SAT Vocab Prep 07
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- undulous
- adjective: Resembling waves.
- prerogative
- adjective: Having superior rank or precedence.
- retrieve
- verb: To recover something by searching.
- specialize
- verb: To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
- permissible
- adjective: That may be allowed.
- volatile
- adjective: Changeable.
- intrude
- verb: To come in without leave or license.
- journalize
- verb: To keep a diary.
- facile
- adjective: Not difficult to do.
- decamp
- verb: To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
- versatile
- adjective: Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
- auditory
- adjective: Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
- keepsake
- noun: Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
- pandemic
- adjective: Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
- indivisible
- adjective: Not separable into parts.
- anew
- aderb: Once more.
- bulbous
- adjective: Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
- ensnare
- verb: To entrap.
- obituary
- adjective: A published notice of a death.
- imperative
- adjective: Obligatory.
- demented
- adjective: Insane.
- whet
- verb: To make more keen or eager.
- unyoke
- verb: To separate.
- appropriate
- adjective: Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
- deleterious
- adjective: Hurtful, morally or physically.
- lever
- noun: That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
- zealot
- noun: One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
- perquisite
- noun: Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
- optimism
- noun: The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best.
- inhibit
- verb: To hold back or in.
- satiric
- adjective: Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
- preemption
- noun: The right or act of purchasing before others.
- revoke
- verb: To rescind.
- disengage
- verb: To become detached.
- illegible
- adjective: Undecipherable.
- lassie
- noun: A little lass.
- sacrifice
- verb: To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
- hereditary
- adjective: Passing naturally from parent to child.
- insistent
- adjective: Urgent.
- afire
- aderb: On fire, literally or figuratively.
- oddity
- noun: An eccentricity.
- vicissitude
- noun: A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
- corpulent
- adjective: Obese.
- veneer
- noun: Outside show or elegance.
- peevish
- adjective: Petulant. (irritable)
- venerable
- adjective: Meriting or commanding high esteem.
- chattel
- noun: Any article of personal property.
- derision
- noun: Ridicule.
- adjudge
- verb: To award or bestow by formal decision.
- ornate
- adjective: Ornamented to a marked degree.
- tricycle
- noun: A three-wheeled vehicle.
- pittance
- noun: Any small portion or meager allowance.
- daring
- adjective: Brave.
- colleague
- noun: An associate in professional employment.
- antic
- noun: A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
- ought
- verb: To be under moral obligation to be or do.
- felon
- noun: A criminal or depraved person.
- calorie
- noun: Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
- unbridled
- adjective: Being without restraint.
- leviathan
- noun: Any large animal, as a whale.
- judgment
- noun: The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
- miniature
- adjective: Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
- genital
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
- outlaw
- noun: A habitual lawbreaker.
- foot-note
- noun: A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
- materialize
- verb: To take perceptible or substantial form.
- evangelist
- noun: A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
- inborn
- adjective: Implanted by nature.
- pungency
- noun: The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
- privilege
- noun: A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special
- grotesque
- adjective: Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
- inadvisable
- adjective: Unadvisable.
- luscious
- adjective: Rich, sweet, and delicious.
- arid
- adjective: Very dry.
- pedagogy
- noun: The science and art of teaching
- stagnate
- verb: To become dull or inert.
- ingenious
- adjective: Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
- squabble
- verb: To quarrel.
- granule
- noun: A small grain or particle.
- fracture
- noun: A break.
- solicitor
- noun: One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
- tolerant
- adjective: Indulgent.
- anhydrous
- adjective: Withered.
- disburse
- verb: To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. discard
- insensible
- adjective: Imperceptible.
- desistance
- noun: Cessation.
- apogee
- noun: The climax.
- viceroy
- noun: A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
- admonish
- verb: To warn of a fault.
- declension
- noun: The change of endings in nouns and
- decagram
- noun: A weight of 10 grams.
- disappoint
- verb: To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
- protagonist
- noun: A leader in any enterprise or contest.
- probation
- noun: Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
- compulsory
- adjective: Forced.
- surmount
- verb: To overcome by force of will.
- emblem
- noun: A symbol.
- cameo
- noun: Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
- octagon
- noun: A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
- impassive
- adjective: Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling.
- passive
- adjective: Unresponsive.
- predicament
- noun: A difficult, trying situation or plight.
- assonance
- noun: Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
- assiduous
- adjective: Diligent.
- duckling
- noun: A young duck.
- imbrue
- verb: To wet or moisten.
- delectable
- adjective: Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
- conservatism
- noun: Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
- stimulate
- verb: To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
- impervious
- adjective: Impenetrable.
- tableau
- noun: An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
- nondescript
- adjective: Indescribable.
- baleful
- adjective: Malignant.
- avow
- verb: To declare openly.
- ominous
- adjective: Portentous.
- disapprove
- verb: To regard with blame.
- expressive
- adjective: Full of meaning.
- query
- verb: To make inquiry.
- casual
- adjective: Accidental, by chance.
- endanger
- verb: To expose to peril.
- contributor
- noun: One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
- forefather
- noun: An ancestor.
- virago
- noun: A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
- stanza
- noun: A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
- mistrust
- verb: To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
- Milky Way
- noun: The galaxy.
- ingenuity
- noun: Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
- treasonable
- adjective: Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
- forswear
- verb: To renounce upon oath.
- scribble
- noun: Hasty, careless writing.
- ascent
- noun: A rising, soaring, or climbing.
- austere
- adjective: Severely simple; unadorned.
- sociable
- adjective: Inclined to seek company.
- osculate
- verb: To kiss.
- oblique
- adjective: Slanting; said of lines.
- exposure
- noun: An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
- potency
- noun: Power.
- annunciation
- noun: Proclamation.
- productive
- adjective: Yielding in abundance.
- necrosis
- noun: the death of part of the body.
- adjacent
- noun: That which is near or bordering upon.
- approbation
- noun: Sanction.
- discernible
- adjective: Perceivable.
- Protestant
- noun: A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
- sanguinary
- adjective: Bloody.
- instantaneous
- adjective: Done without perceptible lapse of time.
- phonetic
- adjective: Representing articulate sounds or speech.
- physique
- noun: The physical structure or organization of a person.
- butt
- verb: To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
- conservatory
- noun: An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
- assets
- noun: pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
- contiguity
- noun: Proximity.
- nuptial
- adjective: Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
- metropolis
- noun: A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.
- carrion
- noun: Dead and putrefying flesh.
- promulgate
- verb: To proclaim.
- descendent
- adjective: Proceeding downward.
- sufficiency
- noun: An ample or adequate supply.
- emancipate
- verb: To release from bondage.
- apex
- noun: The highest point, as of a mountain.
- devilry
- noun: Malicious mischief.
- deviate
- verb: To take a different course.
- azalea
- noun: A flowering shrub.
- intolerable
- adjective: Insufferable.
- atomizer
- noun: An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
- occult
- adjective: Existing but not immediately perceptible.
- deterrent
- adjective: Hindering from action through fear.
- Newtonian
- adjective: Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
- confiscate
- verb: To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
- beck
- verb: To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
- incisor
- noun: A front or cutting tooth.
- fray
- verb: To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
- inadvertent
- adjective: Accidental.
- absurd
- adjective: Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
- confluence
- noun: The place where streams meet.
- consensus
- noun: A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
- ceremonial
- adjective: Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
- antislavery
- adjective: Opposed to human slavery.
- domination
- noun: Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
- telepathy
- noun: Thought-transference.
- invincible
- adjective: Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
- bequeath
- verb: To give by will.
- toleration
- noun: A spirit of charitable leniency.
- folio
- noun: A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
- reluctant
- adjective: Unwilling.
- hanger-on
- noun: A parasite.
- Renaissance
- noun: The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
- archdeacon
- noun: A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
- transfuse
- verb: To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
- tannery
- noun: A place where leather is tanned.
- ambidextrous
- adjective: Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
- disarrange
- verb: To throw out of order.
- levee
- noun: An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
- whereabouts
- noun: The place in or near which a person or thing is.
- epizootic
- adjective: Prevailing among animals.
- iniquity
- noun: Gross wrong or injustice.
- ambulance
- noun: A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
- pledgeor
- noun: One who gives a pledge.
- workmanship
- noun: The art or skill of a workman.
- sanctimonious
- adjective: Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
- palate
- noun: The roof of the mouth.
- preternatural
- adjective: Extraordinary.
- preferential
- adjective: Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
- herbaceous
- adjective: Having the character of a herb.
- acme
- noun: The highest point, or summit.
- legalize
- verb: To give the authority of law to.
- regime
- noun: Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
- effusion
- noun: an outpouring.
- erratic
- adjective: Irregular.
- truculence
- noun: Ferocity.
- errant
- adjective: Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds.
- swarthy
- adjective: Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
- sonata
- noun: An instrumental composition.
- ferocious
- adjective: Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature.
- charlatan
- noun: A quack.
- comparative
- adjective: Relative.
- overthrow
- verb: To vanquish an established ruler or government.
- dogmatize
- verb: To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
- corrosion
- noun: Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
- orthopedic
- adjective: Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
- folk-lore
- noun: The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
- arboreal
- adjective: Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
- acknowledgment
- noun: Recognition.
- recrudescent
- adjective: Becoming raw or sore again.
- quintessence
- noun: The most essential part of anything.
- generic
- adjective: Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific.
- cede
- verb: To pass title to.
- viol
- noun: A stringed instrument of the violin class.
- browbeat
- verb: To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
- enthuse
- verb: To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
- reflectible
- adjective: Capable of being turned back.
- mutiny
- noun: Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
- sear
- verb: To burn on the surface.
- emulate
- verb: To imitate with intent to equal or surpass.
- outright
- aderb: Entirely.
- interrogatory
- noun: A question or inquiry.
- cantonment
- noun: The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
- laundress
- noun: Washerwoman.
- statute
- noun: Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
- pentathlon
- noun: The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
- forcible
- adjective: Violent.
- collegian
- noun: A college student.
- disarm
- verb: To deprive of weapons.
- soluble
- adjective: Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
- penitential
- adjective: Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
- inexpedient
- adjective: Unadvisable.
- choral
- adjective: Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
- commitment
- noun: The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
- juncture
- noun: An articulation, joint, or seam.
- execrable
- adjective: Abominable.