SAT Vocab Prep 05
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- octave
- noun: A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
- accustom
- verb: To make familiar by use.
- migrant
- adjective: Wandering.
- able-bodied
- adjective: Competent for physical service.
- pneumatic
- adjective: Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
- lattice
- noun: Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
- unction
- noun: The art of anointing as with oil.
- perspicuous
- adjective: Lucid.
- fulsome
- adjective: Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
- metallurgy
- noun: The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
- antiquate
- verb: To make old or out of date.
- transgress
- verb: To break a law.
- locative
- adjective: Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
- inadmissible
- adjective: Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
- despair
- noun: Utter hopelessness and despondency.
- ravine
- noun: A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
- momentous
- adjective: Very significant.
- volition
- noun: An act or exercise of will.
- resplendent
- adjective: Very bright.
- recure
- verb: To cure again.
- transferee
- noun: The person to whom a transfer is made.
- succumb
- verb: To cease to resist.
- apiary
- noun: A place where bees are kept.
- pervasion
- noun: The state of spreading through every part.
- symphonic
- adjective: Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
- infamy
- noun: Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation.
- overreach
- verb: To stretch out too far.
- synchronism
- noun: Simultaneousness.
- narrator
- noun: One who narrates anything.
- requiem
- noun: A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
- arrange
- verb: To put in definite or proper order.
- assay
- noun: The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
- sedulous
- adjective: Persevering in effort or endeavor.
- later
- aderb: At a subsequent time.
- disburden
- verb: To disencumber.
- overdose
- noun: An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
- colloquial
- adjective: Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
- poetic
- adjective: Pertaining to poetry.
- bumptious
- adjective: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
- antiphon
- noun: A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
- irrigant
- adjective: Serving to water lands by artificial means.
- ceremonious
- adjective: Observant of ritual.
- natal
- adjective: Pertaining to one's birth.
- consecrate
- verb: To set apart as sacred.
- sinecure
- noun: Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
- deficiency
- noun: Lack or insufficiency.
- complex
- adjective: Complicated.
- robust
- adjective: Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
- abundant
- adjective: Plentiful.
- tyro
- noun: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
- translucence
- noun: The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
- overtone
- noun: A harmonic.
- offhand
- aderb: Without preparation.
- incompressible
- adjective: Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
- differentia
- noun: Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
- underrate
- verb: To undervalue.
- complication
- noun: An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
- compliment
- verb: To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
- alabaster
- noun: A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
- inevitable
- adjective: Unavoidable.
- pupilage
- noun: The state or period of being a student.
- airy
- adjective: Delicate, ethereal.
- objector
- noun: One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
- outreach
- verb: To reach or go beyond.
- dedication
- noun: The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
- outlandish
- adjective: Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
- protuberate
- verb: To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
- anthracite
- noun: Hard coal.
- reversion
- noun: A return to or toward some former state or condition.
- courageous
- adjective: Brave.
- reliquary
- noun: A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
- vertex
- noun: Apex.
- transfusible
- adjective: Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
- plutocracy
- noun: A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
- monotony
- noun: A lack of variety.
- caption
- noun: A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
- incipient
- adjective: Initial.
- evert
- verb: To turn inside out.
- apostasy
- noun: A total departure from one's faith or religion.
- augur
- verb: To predict.
- witling
- noun: A person who has little understanding.
- precipitate
- verb: To force forward prematurely.
- curator
- noun: A person having charge as of a library or museum.
- virulent
- adjective: Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
- derisible
- adjective: Open to ridicule.
- typographical
- adjective: Pertaining to typography or printing.
- chastity
- noun: Sexual or moral purity.
- zodiac
- noun: An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
- magisterial
- adjective: Having an air of authority.
- lewd
- adjective: Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
- abbot
- noun: The superior of a community of monks.
- well-doer
- noun: A performer of moral and social duties.
- subversion
- noun: An overthrow, as from the foundation.
- florid
- adjective: Flushed with red.
- habitable
- adjective: Fit to be dwelt in.
- seance
- noun: A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
- hibernal
- adjective: Pertaining to winter.
- pretentious
- adjective: Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
- outstretch
- verb: To extend.
- sphericity
- noun: The state or condition of being a sphere.
- nefarious
- adjective: Wicked in the extreme.
- perspire
- verb: To excrete through the pores of the skin.
- prostrate
- adjective: Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
- awry
- aderb: Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
- leaflet
- noun: A little leaf or a booklet.
- preposterous
- adjective: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
- elapse
- verb: To quietly terminate: said of time.
- azure
- noun: The color of the sky.
- bethink
- verb: To remind oneself.
- audible
- adjective: Loud enough to be heard.
- converge
- verb: To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
- ravenous
- adjective: Furiously voracious or hungry.
- microscope
- noun: An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
- auricular
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
- discrepant
- adjective: Opposite.
- floe
- noun: A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
- prosody
- noun: The science of poetical forms.
- self-respect
- noun: Rational self-esteem.
- enthrall
- verb: To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
- liquefy
- verb: To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
- undue
- adjective: More than sufficient.
- undergarment
- noun: A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
- transalpine
- adjective: Situated on the other side of the Alps.
- preparatory
- adjective: Having to do with what is preliminary.
- chronology
- noun: The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
- atrocity
- noun: Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
- enshrine
- verb: To keep sacred.
- plagiarism
- noun: The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
- euphonious
- adjective: Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
- prevalent
- adjective: Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
- fickle
- adjective: Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
- protomartyr
- noun: The earliest victim in any cause.
- perforate
- verb: To make a hole or holes through.
- kingling
- noun: A petty king.
- advertiser
- noun: One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
- syneresis
- noun: The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
- acrid
- adjective: Harshly pungent or bitter.
- desist
- verb: To cease from action.
- conductible
- adjective: Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
- indiscriminate
- adjective: Promiscuous.
- transverse
- adjective: Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
- epoch
- noun: A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
- remonstrant
- adjective: Having the character of a reproof.
- plausible
- adjective: Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
- soldier
- noun: A person engaged in military service.
- volitive
- adjective: Exercising the will.
- lowly
- aderb: Rudely.
- pyromania
- noun: An insane propensity to set things on fire.
- descry
- verb: To discern.
- bedeck
- verb: To cover with ornament.
- foggy
- adjective: Obscure.
- pestilential
- adjective: having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
- insufficiency
- noun: Inadequacy.
- oust
- verb: To eject.
- replenish
- verb: To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
- prurient
- adjective: Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
- modernize
- verb: To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
- joggle
- noun: A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
- botanical
- adjective: Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
- aurora
- noun: A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
- momentum
- noun: An impetus.
- persuade
- verb: To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
- ambitious
- adjective: Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
- reformer
- noun: One who carries out a reform.
- expense
- noun: The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
- gravity
- noun: Seriousness.
- ligature
- noun: Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
- psychic
- adjective: Pertaining to the mind or soul.
- hard-hearted
- adjective: Lacking pity or sympathy.
- propellant
- adjective: Propelling.
- freethinker
- noun: One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
- overture
- noun: An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
- contagious
- adjective: Transmitting disease.
- socialism
- noun: A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
- extremity
- noun: The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
- juvenile
- adjective: Characteristic of youth.
- undulate
- verb: To move like a wave or in waves.
- transfigure
- verb: To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
- vagrant
- noun: An idle wanderer.
- gyrate
- verb: To revolve.
- packet
- noun: A bundle, as of letters.
- futile
- adjective: Of no avail or effect.
- flexible
- adjective: Pliable.
- livid
- adjective: Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
- vendition
- noun: The act of selling.
- literal
- adjective: Following the exact words.
- integrity
- noun: Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
- metal
- noun: An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
- fiducial
- adjective: Indicative of faith or trust.
- habitant
- noun: Dweller.
- guileless
- adjective: Frank.
- exclusion
- noun: Non-admission.
- glimmer
- noun: A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
- polygamy
- noun: the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
- evolution
- noun: Development or growth.
- infidel
- noun: One who denies the existence of God.
- doe
- noun: The female of the deer.
- nameless
- adjective: Having no fame or reputation.
- conspirator
- noun: One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
- collide
- verb: To meet and strike violently.
- recruit
- verb: To enlist men for military or naval service.
- burnish
- verb: To make brilliant or shining.
- philately
- noun: The study and collection of stamps.
- cohere
- verb: To stick together.
- brethren
- noun: pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
- barometer
- noun: An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
- triplicity
- noun: The state of being triple or threefold.
- pedant
- noun: A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
- paralyze
- verb: To deprive of the power to act.
- malevolent
- adjective: Wishing evil to others.
- knead
- verb: To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
- pinchers
- noun: An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
- precaution
- noun: A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
- paraphernalia
- noun: Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
- proficient
- adjective: Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
- paramour
- noun: One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
- collaborate
- verb: To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
- betide
- verb: To happen to or befall.
- fervent
- adjective: Ardent in feeling.
- sergeant
- noun: A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
- perversion
- noun: Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
- surround
- verb: To encircle.
- detest
- verb: To dislike or hate with intensity.
- teem
- verb: To be full to overflowing.
- qualification
- noun: A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
- wizen-faced
- adjective: Having a shriveled face.
- excitable
- adjective: Nervously high-strung.
- harass
- verb: To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
- bowler
- noun: In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
- kind-hearted
- adjective: Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
- litigant
- noun: A party to a lawsuit.
- disregard
- verb: To take no notice of.
- archaeology
- noun: The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
- theorize
- verb: To speculate.
- numerical
- adjective: Of or pertaining to number.
- tyrannical
- adjective: Despotic.
- trinity
- noun: A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
- dolor
- noun: Lamentation.
- rebellious
- adjective: Insubordinate.
- anticyclone
- noun: An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
- triennial
- adjective: Taking place every third year.
- influence
- noun: Ability to sway the will of another.
- ichthyic
- adjective: Fish-like.
- hirsute
- adjective: Having a hairy covering.
- rustic
- adjective: Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
- morphology
- noun: the science of organic forms.
- divisible
- adjective: Capable of being separated into parts.
- convene
- verb: To summon or cause to assemble.
- unique
- adjective: Being the only one of its kind.
- transmissible
- adjective: That may e sent through or across.