SAT Vocab Prep 14
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- excavate
- verb: To remove by digging or scooping out.
- photometry
- noun: The art of measuring the intensity of light.
- giver
- noun: One who gives, in any sense.
- discussion
- noun: Debate.
- semicircle
- noun: A half-circle.
- distiller
- noun: One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
- tractable
- adjective: Easily led or controlled.
- hindmost
- adjective: Farthest from the front.
- potent
- adjective: Physically powerful.
- inestimable
- adjective: Above price.
- regimen
- noun: A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
- compensate
- verb: To remunerate.
- proximately
- aderb: Immediately.
- antilogy
- noun: Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
- beatitude
- noun: Any state of great happiness.
- philanthropy
- noun: Active humanitarianism.
- frivolous
- adjective: Trivial.
- obsolescence
- noun: The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
- pristine
- adjective: Primitive.
- pedal
- noun: A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
- depository
- noun: A place where anything is kept in safety.
- minutia
- noun: A small or unimportant particular or detail.
- encumber
- verb: To impede with obstacles.
- belligerent
- adjective: Manifesting a warlike spirit.
- radical
- noun: One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
- glutinous
- adjective: Sticky.
- perceive
- verb: To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
- longevity
- noun: Unusually prolonged life.
- resonate
- verb: To have or produce resonance.
- treacherous
- adjective: Perfidious.
- aggrandize
- verb: To cause to appear greatly.
- proscription
- noun: Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
- importation
- noun: The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
- eject
- verb: To expel.
- transferable
- adjective: Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
- umbrage
- noun: A sense of injury.
- parricide
- noun: The murder of a parent.
- sycophant
- noun: A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
- consummate
- verb: To bring to completion.
- element
- noun: A component or essential part.
- absorb
- verb: To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
- logician
- noun: An expert reasoner.
- ridiculous
- adjective: Laughable and contemptible.
- manumission
- noun: Emancipation.
- rationalism
- noun: The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
- disinfectant
- noun: A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
- estimable
- adjective: Worthy of respect.
- reparable
- adjective: Capable of repair.
- loath
- adjective: Averse.
- paronymous
- adjective: Derived from the same root or primitive word.
- repulse
- noun: The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
- expiate
- verb: To make satisfaction or amends for.
- reciprocate
- verb: To give and take mutually.
- impartial
- adjective: Unbiased.
- obstruction
- noun: Hindrance.
- promissory
- adjective: Expressing an engagement to pay.
- drudgery
- noun: Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
- telltale
- adjective: That gives warning or information.
- illicit
- adjective: Unlawful.
- obtrusive
- adjective: Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
- invariable
- adjective: Unchangeable.
- zenith
- noun: The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
- acquisition
- noun: Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
- paragon
- noun: A model of excellence.
- alcohol
- noun: A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
- overdo
- verb: To overtax the strength of.
- antenatal
- adjective: Occurring or existing before birth.
- aerostatics
- noun: The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
- triplicate
- adjective: Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
- opportunity
- noun: Favorable or advantageous chance or opening.
- eliminate
- verb: To separate and cast aside.
- gosling
- noun: A young goose.
- liable
- adjective: Justly or legally responsible.
- scruple
- noun: Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
- dissemble
- verb: To hide by pretending something different.
- arbitrary
- adjective: Fixed or done capriciously.
- rue
- verb: To regret extremely.
- assignee
- noun: One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
- subtend
- verb: To extend opposite to.
- diffidence
- noun: Self-distrust.
- fanatic
- noun: A religious zealot.
- malignant
- adjective: Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.
- scholarly
- adjective: Characteristic of an erudite person.
- efficiency
- noun: The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty.
- Sol
- noun: The sun.
- mendicant
- noun: A beggar.
- stupor
- noun: Profound lethargy.
- gallant
- adjective: Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
- demurrage
- noun: the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
- prowess
- noun: Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
- glimpse
- noun: A momentary look.
- quiescence
- noun: Quiet.
- extinguish
- verb: To render extinct.
- cat-o-nine-tails
- noun: An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
- foist
- verb: To palm off.
- deceive
- verb: To mislead by or as by falsehood.
- deteriorate
- verb: To grow worse.
- prickle
- verb: To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
- comestible
- adjective: Fit to be eaten.
- repute
- verb: To hold in general opinion.
- vendor
- noun: A seller.
- luminescence
- noun: Showing increase.
- polar
- adjective: Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
- cataract
- noun: Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
- maze
- noun: A labyrinth.
- concerto
- noun: A musical composition.
- auriferous
- adjective: Containing gold.
- begrudge
- verb: To envy one of the possession of.
- penetrate
- verb: To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
- reunite
- verb: To unite or join again, as after separation.
- clamorous
- adjective: Urgent in complaint or demand.
- orthogonal
- adjective: Having or determined by right angles.
- irreparable
- adjective: That can not be rectified or made amends for.
- irrefrangible
- adjective: That can not be broken or violated.
- improvise
- verb: To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
- investigator
- noun: One who investigates.
- glacier
- noun: A field or stream of ice.
- decorous
- adjective: Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
- underling
- noun: A subordinate.
- pentahedron
- noun: A solid bounded by five plane faces.
- locomotion
- noun: The act or power of moving from one place to another.
- entwine
- verb: To interweave.
- nominal
- adjective: Trivial.
- contemplate
- verb: To consider thoughtfully.
- furtive
- adjective: Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
- euphemism
- noun: A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
- hydrous
- adjective: Watery.
- dissatisfy
- verb: To displease.
- monograph
- noun: A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
- votary
- adjective: Consecrated by a vow or promise.
- rudimentary
- adjective: Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
- replete
- adjective: Full to the uttermost.
- afresh
- aderb: Once more, after rest or interval.
- desperate
- adjective: Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
- aroma
- noun: An agreeable odor.
- paleontology
- noun: The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
- decameter
- noun: A length of ten meters.
- thoroughfare
- noun: A public street or road.
- befog
- verb: To confuse.
- anteroom
- noun: A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
- rupture
- verb: To separate the parts of by violence.
- broach
- verb: To mention, for the first time.
- misbehave
- verb: To behave ill.
- ingratiate
- verb: To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
- sumptuous
- adjective: Rich and costly.
- console
- verb: To comfort.
- unsophisticated
- adjective: Showing inexperience.
- referrer
- noun: One who refers.
- ardor
- noun: Intensity of passion or affection.
- corruption
- noun: Loss of purity or integrity.
- reproduction
- noun: The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
- wane
- verb: To diminish in size and brilliancy.
- generally
- aderb: Ordinarily.
- cant
- verb: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
- personality
- noun: The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
- beneficent
- adjective: Characterized by charity and kindness.
- execration
- noun: An accursed thing.
- distraught
- adjective: Bewildered.
- resistance
- noun: The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
- excusable
- adjective: Justifiable.
- elusion
- noun: Evasion.
- bureau
- noun: A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
- maniac
- noun: a person raving with madness.
- bibliography
- noun: A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
- bombardier
- noun: A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
- digress
- verb: To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
- credible
- adjective: Believable.
- separable
- adjective: Capable of being disjoined or divided.
- grindstone
- noun: A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools.
- well-bred
- adjective: Of good ancestry.
- needy
- adjective: Being in need, want, or poverty.
- dissever
- verb: To divide.
- conscript
- verb: To force into military service.
- mausoleum
- noun: A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
- convulse
- verb: To cause spasms in.
- objective
- adjective: Grasping and representing facts as they are.
- despondent
- adjective: Disheartened.
- braze
- verb: To make of or ornament with brass.
- ineligible
- adjective: Not suitable to be selected or chosen.
- death's-head
- noun: A human skull as a symbol of death.
- nonentity
- noun: A person or thing of little or no account.
- symmetry
- noun: Relative proportion and harmony.
- accessory
- noun: A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
- aggress
- verb: To make the first attack.
- inmost
- adjective: Deepest within.
- inopportune
- adjective: Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
- crucible
- noun: A trying and purifying test or agency.
- perceptible
- adjective: Cognizable.
- ingratitude
- noun: Insensibility to kindness.
- virulence
- noun: Extreme poisonousness.
- irony
- noun: Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
- remembrance
- noun: Recollection.
- cranium
- noun: The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
- omission
- noun: Exclusion.
- corroboration
- noun: Confirmation.
- deify
- verb: To regard or worship as a god.
- prolix
- adjective: Verbose.
- piece
- noun: A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
- engross
- verb: To occupy completely.
- fathom
- noun: A measure of length, 6 feet.
- corollary
- noun: A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
- Calvary
- noun: The place where Christ was crucified.
- Decameron
- noun: A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
- barograph
- noun: An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
- determination
- noun: The act of deciding.
- ground
- noun: A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk.
- aliment
- noun: That which nourishes.
- anatomy
- noun: That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
- determinate
- adjective: Definitely limited or fixed.
- slight
- adjective: Of a small importance or significance.
- scribe
- noun: One who writes or is skilled in writing.
- endurable
- adjective: Tolerable.
- incidentally
- aderb: Without intention.
- inure
- verb: To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
- variance
- noun: Change.
- whimsical
- adjective: Capricious.
- veto
- noun: The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
- benefice
- noun: A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
- indicator
- noun: One who or that which points out.
- gourmand
- noun: A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
- encompass
- verb: To encircle.
- dead-heat
- noun: A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
- incongruous
- adjective: Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
- moccasin
- noun: A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
- stigma
- noun: A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
- maritime
- adjective: Situated on or near the sea.
- contusion
- noun: A bruise.
- prehensible
- adjective: Capable of being grasped.
- criterion
- noun: A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
- amphibious
- adjective: Living both on land and in water.
- juror
- noun: One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
- brigand
- noun: One who lives by robbery and plunder.
- accompanist
- noun: One who or that which accompanies.
- ripplet
- noun: A small ripple, as of water.
- abyss
- noun: Bottomless gulf.
- verbiage
- noun: Use of many words without necessity.
- tantamount
- adjective: Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
- invert
- verb: To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction.
- genealogy
- noun: A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants.
- skepticism
- noun: The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
- fugacious
- adjective: Fleeting.
- lough
- noun: A lake or loch.
- Omnipotent
- adjective: Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
- incite
- verb: To rouse to a particular action.
- progeny
- noun: Offspring.
- pluperfect
- adjective: Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
- lexicographer
- noun: One who makes dictionaries.
- sequestrate
- verb: To confiscate.
- impliable
- adjective: Capable of being inferred.
- penury
- noun: Indigence.