker of a will.
- hypnosis
- noun: An artificial trance-sleep.
- infirmary
- noun: A place for the reception or treatment of the sick.
- magician
- noun: A sorcerer.
- accredit
- verb: To give credit or authority to.
- capacious
- adjective: Roomy.
- satiate
- verb: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
- head first
- aderb: Precipitately, as in diving.
- pandemonium
- noun: A fiendish or riotous uproar.
- orthodox
- adjective: Holding the commonly accepted faith.
- explode
- verb: To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
- protuberance
- noun: Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
- opulence
- noun: Affluence.
- immaculate
- adjective: Without spot or blemish.
- surreptitious
- adjective: Clandestine.
- beget
- verb: To produce by sexual generation.
- incessant
- adjective: Unceasing.
- wean
- verb: To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
- forehead
- noun: The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair.
- exorbitance
- noun: Extravagance or enormity.
- retrospect
- noun: A view or contemplation of something past.
- crag
- noun: A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
- contrivance
- noun: The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
- abdominal
- noun: Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
- pallid
- adjective: Of a pale or wan appearance.
- Iliad
- noun: A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
- inefficiency
- noun: That which does not accomplish an intended purpose.
- inquire
- verb: To ask information about.
- conjugate
- adjective: Joined together in pairs.
- impeccable
- adjective: Blameless.
- proverb
- noun: A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
- acquire
- verb: To get as one's own.
- brevity
- noun: Shortness of duration.
- forepeak
- noun: The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
- sluggard
- noun: A person habitually lazy or idle.
- dolesome
- adjective: Melancholy.
- medieval
- adjective: Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
- demeanor
- noun: Deportment.
- blaspheme
- verb: To indulge in profane oaths.
- prehension
- noun: The act of laying hold of or grasping.
- misogamy
- noun: Hatred of marriage.
- intension
- noun: The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
- adjuration
- noun: A vehement appeal.
- comparison
- noun: Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
- litigious
- adjective: Quarrelsome.
- man-eater
- noun: An animal that devours human beings.
- maleficent
- adjective: Mischievous.
- undermine
- verb: To subvert in an underhand way.
- paramount
- adjective: Supreme in authority.
- extremist
- noun: One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
- bromine
- noun: A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
- recluse
- noun: One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
- idiosyncrasy
- noun: A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
- legitimate
- adjective: Having the sanction of law or established custom.
- convex
- adjective: Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
- municipality
- noun: A district enjoying municipal government.
- further
- adjective: More distant or advanced.
- condescend
- verb: To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
- aboriginal
- adjective: Primitive; unsophisticated.
- forte
- noun: A strong point.
- liking
- noun: Fondness.