SAT Vocab Prep 08
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- negligent
- adjective: Apt to omit what ought to be done.
- neo-Latin
- noun: Modernized Latin.
- utility
- noun: Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
- persuadable
- adjective: capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the
- tilth
- noun: Cultivation.
- madden
- verb: To inflame with passion.
- illimitable
- adjective: Boundless.
- consulate
- noun: The place in which a consul transacts official business.
- moonbeam
- noun: A ray of moonlight.
- sarcophagus
- noun: A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
- abed
- aderb: In bed; on a bed.
- immune
- adjective: Exempt, as from disease.
- polyglot
- adjective: Speaking several tongues.
- percipience
- noun: The act of perceiving.
- acoustic
- adjective: Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
- intrigue
- noun: A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
- phenomenon
- noun: Any unusual occurrence.
- incarcerate
- verb: To imprison.
- monopoly
- noun: The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
- onerous
- adjective: Burdensome or oppressive.
- pleasurable
- adjective: Affording gratification.
- indigestible
- adjective: Not digestible, or difficult to digest.
- vestige
- noun: A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
- nectarine
- noun: A variety of the peach.
- retinue
- noun: The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
- subsistence
- noun: Sustenance.
- donator
- noun: One who makes a donation or present.
- forejudge
- verb: To judge of before hearing evidence.
- theism
- noun: Belief in God.
- dominate
- verb: To influence controllingly.
- surcharge
- noun: An additional amount charged.
- steppe
- noun: One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
- prevention
- noun: Thwarting.
- divisor
- noun: That by which a number or quantity is divided.
- specie
- noun: A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
- precursor
- noun: A forerunner or herald.
- repeal
- verb: To render of no further effect.
- impassible
- adjective: Not moved or affected by feeling.
- dialectician
- noun: A logician.
- dolorous
- adjective: Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- jovial
- adjective: Merry.
- animosity
- noun: Hatred.
- despotism
- noun: Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
- servitude
- noun: Slavery.
- miter
- noun: The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
- philander
- verb: To play at courtship with a woman.
- legionary
- noun: A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
- fundamental
- adjective: Basal.
- sergeant-major
- noun: The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
- toilsome
- adjective: Laborious.
- mirage
- noun: An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
- exhaustive
- adjective: Thorough and complete in execution.
- translator
- noun: An interpreter.
- transition
- noun: Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
- corporal
- adjective: Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
- immutable
- adjective: Unchangeable.
- defensible
- adjective: Capable of being maintained or justified.
- cadaverous
- adjective: Resembling a corpse.
- transatlantic
- adjective: Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
- benefactor
- noun: A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
- coerce
- verb: To force.
- spontaneous
- adjective: Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
- egress
- noun: Any place of exit.
- perpendicular
- adjective: Straight up and down.
- canon
- noun: Any rule or law.
- facetious
- adjective: Amusing.
- academy
- noun: Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
- interpolation
- noun: Verbal interference.
- overseer
- noun: A supervisor.
- exonerate
- verb: To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
- statuesque
- adjective: Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
- transmit
- verb: To send trough or across.
- amusement
- noun: Diversion.
- definite
- adjective: Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
- panoply
- noun: A full set of armor.
- pentameter
- noun: In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
- noiseless
- adjective: Silent.
- domicile
- noun: The place where one lives.
- pentavalent
- adjective: Quinqeuvalent.
- manliness
- noun: The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
- ache
- verb: To be in pain or distress.
- pare
- verb: To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
- primitive
- adjective: Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
- fragile
- adjective: Capable of being broken.
- boisterous
- adjective: Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
- gluttonous
- adjective: Given to excess in eating.
- dissolution
- noun: A breaking up of a union of persons.
- illusory
- adjective: Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
- defraud
- verb: To deprive of something dishonestly.
- payee
- noun: A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
- portent
- noun: Anything that indicates what is to happen.
- prattle
- verb: To utter in simple or childish talk.
- equity
- noun: Fairness or impartiality.
- liege
- adjective: Sovereign.
- mystification
- noun: The act of artfully perplexing.
- glorious
- adjective: Of excellence and splendor.
- neglectful
- adjective: Exhibiting or indicating omission.
- inebriate
- verb: To intoxicate.
- crystallize
- verb: To bring together or give fixed shape to.
- foresight
- noun: Provision against harm or need.
- continence
- noun: Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
- irrigate
- verb: To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
- juxtapose
- verb: To place close together.
- Pantheon
- noun: A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
- investor
- noun: One who invests money.
- alchemy
- noun: Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
- boll
- noun: A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
- remuneration
- noun: Compensation.
- phosphorescence
- noun: The property of emitting light.
- reciprocal
- adjective: Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
- consonant
- adjective: Being in agreement or harmony with.
- participate
- verb: To receive or have a part or share of.
- surety
- noun: Security for payment or performance.
- antiseptic
- noun: Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
- crematory
- adjective: A place for cremating dead bodies.
- underhanded
- adjective: Clandestinely carried on.
- incoherence
- noun: Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
- orthodoxy
- noun: Acceptance of the common faith.
- readjust
- verb: To put in order after disarrangement.
- expectancy
- noun: The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable.
- forebode
- verb: To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
- syndicate
- noun: An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
- consumption
- noun: Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
- incendiary
- noun: Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
- waistcoat
- noun: A vest.
- scythe
- noun: A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
- treble
- adjective: Multiplied by three.
- spectrum
- noun: An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
- perform
- verb: To accomplish.
- powerless
- adjective: Impotent.
- bibliomania
- noun: The passion for collecting books.
- plenipotentiary
- noun: A person fully empowered to transact any business.
- frontier
- noun: The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
- antagonism
- noun: Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
- antechamber
- noun: A waiting room for those who seek audience.
- impropriety
- noun: The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate.
- populous
- adjective: Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
- luminous
- adjective: Giving or radiating light.
- exhale
- verb: To breathe forth.
- calculable
- adjective: That may be estimated by reckoning.
- disagree
- verb: To be opposite in opinion.
- becalm
- verb: To make quiet.
- achromatic
- adjective: Colorless,
- dilute
- verb: To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
- brusque
- adjective: Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
- armada
- noun: A fleet of war-vessels.
- comely
- adjective: Handsome.
- exacerbate
- verb: To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
- lieu
- noun: Stead.
- paradox
- noun: A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
- coagulant
- adjective: Producing coagulation.
- contingency
- noun: Possibility of happening.
- plurality
- noun: A majority.
- precipitant
- adjective: Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
- phlegmatic
- adjective: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
- sacrificial
- adjective: Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
- gestation
- noun: Pregnancy.
- outrage
- noun: A gross infringement of morality or decency.
- belle
- noun: A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
- demerit
- noun: A mark for failure or bad conduct.
- polygon
- noun: A figure having many angles.
- Pariah
- noun: A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
- plaudit
- noun: An expression of applause.
- invaluable
- adjective: Exceedingly precious.
- itinerary
- noun: A detailed account or diary of a journey.
- bibliophile
- noun: One who loves books.
- apparent
- adjective: Easily understood.
- mellifluous
- adjective: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
- cathode
- noun: The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
- extort
- verb: To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
- sidelong
- adjective: Inclining or tending to one side.
- innuendo
- noun: Insinuation.
- corrigible
- adjective: Capable of reformation.
- empower
- verb: To delegate authority to.
- hypotenuse
- noun: The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
- emphatic
- adjective: Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
- penalty
- noun: The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
- meliorate
- verb: To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
- advocate
- noun: One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
- homogeneity
- noun: Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
- lax
- adjective: Not stringent or energetic.
- fitful
- adjective: Spasmodic.
- hexapod
- adjective: Having six feet.
- actuary
- noun: An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
- sacrilege
- noun: The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
- opaque
- adjective: Impervious to light.
- concord
- noun: Harmony.
- paroxysm
- noun: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
- unwieldy
- adjective: Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
- pertinacity
- noun: Unyielding adherence.
- oculist
- noun: One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
- discountenance
- verb: To look upon with disfavor.
- vegetarian
- noun: One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
- disqualify
- verb: To debar.
- excellence
- noun: Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities.
- disyllable
- noun: A word of two syllables.
- incompetent
- adjective: Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose.
- divert
- verb: To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- beseech
- verb: To implore.
- deplore
- verb: To regard with grief or sorrow.
- comprehensible
- adjective: Intelligible.
- disappear
- verb: To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
- despot
- noun: An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
- grisly
- adjective: Fear-inspiring.
- sophisticate
- verb: To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
- wee
- adjective: Very small.
- opalescence
- noun: The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
- triad
- noun: A group of three persons of things.
- mentor
- noun: A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend.
- specialty
- noun: An employment limited to one particular line of work.
- finally
- aderb: At last.
- alienable
- adjective: Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
- jeopardize
- verb: To imperil.
- controller
- noun: One who or that which regulates or directs.
- reservoir
- noun: A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
- invalid
- adjective: Having no force, weight, or cogency.
- psychiatry
- noun: The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
- authenticity
- noun: The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
- gourd
- noun: A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
- facilitate
- verb: To make more easy.
- diplomat
- noun: A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
- mastery
- noun: The attainment of superior skill.
- calumny
- noun: Slander.
- irrepressible
- adjective: That can not be restrained or kept down.
- lunatic
- noun: An insane person.
- affix
- verb: To fasten.
- befriend
- verb: To be a friend to, especially when in need.
- federate
- verb: To league together.
- interlocutor
- noun: One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
- reprimand
- verb: To chide or rebuke for a fault.
- susceptibility
- noun: A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
- cabal
- noun: A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
- vacuum
- noun: A space entirely devoid of matter.
- suppress
- verb: To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
- circumspect
- adjective: Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
- nugatory
- adjective: Having no power or force.
- indivertible
- adjective: That can not be turned aside.
- sprightly
- adjective: Vivacious.
- garrison
- noun: The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
- platitude
- noun: A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- ocular
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the eye.
- agitate
- verb: To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
- paucity
- noun: Fewness.
- magnitude
- noun: Importance.
- differentiate
- verb: To acquire a distinct and separate character.
- disrepute
- noun: A bad name or character.
- frequency
- noun: The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
- deformity
- noun: A disfigurement.
- specter
- noun: Apparition.
- joust
- verb: To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.