SAT Vocabulary Chapters 1-5
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What does the word 'audacious' mean?

  • Shy
  • Boring
  • Atypical
  • Excessively bold (correct)

    • A banal presentation is considered exciting and impressive.

    False

    Define 'benevolent'.

    Marked by goodness or doing good

    The missing person's shouts were unfortunately not __________.

    <p>audible</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their definitions:

    <p>Balk = To stop, block abruptly Bequeath = To pass on, give Bilk = Cheat, defraud Calibrate = To set, standardize</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'abase' mean?

    <p>To humiliate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Abduction means to kidnap someone forcefully.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Define 'abdicate'.

    <p>To give up a position, usually one of leadership</p> Signup and view all the answers

    An _______ is something that differs from the norm.

    <p>aberration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their meanings:

    <p>accost = to confront verbally acclaim = high praise abrogate = to abolish, usually by authority agriculture = farming</p> Signup and view all the answers

    His feelings about Calvin are ______ because on one hand he is a loyal friend, but on the other, he is a cruel and vicious thief.

    <p>ambiguous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term means 'having opposing feelings'?

    <p>Ambivalent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Define 'amenable'.

    <p>willing, compliant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    An amorous person shows love, particularly platonic love.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their meanings:

    <p>Antiquated = old, out of date Antiseptic = clean, sterile Arboreal = relating to trees Artifact = a remaining piece from an extinct culture or place</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Albert's diary chronicled the day-to-day growth of his obsession with Cynthia. The word 'chronicle' means to ________ a history.

    <p>write</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which word means 'arranged in order of time'?

    <p>Chronological</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Clandestine means to be open and transparent.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'cloying' mean?

    <p>sickeningly sweet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their definitions:

    <p>Compelling = forceful, demanding attention Complacent = self-satisfied ignorance of danger Commendation = a notice of approval or recognition Circumvent = to get around</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The __ barked.

    <p>dog</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does it mean to 'concede'?

    <p>To accept as valid</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Define 'comprehensive'.

    <p>including everything</p> Signup and view all the answers

    A conflagration is a small, controlled fire.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their meanings:

    <p>concoct = to fabricate, make up consolation = an act of comforting corroborate = to support with evidence congress = a gathering of people, especially for political purposes coup = the overthrow of a government and assumption of authority</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Fields's criteria for good cookies are that they be ____ and chewy.

    <p>moist</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'culmination' mean?

    <p>the climax toward which something progresses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'cupidity' mean?

    <p>Greed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Debauch means to purify something.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Define the word 'disdain'.

    <p>scorn, low esteem</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'disheartened' mean?

    <p>Feeling a loss of spirit or morale</p> Signup and view all the answers

    To drive away or scatter is to __________.

    <p>dispel</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Docile means resistant to being taught or trained.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following terms with their definitions:

    <p>effulgent = radiant, splendorous duplicity = crafty dishonesty eloquent = expressive, articulate, moving emulate = to imitate divulge = to reveal something secret</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Her pudding is so execrable that it makes me ____. (Fill in the blank)

    <p>sick</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their meanings:

    <p>enmity = ill will, hatred, hostility epistolary = relating to or contained in letters euphoric = elated, uplifted exacerbate = to make more violent, intense</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match the following words with their definitions:

    <p>imperative = a rule, command, or order imperious = commanding, domineering impertinent = rude, insolent impervious = impenetrable, incapable of being affected impetuous = rash; hastily done</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'incendiary' mean?

    <p>A person who agitates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The hail __ the roof, leaving large dents.

    <p>impinged</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Inarticulate means capable of expressing oneself clearly through speech.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'indefatigable' mean?

    <p>incapable of defeat, failure, decay</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Vocabulary Building

    • Abase: to humiliate or degrade
      • Example: After being overthrown, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.
    • Abate: to reduce or lessen
      • Example: The rain poured down for a while, then abated.
    • Abdicate: to give up a position, usually one of leadership
      • Example: When he realized the revolutionaries would win, the king abdicated his throne.
    • Abduct: to kidnap or take by force
      • Example: The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.
    • Aberration: something that differs from the norm
      • Example: In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration.

    More Vocabulary

    • Abet: to aid, help, or encourage
      • Example: The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.
    • Abhor: to hate or detest
      • Example: Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.
    • Abide: to put up with or remain
      • Example: Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.
    • Abject: wretched, pitiful
      • Example: After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.
    • Abjure: to reject or renounce
      • Example: To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.

    Even More Vocabulary

    • Abnegation: denial of comfort to oneself
      • Example: The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.
    • Abort: to give up on a half-finished project or effort
      • Example: After they ran out of food, the men attempting to jump rope around the world had to abort and go home.
    • Abridge: to cut down or shorten
      • Example: The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it.
    • Abrogate: to abolish, usually by authority
      • Example: The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.
    • Abscond: to sneak away and hide
      • Example: In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.

    And Even More Vocabulary

    • Absolution: freedom from blame, guilt, or sin
      • Example: Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.
    • Abstain: to freely choose not to commit an action
      • Example: Everyone demanded that Angus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.
    • Abstruse: hard to comprehend
      • Example: John found geometry abstruse.
    • Accede: to agree
      • Example: When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball instead of learn grammar, he acceded to their request.
    • Accentuate: to stress or highlight
      • Example: Psychologists agree that those who are happiest accentuate the positive in life.

    Accessible to Adumbrate

    • Accessible: obtainable, reachable
      • Example: After studying with SparkNotes and getting a great score on the SAT, Marlena happily realized that her goal of getting into an Ivy-League college was accessible.
    • Acclaim: high praise
      • Example: Greg's excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.
    • Accolade: high praise, special distinction
      • Example: Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the Noble Prize.
    • Accommodating: helpful, obliging, polite
      • Example: Though the apartment was not big enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were all friends and were accommodating to each other.
    • Accord: an agreement
      • Example: After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off the coast of Greenland.

    Adumbrate to Aisle

    • Adumbrate: to sketch out in a vague way
      • Example: The coach adumbrated a game plan, but none of the players knew precisely what to do.
    • Adverse: antagonistic, unfavorable, dangerous
      • Example: Because of adverse conditions, the hikers decided to give up trying to climb the mountain.
    • Advocate: to argue in favor of something
      • Example: Arnold advocated turning left at every stop sign, even though everyone else thought they should turn right.
    • Aerial: related to the air
      • Example: We watched as the fighter planes conducted aerial maneuvers.
    • Aesthetic: artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty
      • Example: We hired Susan as our interior decorator because she has such a fine aesthetic sense.
    • Affable: friendly, amiable
      • Example: People like to be around George because he is so affable and good-natured.

    Aggrandize to Aisle

    • Aggrandize: to increase or make greater

      • Example: Joseph always dropped the names of the famous people his father knew as a way to aggrandize his personal stature.

    • Aggregate: a whole or total

      • Example: The three branches of the U.S. Government form an aggregate much more powerful than its individual parts.

    • Aggrieved: distressed, wronged, injured

      • Example: The foreman mercilessly overworked his aggrieved employees.

    • Agile: quick, nimble

      • Example: The dogs were too slow to catch the agile rabbit.

    • Agnostic: believing that the existence of God cannot be proven or disproven

      • Example: Joey's parents are very religious, but he is agnostic.

    • Agriculture: farming

      • Example: It was a huge step in the progress of civilization when tribes left hunting and gathering and began to develop more sustainable methods of obtaining food, such as agriculture.

    • Aisle: a passageway between rows of seats

      • Example: Once we got inside the stadium, we walked down the aisle to our seats.### SAT Vocabulary

    • Apprehend: to perceive, understand, or grasp something (e.g., the student has trouble apprehending concepts in math and science)

    • Approbation: praise or approval (e.g., the crowd welcomed the heroes with approbation)

    • Appropriate: to take or make use of something (e.g., the government appropriated the farmer's land without justification)

    • Aquatic: relating to water (e.g., the marine biologist studies starfish and other aquatic creatures)

    • Arable: suitable for growing crops (e.g., the farmer purchased a plot of arable land on which he will grow corn and sprouts)

    • Arbiter: one who can resolve a dispute or make a decision (e.g., the divorce court judge will serve as the arbiter between the estranged husband and wife)

    • Arbitrary: based on factors that appear random (e.g., the boy's decision to choose one college over another seems arbitrary)

    • Arbitration: the process or act of resolving a dispute (e.g., the employee sought official arbitration when he could not resolve a disagreement with his supervisor)

    More SAT Vocabulary

    • Arboreal: of or relating to trees (e.g., leaves, roots, and bark are a few arboreal traits)

    • Arcane: obscure, secret, or known only by a few (e.g., the professor is an expert in arcane Lithuanian literature)

    • Archaic: of or relating to an earlier period in time, outdated (e.g., in a few select regions of Western Mongolian, an archaic Chinese dialect is still spoken)

    • Archetypal: the most representative or typical example of something (e.g., some believe George Washington, with his flowing white hair and commanding stature, was the archetypal politician)

    • Ardor: extreme vigor, energy, or enthusiasm (e.g., the soldiers conveyed their ardor with impassioned battle cries)

    • Arid: excessively dry (e.g., little other than palm trees and cacti grow successfully in arid environments)

    SAT Vocabulary Continues

    • Arrogate: to take without justification (e.g., the king arrogated the right to order executions to himself exclusively)

    • Artifact: a remaining piece from an extinct culture or place (e.g., the scientists spent all day searching the cave for artifacts from the ancient Mayan civilization)

    • Artisan: a craftsman (e.g., the artisan uses wood to make walking sticks)

    • Ascertained: to perceive or learn something (e.g., with a bit of research, the student ascertained that some plants can live for weeks without water)

    • Ascetic: practicing restraint as a means of self-discipline, usually religious (e.g., the priest lives an ascetic life devoid of television, savory foods, and other pleasures)

    And More SAT Vocabulary

    • Ascribe: to assign, credit, or attribute something to (e.g., some ascribe the invention of fireworks and dynamite to the Chinese)

    • Aspersion: a curse or expression of ill-will (e.g., the rival politicians repeatedly cast aspersions on each other's integrity)

    • Aspire: to long for or aim toward something (e.g., the young poet aspires to publish a book of verse someday)

    • Assail: to attack (e.g., at dawn, the war planes assailed the boats in the harbor)

    • Assess: to evaluate (e.g., a crew arrived to assess the damage after the crash)

    • Assiduous: hard-working, diligent (e.g., the construction workers erected the skyscraper during two years of assiduous labor)

    • Assuage: to ease or pacify (e.g., the mother held the baby to assuage its fears)

    More SAT Vocabulary

    • Astute: very clever, crafty (e.g., much of Roger's success in politics results from his ability to provide astute answers to reporters' questions)

    • Asylum: 1) a place of refuge or protection, a sanctuary (e.g., for Thoreau, the forest served as an asylum from the pressures of urban life), 2) an institution in which the insane are kept (e.g., once diagnosed by a certified psychiatrist, the man was put in an asylum)

    • Atonement: to repent or make amends (e.g., the man atoned for forgetting his wife's birthday by buying her five dozen roses)

    • Atrophy: to wither away or decay (e.g., if muscles do not receive enough blood, they will soon atrophy and die)

    • Attain: to achieve or arrive at (e.g., the athletes strived to attain their best times in competition)

    • Attribute: 1) to credit or assign (e.g., he attributes all of his success to his mother's undying encouragement), 2) a facet or trait (e.g., among the beetle's most peculiar attributes is its thorny protruding eyes)

    And More SAT Vocabulary

    • Atypical: not typical, unusual (e.g., screaming and crying is atypical adult behavior)

    • Audacious: excessively bold (e.g., the security guard was shocked by the fan's audacious attempt to offer him a bribe)

    • Audible: able to be heard (e.g., the missing person's shouts were unfortunately not audible)

    • Augment: to add to or expand (e.g., the eager student seeks to augment his knowledge of French vocabulary by reading French literature)

    • Auspicious: favorable, indicative of good things (e.g., the tennis player considered the sunny forecast an auspicious sign that she would win her match)

    • Austere: very bare, bleak (e.g., the austere furniture inside the abandoned house made the place feel haunted)

    • Avarice: excessive greed (e.g., the banker's avarice led him to amass a tremendous personal fortune)

    More SAT Vocabulary

    • Avenge: to seek revenge (e.g., the victims will take justice into their own hands and strive to avenge themselves against the men who robbed them)

    • Aversion: a particular dislike for something (e.g., because he's from Hawaii, Ben has an aversion to autumn, winter, and cold climates in general)

    • Balk: to stop or block abruptly (e.g., Edna's boss balked at her request for another raise)

    • Ballad: a love song (e.g., Greta's boyfriend played her a ballad on the guitar during their walk through the dark woods)

    • Banal: dull, commonplace (e.g., the client rejected our proposal because they found our presentation banal and unimpressive)

    • Bane: a burden (e.g., advanced physics is the bane of many students' academic lives)

    • Bard: a poet, often a singer as well (e.g., Shakespeare is often considered the greatest bard in the history of the English language)

    And More SAT Vocabulary

    • Bashful: shy, excessively timid (e.g., Frankie's mother told him not to be bashful when he refused to attend the birthday party)

    • Battery: 1) a device that supplies power (e.g., most cars run on a combination of power from a battery and gasoline), 2) assault, beating (e.g., her husband was accused of assault and battery after he attacked a man on the sidewalk)

    • Beguile: to trick, deceive (e.g., the thief beguiled his partners into surrendering all of their money to him)

    • Behemoth: something of tremendous power or size (e.g., the new aircraft carrier is among several behemoths that the Air Force has added to its fleet)

    • Benevolent: marked by goodness or doing good (e.g., police officers should be commended for their benevolent service to the community)

    • Benign: favorable, not threatening, mild (e.g., we were all relieved to hear that the medical tests determined her tumor to be benign)

    • Bequeath: to pass on or give (e.g., Jon's father bequeathed his entire estate to his mother)

    And More SAT Vocabulary

    • Berate: to scold vehemently (e.g., the angry boss berated his employees for failing to meet their deadline)

    • Bereft: devoid of, without (e.g., his family was bereft of food and shelter following the tornado)

    • Beseech: to beg, plead, implore (e.g., the servant beseeched the king for food to feed his starving family)

    • Bias: a tendency, inclination, prejudice (e.g., the judge's hidden bias against smokers led him to make an unfair decision)

    • Bilk: to cheat, defraud (e.g., the lawyer discovered that this firm had bilked several clients out of thousands of dollars)

    More SAT Vocabulary

    • Blandish: to coax by using flattery (e.g., Rachel's assistant tried to blandish her into accepting the deal)

    • Blemish: an imperfection, flaw (e.g., the dealer agreed to lower the price because of the many blemishes on the surface of the wooden furniture)

    • Blight: 1) a plague, disease (e.g., the potato blight destroyed the harvest and bankrupted many families), 2) something that destroys hope (e.g., his bad morale is### Vocabulary Study Notes

    • secondary (adj.): related to a subordinate or auxiliary role

      • Example: Divorcing my wife had the collateral effect of making me poor, as she was the only one of us with a job or money.

    • colloquial (adj.): characteristic of informal conversation

      • Example: Adam's essay on sexual response in primates was marked down because it contained too many colloquial expressions.

    • collusion (n.): secret agreement, conspiracy

      • Example: The three law students worked in collusion to steal the final exam.

    • colossus (n.): a gigantic statue or thing

      • Example: For 56 years, the ancient city of Rhodes featured a colossus standing astride its harbor.

    • combustion (n.): the act or process of burning

      • Example: The unexpected combustion of the prosecution's evidence forced the judge to dismiss the case against Ramirez.

    • commendation (n.): a notice of approval or recognition

      • Example: Jared received a commendation from Linda, his supervisor, for his stellar performance.

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