SAT Vocab #2 (9th).pdf

SAT Vocabulary #2 Acclaim: (n.) high praise (Greg’s excellent poem won Lenient: (adj.) demonstrating tolerance or gentleness the acclaim of his friends.) (Because Professor Oglethorpe allowed his students...

SAT Vocabulary #2 Acclaim: (n.) high praise (Greg’s excellent poem won Lenient: (adj.) demonstrating tolerance or gentleness the acclaim of his friends.) (Because Professor Oglethorpe allowed his students to choose their final grades, the other teachers Antithesis: (n.) the absolute opposite (Your values, believed that he was excessively lenient.) which hold war and violence in the highest esteem, are the antithesis of my pacifist beliefs.) Maverick: (n.) an independent, nonconformist person (Andreas is a real maverick and always does things Brazen: (adj.) excessively bold, brash (Critics his own way.) condemned the novelist’s brazen attempt to plagiarize Hemingway’s story.) Mundane: (adj.) concerned with the world rather than with heaven, commonplace (He is more Caucus: (n.) a meeting usually held by people concerned with the mundane issues of day-to-day working toward the same goal (The ironworkers held life than with spiritual topics.) a caucus to determine how much of a pay increase they would request.) Negligent: (adj.) habitually careless, neglectful (Jessie’s grandfather called me a negligent fool after Conformist: (n.) one who behaves the same as I left the door to his apartment unlocked even though others (Julian was such a conformist that he had to there had been a recent string of robberies.) wait and see if his friends would do something before he would commit.) Obsolete: (adj.) no longer used, out of date (With the inventions of tape decks and CDs, which both have Exalt: (v.) to glorify, praise (Michael Jordan is the better sound and are easier to use, eight-track figure in basketball we exalt the most.) players are now entirely obsolete.) Hierarchy: (n.) a system with ranked groups, usually Potable: (adj.) suitable for drinking (During sea according to social, economic, or professional class voyages it is essential that ships carry a supply of (Women found it very difficult to break into the upper potable water because salty ocean water makes ranks of the department’s hierarchy.) anyone who drinks it sick.) Inept: (adj.) not suitable or capable, unqualified (She Sobriety: (n.) sedate, calm (Jason believed that proved how inept she was when she forgot three maintaining his sobriety in times of crisis was the key orders and spilled a beer in a customer’s lap.) to success in life.) Grandiose: (adj.) on a magnificent or exaggerated Transgress: (v.) to violate, go over a limit (The scale (Margaret planned a grandiose party, replete criminal’s actions transgressed morality and human with elephants, trapeze artists, and clowns.) decency.) Jubilant: (adj.) extremely joyful, happy (The crowd Uncanny: (adj.) of supernatural character or origin was jubilant when the firefighter carried the woman (Luka had an uncanny ability to know exactly what from the flaming building.) other people were thinking. She also had an uncanny ability to shoot fireballs from her hands.) Verbose: (adj.) wordy, impaired by wordiness (It took the verbose teacher two hours to explain the topic, while it should have taken only fifteen minutes.)