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PHS SAT Vocab List 1
LA 2 Honors SAT List 1
Term | Definition |
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Acquiesce | (v)to give in and agree peaceably; to assent, comply |
Chastise | (v)to scold severely or punish; castigate, censure |
Augment | (v)to increase; to make something greater of bigger |
Condone | (v)to overlook or pardon an offense; to excuse |
Amass | (v)to accumulate, collect; to gather, come together |
Disseminate | (v)to disperse or spread everywhere (knowledge or ideas) as if sowing seeds CUR/CURR/COURS=to run, course |
Cursory | (adj)sketchy, not thorough; hasty or superficial |
Precursor | (n)a forerunner that hints at the future; harbinger |
Coalesce | (v)to mix or come together from separate elements |
Concur | (v)to agree, assent; to approve; to coincide |
Digress | (v)to wander off course in speaking or writing |
Laud | (v) to praise, commend, acclaim, extol |
Disperse | (v) to spread all over; to disseminate; also, to fan out scatter in a random way MISS/MIT: to send |
Emit | (v)to voice; to give off, as fumes or anger |
Mission | (n)a definite job or task; the mission establishment itself (usually religious) |
Efface | (v) to erase or obliterate; to wear away (as by time) |