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SSAT Vocab Part 2
words you should know for the ssat
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| choleric | Easily provoked to anger. |
| circulate | To disseminate. |
| clandestine | Surreptitious. |
| clarity | the quality of being clearly expressed |
| coalesce | combine; fuse; N. coalescence |
| concede | To surrender. |
| condescend | To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors. |
| condone | forgive |
| confound | confuse; puzzle |
| congeal | To coagulate. |
| congenial | Having kindred character or tastes. |
| consensus | A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons. |
| contemptuous | Disdainful. |
| contentious | argumentative, quarrelsome |
| contiguous | Touching or joining at the edge or boundary. |
| contradict | to argue against the truth or correctness of somebody’s statement or claim |
| contrition | deep and genuine feelings of guilt and remorse |
| conventional | ordinary; typical; not nuclear; Ex. conventional weapons |
| corpulent | Obese. |
| correlation | mutual relationship |
| counsel | somebody whose advice is sought, or who acts as an official adviser |
| crevice | A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces. |
| cumulative growing by addition; accumulative | (blank) |
| debilitating | reducing somebody’s strength or energy |
| debunk | expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule |
| decompose | to rot; to break something down, or be broken down, into smaller or simpler parts |
| decree | order given by authority |
| deficient | Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount. |
| deft | neat; skillful |
| deleterious | Hurtful, morally or physically. |
| delusion | Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring. |
| despair | Utter hopelessness and despondency. |
| deteriorate | To grow worse. |
| dexterity | Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work. |
| dilute | To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something. |
| dingy | (of things and place) dirty and dull; Ex. dingy street/curtain |
| disparage | To regard or speak of slightingly. |
| distort | To twist into an unnatural or irregular form. |
| dormant | Being in a state of or resembling sleep. |
| dread | to feel extremely frightened or worried about something that may happen in the future |
| dubious | Doubtful. |
| egotist | One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences. |
| egress | Any place of exit. |
| elaborate | worked out with much care in great detail |
| elongate | to make something longer, or become longer |
| embroider | decorate with needlework; ornament (a story) with fancy or fictitious |
| emulate | To imitate with intent to equal or surpass. |
| epoch | A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events. |
| equivalent | Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like. |
| era | time a period of time made distinctive by a significant development, feature, event, or personality |
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