SAT Vocab Prep 20
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- aberration
- noun: Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
- foreigner
- noun: A citizen of a foreign country.
- polysyllable
- adjective: Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
- tranquil
- adjective: Calm.
- acidify
- verb: To change into acid.
- baste
- verb: To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
- disobedience
- noun: Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
- formation
- noun: Relative disposition of parts.
- suppressible
- adjective: Capable of being suppressed.
- playful
- adjective: Frolicsome.
- moratorium
- noun: An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
- denomination
- noun: A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
- ferocity
- noun: Savageness.
- homage
- noun: Reverential regard or worship.
- collision
- noun: Violent contact.
- forecastle
- noun: That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
- abstinence
- noun: Self denial.
- entomology
- noun: The branch of zoology that treats of insects.
- rotary
- adjective: Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
- resurgent
- adjective: Surging back or again.
- rein
- noun: A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
- somber
- adjective: Gloomy.
- abut
- verb: To touch at the end or boundary line.
- ichthyology
- noun: The branch of zoology that treats of fishes.
- missile
- noun: Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
- census
- noun: An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
- polyarchy
- noun: Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
- overleap
- verb: To leap beyond.
- overpass
- verb: To pass across or over, as a river.
- qualify
- verb: To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
- colloquialism
- noun: Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
- pendulous
- adjective: Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
- profession
- noun: Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
- fatuous
- adjective: Idiotic
- valedictorian
- noun: Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
- deduce
- verb: To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
- complement
- verb: To make complete.
- fulcrum
- noun: The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
- redundance
- noun: Excess.
- ashen
- adjective: Pale.
- odorous
- adjective: Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
- sanctity
- noun: Holiness.
- wittingly
- aderb: With knowledge and by design.
- sirocco
- noun: hot winds from Africa.
- clothier
- noun: One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
- parliament
- noun: A legislative body.
- navigable
- adjective: Capable of commercial navigation.
- dissentious
- adjective: Contentious.
- secede
- verb: To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
- impatience
- noun: Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things.
- propagate
- verb: To spread abroad or from person to person.
- apotheosis
- noun: Deification.
- junction
- noun: The condition of being joined.
- submersion
- noun: The act of submerging.
- obsequies
- noun: Funeral rites.
- regalia
- noun: pl. The emblems of royalty.
- foreman
- noun: The head man.
- academic
- adjective: Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
- lethargy
- noun: Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
- obnoxious
- adjective: Detestable.
- encyclopedia
- noun: A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject.
- apology
- noun: A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
- necrology
- noun: A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
- stellar
- adjective: Pertaining to the stars.
- belie
- verb: To misrepresent.
- judicial
- adjective: Pertaining to the administration of justice.
- inexcusable
- adjective: Not to be justified.
- inbred
- adjective: Innate.
- matrimony
- noun: The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
- caret
- noun: A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
- ecstasy
- noun: Rapturous excitement or exaltation.
- Elizabethan
- adjective: Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.
- respondent
- adjective: Answering.
- infuse
- verb: To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
- epicure
- noun: One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
- redoubtable
- adjective: Formidable.
- accuse
- verb: To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
- wintry
- adjective: Lacking warmth of manner.
- dramatize
- verb: To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
- philosophize
- verb: To seek ultimate causes and principles.
- unison
- noun: A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
- exert
- verb: To make an effort.
- aghast
- adjective: Struck with terror and amazement.
- disconnect
- verb: To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.
- buffoonery
- noun: Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
- impel
- verb: To drive or urge forward.
- manumit
- verb: To set free from bondage.
- ostracize
- verb: To exclude from public or private favor.
- pendant
- noun: Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
- influx
- noun: Infusion.
- poise
- noun: Equilibrium.
- veracious
- adjective: Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
- expend
- verb: To spend.
- entirety
- noun: A complete thing.
- deliquesce
- verb: To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
- saponaceous
- adjective: Having the nature or quality of soap.
- narrow-minded
- adjective: Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
- nonchalance
- noun: A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
- evanescent
- adjective: Fleeting.
- pantoscope
- noun: A very wide-angled photographic lens.
- affirmative
- adjective: Answering yes; to a question at issue.
- recline
- verb: To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
- unanimous
- adjective: Sharing the same views or sentiments.
- bigamy
- noun: The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
- edict
- noun: That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action.
- elude
- verb: To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
- workmanlike
- adjective: Like or befitting a skilled workman.
- prescription
- noun: An authoritative direction.
- dishabille
- noun: Undress or negligent attire.
- deject
- verb: To dishearten.
- practicable
- adjective: Feasible.
- personage
- noun: A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
- clement
- adjective: Compassionate.
- ode
- noun: The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
- knavery
- noun: Deceitfulness in dealing.
- secrecy
- noun: Concealment.
- frigidarium
- noun: A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
- sensorium
- noun: The sensory apparatus.
- aerostat
- noun: A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
- lifetime
- noun: The time that life continues.
- censorious
- adjective: Judging severely or harshly.
- outrageous
- adjective: Shocking in conduct.
- extension
- noun: A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
- impersuadable
- adjective: Unyielding.
- similitude
- noun: Similarity.
- vocable
- noun: a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
- Sybarite
- noun: A luxurious person.
- outpost
- noun: A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
- hypnotism
- noun: An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
- nutritive
- adjective: Having nutritious properties.
- lordling
- noun: A little lord.
- linguist
- noun: One who is acquainted with several languages.
- petrify
- verb: To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
- insurgent
- noun: One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
- necropolis
- noun: A city of the dead.
- syllabic
- adjective: Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
- assassination
- noun: Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
- rookery
- noun: A place where crows congregate to breed.
- prefer
- verb: To hold in higher estimation.
- geniality
- noun: Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
- rampart
- noun: A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
- biennial
- noun: A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
- divinity
- noun: The quality or character of being godlike.
- Augustinian
- adjective: Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
- pharmacopoeia
- noun: A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
- Unitarian
- adjective: Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
- vacillate
- verb: To waver.
- translate
- verb: To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
- furlong
- noun: A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
- fawn
- noun: A young deer.
- bustle
- verb: To hurry.
- technique
- noun: Manner of performance.
- prevalence
- noun: Frequency.
- idolize
- verb: To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
- redound
- noun: Rebound.
- termination
- noun: The act of ending or concluding.
- impertinence
- noun: Rudeness.
- indiscernible
- adjective: Not perceptible.
- irrational
- adjective: Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
- immature
- adjective: Not full-grown.
- baritone
- adjective: Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
- diligence
- noun: Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
- poetics
- noun: The rules and principles of poetry.
- noxious
- adjective: Hurtful.
- accomplish
- verb: To bring to pass.
- comparable
- adjective: Fit to be compared.
- distensible
- adjective: Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
- parentage
- noun: The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
- ally
- noun: A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
- extensor
- noun: A muscle that causes extension.
- furbish
- verb: To restore brightness or beauty to.
- heterogeneous
- adjective: Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
- litigate
- verb: To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
- intolerance
- noun: Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
- inconvenient
- adjective: Interfering with comfort or progress.
- munificent
- adjective: Extraordinarily generous.
- microscopic
- adjective: Adapted to or characterized by minute observation.
- lode
- noun: A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
- ingredient
- noun: Component.
- narration
- noun: The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
- subliminal
- adjective: Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
- dendroid
- adjective: Like a tree.
- equivocal
- adjective: Ambiguous.
- impromptu
- noun: Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment.
- perhaps
- aderb: Possibly.
- characterize
- verb: To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
- excellent
- adjective: Possessing distinguished merit.
- demonstrate
- verb: To prove indubitably.
- outlive
- verb: To continue to exist after.
- confident
- adjective: Assured.
- resource
- noun: That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
- hysteria
- noun: A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
- purgatory
- noun: An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
- statistician
- noun: One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
- abstain
- verb: To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
- indigenous
- adjective: Native.
- degeneracy
- noun: A becoming worse.
- reprehensible
- adjective: Censurable.
- migrate
- verb: To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.
- heartrending
- adjective: Very depressing.
- reminiscent
- adjective: Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
- suffuse
- verb: To cover or fill the surface of.
- testament
- noun: A will.
- presumption
- noun: That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
- purveyor
- noun: one who supplies
- potion
- noun: A dose of liquid medicine.
- marvel
- verb: To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).
- foible
- noun: A personal weakness or failing.
- penurious
- adjective: Excessively sparing in the use of money.
- invective
- noun: An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
- immense
- adjective: Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity.
- dissimilar
- adjective: Different.
- deposition
- noun: Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
- enervate
- verb: To render ineffective or inoperative.
- theology
- noun: The branch of theological science that treats of God.
- vitality
- noun: The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
- disconsolate
- adjective: Grief-stricken.
- filibuster
- noun: One who attempts to obstruct legislation.
- captious
- adjective: Hypercritical.
- incident
- noun: A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
- avalanche
- noun: The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
- derelict
- adjective: Neglectful of obligation.
- addendum
- noun: Something added, or to be added.
- inconsistent
- adjective: Contradictory.
- resilience
- noun: The power of springing back to a former position
- messieurs
- noun: pl. Gentlemen.
- fief
- noun: A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
- superannuate
- verb: To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
- chasm
- noun: A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
- bungle
- verb: To execute clumsily.
- albino
- noun: A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
- separatist
- noun: A seceder.
- mandatory
- adjective: Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory.
- indefinitely
- aderb: In a vague or uncertain way.
- innumerable
- adjective: Countless.
- ambush
- noun: The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
- beneficiary
- noun: One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
- elicit
- verb: To educe or extract gradually or without violence.
- acquaint
- verb: To make familiar or conversant.
- vituperable
- adjective: Deserving of censure.
- circulate
- verb: To disseminate.
- incombustible
- adjective: That can not be burned.
- condolence
- noun: Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
- dilettante
- noun: A superficial amateur.
- unaccountable
- adjective: Inexplicable.
- unfavorable
- adjective: Adverse.
- aver
- verb: To assert as a fact.
- doublet
- noun: One of a pair of like things.
- aye
- aderb: An expression of assent.
- vendible
- adjective: Marketable.