SAT Vocab Prep 13
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- imaginary
- adjective: Fancied.
- access
- noun: A way of approach or entrance; passage.
- persiflage
- noun: Banter.
- bight
- noun: A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
- philanthropic
- adjective: Benevolent.
- honorarium
- noun: A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
- arcade
- noun: A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
- inextensible
- adjective: Of unchangeable length or area.
- apostate
- adjective: False.
- evade
- verb: To avoid by artifice.
- batten
- noun: A narrow strip of wood.
- superficial
- adjective: Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
- uncommon
- adjective: Rare.
- infusion
- noun: The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
- cohesive
- adjective: Having the property of consistency.
- insufficient
- adjective: Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
- oblong
- adjective: Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
- peccadillo
- noun: A small breach of propriety or principle.
- anxious
- adjective: Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
- fortify
- verb: To provide with defensive works.
- masquerade
- noun: A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
- perusal
- noun: The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
- efflorescent
- adjective: Opening in flower.
- seclusion
- noun: Solitude.
- polytechnic
- adjective: Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
- corpse
- noun: A dead body.
- reflector
- noun: A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
- peccable
- adjective: Capable of sinning.
- trajectory
- noun: The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
- acetate
- noun: A salt of acetic acid.
- metropolitan
- adjective: Pertaining to a chief city.
- terrify
- verb: To fill with extreme fear.
- orate
- verb: To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
- denunciation
- noun: The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
- dissolve
- verb: To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
- noticeable
- adjective: Perceptible.
- drachma
- noun: A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
- dendrology
- noun: The natural history of trees.
- propulsion
- noun: A driving onward or forward.
- cygnet
- noun: A young swan.
- intrusion
- noun: The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment.
- reproof
- noun: An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
- resent
- verb: To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
- fixture
- noun: One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
- eccentricity
- noun: Idiosyncrasy.
- Artesian well
- noun: A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
- truculent
- adjective: Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
- seminary
- noun: A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
- introversion
- noun: The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
- lithograph
- noun: A print made by printing from stone.
- obstetrician
- noun: A practitioner of midwifery.
- ascendant
- adjective: Dominant.
- discord
- noun: Absence of harmoniousness.
- concession
- noun: Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
- observant
- adjective: Quick to notice.
- coronation
- noun: The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
- caitiff
- adjective: Cowardly.
- renovate
- verb: To restore after deterioration, as a building.
- irritant
- noun: A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
- inquisitive
- adjective: Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity.
- tripod
- noun: A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
- ribald
- adjective: Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
- nominee
- noun: One who receives a nomination.
- vie
- verb: To contend.
- vapid
- adjective: Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
- compute
- verb: To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
- nestling
- adjective: Recently hatched.
- burgess
- noun: In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
- autonomy
- noun: Self-government.
- inhume
- verb: To place in the earth, as a dead body.
- coercive
- adjective: Serving or tending to force.
- retrench
- verb: To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
- declamation
- noun: A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
- suave
- adjective: Smooth and pleasant in manner.
- deceitful
- adjective: Fraudulent.
- precise
- adjective: Exact.
- restitution
- noun: Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
- fraudulent
- adjective: Counterfeit.
- importunate
- adjective: Urgent in character, request, or demand.
- confidence
- noun: The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
- countervail
- verb: To offset.
- involuntary
- adjective: Unwilling.
- accomplice
- noun: An associate in wrong-doing.
- polytheism
- noun: The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
- instigate
- verb: To provoke.
- butte
- noun: A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
- Anglophobia
- noun: Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
- luminosity
- noun: The quality of giving or radiating light.
- florist
- noun: A dealer in flowers.
- mettlesome
- adjective: Having courage or spirit.
- atonement
- noun: Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
- scintillate
- verb: To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
- subtrahend
- noun: That which is to be subtracted.
- stagnation
- noun: The condition of not flowing or not changing.
- homophone
- noun: A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
- redress
- verb: To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
- proctor
- noun: An agent acting for another.
- tranquilize
- verb: To soothe.
- militate
- verb: To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
- acid
- noun: A sour substance.
- album
- noun: A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
- gambol
- noun: Playful leaping or frisking.
- guise
- noun: The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
- opposite
- adjective: Radically different or contrary in action or movement.
- mediocre
- adjective: Ordinary.
- risible
- adjective: capable of exciting laughter.
- rote
- noun: Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
- gratuity
- noun: That which is given without demand or claim. Tip.
- relinquish
- verb: To give up using or having.
- octavo
- noun: A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
- bulwark
- noun: Anything that gives security or defense.
- annals
- noun: A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
- reform
- noun: Change for the better.
- winsome
- adjective: Attractive.
- significant
- adjective: Important, especially as pointing something out.
- evolve
- verb: To unfold or expand.
- sensation
- noun: A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
- meddlesome
- adjective: Interfering.
- extradition
- noun: The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
- subtle
- adjective: Discriminating.
- simile
- noun: A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
- preparation
- noun: An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
- vacate
- verb: To leave.
- parse
- verb: To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
- remonstrate
- verb: To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
- generosity
- noun: A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily.
- confederacy
- noun: A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
- asperity
- noun: Harshness or roughness of temper.
- polyhedron
- noun: A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
- mordant
- adjective: Biting.
- anachronism
- noun: Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
- salacious
- adjective: Having strong sexual desires.
- prominent
- adjective: Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
- autopsy
- noun: The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
- photometer
- noun: Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
- circumference
- noun: The boundary-line of a circle.
- vernacular
- noun: The language of one's country.
- diagnose
- verb: To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
- cursive
- adjective: Writing in which the letters are joined together.
- legislate
- verb: To make or enact a law or laws.
- intramural
- adjective: Situated within the walls of a city.
- rivulet
- noun: A small stream or brook.
- effete
- adjective: Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
- logic
- noun: The science of correct thinking.
- indigestion
- noun: Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment.
- quarter
- noun: One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
- inexorable
- adjective: Unrelenting.
- rendezvous
- noun: A prearranged place of meeting.
- excrescence
- noun: Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
- priggish
- adjective: Conceited.
- recreate
- verb: To refresh after labor.
- regretful
- adjective: Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
- declarative
- adjective: Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
- brotherhood
- noun: Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
- confinement
- noun: Restriction within limits or boundaries.
- metaphor
- noun: A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
- annex
- verb: To add or affix at the end.
- incomprehensible
- adjective: Not understandable.
- pioneer
- noun: One among the first to explore a country.
- bellicose
- adjective: Warlike.
- subconscious
- adjective: Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
- regent
- noun: One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
- bestride
- verb: To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
- esquire
- noun: A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
- remunerate
- verb: To pay or pay for.
- comprise
- verb: To consist of.
- fungus
- noun: A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
- repugnant
- adjective: Offensive to taste and feeling.
- verity
- noun: Truth.
- judicature
- noun: Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
- irresistible
- adjective: That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
- overlord
- noun: One who holds supremacy over another.
- grantee
- noun: The person to whom property is transferred by deed.
- temerity
- noun: Recklessness.
- opponent
- noun: One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
- quibble
- noun: An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
- alteration
- noun: Change or modification.
- prefix
- verb: To attach at the beginning.
- pitiless
- adjective: Hard-hearted.
- scintilla
- noun: The faintest ray.
- designate
- verb: To select or appoint, as by authority.
- travesty
- noun: A grotesque imitation.
- disreputable
- adjective: Dishonorable or disgraceful.
- acquittal
- noun: A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
- lovable
- adjective: Amiable.
- assonate
- verb: To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
- photoelectric
- adjective: Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
- employer
- noun: One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.
- extensive
- adjective: Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
- sibilance
- noun: A hissing sound.
- prototype
- noun: A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
- brogue
- noun: Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
- abrogate
- verb: To abolish, repeal.
- discover
- verb: To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
- archaism
- noun: Obsolescence.
- assuage
- verb: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
- antique
- adjective: Pertaining to ancient times.
- enlist
- verb: To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment.
- ramify
- verb: To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
- counterbalance
- verb: To oppose with an equal force.
- intercept
- verb: To interrupt the course of.
- denominator
- noun: Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
- mesmerize
- verb: To hypnotize.
- populace
- noun: The common people.
- inland
- adjective: Remote from the sea.
- nucleus
- noun: A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
- lingual
- adjective: Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance.
- parish
- noun: The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
- reaction
- noun: Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
- obstetrics
- noun: The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during
- statecraft
- noun: The art of conducting state affairs.
- reciprocity
- noun: Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
- puissant
- adjective: Possessing strength.
- isobar
- noun: A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
- rapacious
- adjective: Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
- tercentenary
- adjective: Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
- foolery
- noun: Folly.
- salvage
- noun: Any act of saving property.
- proscribe
- verb: To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
- contemporary
- adjective: Living or existing at the same time.
- conceive
- verb: To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
- allusion
- noun: An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
- stratagem
- noun: Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
- forethought
- noun: Premeditation.
- semiconscious
- adjective: Partially conscious.
- dexterity
- noun: Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
- regality
- noun: Royalty.
- advisory
- adjective: Not mandatory.
- abomination
- noun: A very detestable act or practice.
- bask
- verb: To make warm by genial heat.
- nestle
- verb: To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
- exemplary
- adjective: Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.
- summary
- noun: An abstract.
- foppery
- noun: Dandyism.
- epicycle
- noun: A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
- granulate
- verb: To form into grains or small particles.
- playwright
- noun: A maker of plays for the stage.
- remiss
- adjective: Negligent.
- Epicurean
- adjective: Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
- coagulate
- verb: To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
- superb
- adjective: Sumptuously elegant.
- accelerate
- verb: To move faster.
- pugnacious
- adjective: Quarrelsome.
- protuberant
- adjective: Bulging.
- seize
- verb: To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
- isochronous
- adjective: Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
- chancery
- noun: A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
- abhorrence
- noun: The act of detesting extremely.
- studious
- adjective: Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
- expeditious
- adjective: Speedy.