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SAT VOCAB "A" PART 1

Sat vocabulary FROM PRINCETON REVIEW'S WORD SMART

TermDefinition
ABASH EMBARRASS
ABATE SUBSIDE OR REDUCE
ABDICATE STEP DOWN FROM POWER
ABERRATION DEVIATION, SOMETHING NOT TYPICAL
ABHOR DETEST
ABJECT HOPELESS
ABNEGATE RENOUNCE OR TO REJECT
ABORTIVE UNSUCCESSFUL, INCOMPLETE
ABRIDGE TO SHORTEN OR CONDENSE
ABSOLUTE TOTAL
ABSOLVE FORGIVE, FREE FROM BLAME
ABSTINENT VOLUNTARILY AVOIDING
ABSTRACT THEORETICAL
ABSTRUSE HARD TO UNDERSTAND, COMPLICATED
ABYSMAL WRETCHED, EXTREMELY HOPELESS; BOTTOMLESS
ACCOLADE AWARD
ACCOST TO APPROACH SOMEONE
ACERBIC BITTER,SOUR,SEVERE
ACQUIESCE TO COMPLY
ACRID HARSH;LIKE ACID (USUALLY PERTAINING TO TASTES AND SMELLS)
ACRIMONIOUS BITTER,NASTY
ACUMEN MENTAL SHARPNESS,SHREWDNESS
ACUTE SHARP
ADULATION FLATTERY
ADAMANT UNYIELDING,STUBBORN
ADDRESS TO SPEAK TO
ADHERENT FOLLOWER
ADMONISH TO SCOLD GENTLY; WARN
ADROIT SKILLFUL;CLEVER
DEXTEROUS SKILLFUL
GAUCHE SOCIALLY AWKWARD
ADULTERATE CONTAMINATE
ADVERSE UNFAVORABLE
AVERSE OPPOSED TO
AESTHETIC ARTISTIC; RELATING TO BEAUTY
AFFABLE FRIENDLY
AFFECTATION UNNATURAL BEHAVIOR TO IMPRESS
AFFINITY SYMPATHY, ATTRACTION, SIMILARITY, KINSHIP
AFFLUENT RICH, WEALTHY,PROSPEROUS (SUCCESSFUL, FLOURISHING)
AGENDA PROGRAM, PLAN
AGRARIAN RELATING TO LAND
AGGREGATE SUM TOTAL, COLLECTION OF SEPARATE THINGS TOGETHER
CONGREGATE GET TOGETHER, GATHER IN A CROWD/MASS
SEGREGATE KEEP APART
INTEGRATE UNITE
AGNOSTIC SOMEONE UNCONVINCED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
ALACRITY CHEERFUL EAGERNESS
ALLEGE CLAIM/ASSERT SOMETHING USUALLY WITHOUT PROOF
ALLEVIATE RELIEVE
ALLOCATE DISTRIBUTE, TO ASSIGN
ALLOY COMBINATION OF METALS
ALLUSION INDIRECT REFERENCE, A HINT
ALOOF NOT INVOLVED, STANDOFFISH
ALTRUISM GENEROSITY
PHILANTHROPY GENEROSITY, SELFLESSNESS
AMBIENCE ATMOSPHERE, MOOD, FEELING
AMBIGUOUS CONFUSING
AMBIVALENT UNDECIDED
AMELIORATE TO MAKE BETTER
AMENABLE OBEDIENT
AMENITY PLEASANTNESS
AMIABLE FRIENDLY, EASY TO TALK TO
AMICABLE NOT HOSTILE, POLITELY FRIENDLY
AMNESTY OFFICIAL PARDON
AMORAL WITHOUT MORAL FEELING, LACK ING A SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG, NEITHER GOOD OR BAD, NEITHER MORAL OR IMMORAL
AMOROUS FEELING LOVING
AMORPHOUS SHAPELESS
ANACHRONISM INCONGRUITY, SOMETHING OUT OF PLACE FOR THE CURRENT TIME
ANALOGY COMPARISION
ANARCHY LAWLESSNESS
MONARCHY GOVERNMENT BY KING OR QUEEN
ANECDOTE SHORT AMUSING ACCOUNT
ANGUISH AGONIZING MENTAL OR PHYSICAL PAIN
ANIMOSITY RESENTMENT, STRONG HOSTILITY, ILL WILL
ANOMALY A DEVIATION, ABERRATION, AN IRREGULARITY
ANTECEDENT WHAT WENT BEFORE
ANTIPATHY FIRM DISLIKE
ANTITHESIS DIRECT OPPOSITE
APARTHEID RACIAL OPPRESSION
APATHY LACK OF INTEREST
APHORISM PROVERB, BRIEF WITTY STATEMENT
APOCALYPSE PROPHETIC REVELATION CONCERNING THE END OF THE WORLD
APOCRYPHAL SPURIOUS, DOUBTFUL STORY/STATEMENT WIDELY THOUGHT AS TRUE
APOTHEOSIS PERFECT EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING
APPEASE SOOTHE
APPRECIATE TO INCREASE IN VALUE
DEPRECIATE TO DECREASE IN VALUE
APPREHENSIVE WORRIED, ANXIOUS
MISAPPREHENSION MISUNDERSTANDING
APPROBATION APPROVAL OR PRAISE
APPROPRIATE TAKE WITHOUT PERMISSION
MISAPPROPRIATE MISUSE PUBLIC MONEY
EXPROPRIATE TAKE PROPERTY OFFICIALLY
APTITUDE NATURAL LEARNING ABILITY
ARBITER ONE WHO DECIDES, JUDGE
ARBITRATE TO WEIGH IN OPPOSING VIEWS
ARBITRARY RANDOM
ARCANE MYSTERIOUS, KNOWN ONLY TO A FEW
ARCHAIC ANCIENT, OLD, OUTDATED
ARCHETYPE ORIGINAL MODEL OR PATTERN
ARDENT PASSIONATE
ARDUOUS HARD, DIFFICULT
ARISTOCRATIC OF NOBLE BIRTH
ARTFUL CRAFTY
ARTIFICE CLEVER TRICK, CUNNING
ASCENDANCY SUPREMACY, DOMINATION
ASCETIC HERMIT-LIKE, SELF-DENIAL
ASSIDUOUS HARDWORKING, BUSY, QUITE DILIGENT
ASSIMILATE TO ABSORB, LEARN THOROUGHLY
ASSUAGE TO SOOTHE, RELIEVE, TO EASE THE PAIN OF
ASTUTE SHREWD, KEEN IN JUDGEMENT
ATTRITION GRADUAL WEARING AWAY
AUDACITY BOLDNESS
AUGMENT TO MAKE BIGGER, INCREASE AND ADD TO
AUSPICIOUS FAVORABLE, PROMISING
AUSTERE STERN, FORBIDDING, WITHOUT EXCESS
AUTOCRATIC EXTREMELY BOSSY, RULING WITH ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY
AUTONOMOUS ACTING INDEPENDENTLY
AVARICE GREED, EXCESSIVE LOVE OF RICHES
AVOW TO DECLARE BOLDLY, TO ADMIT
AVUNCULAR LIKE A NICE UNCLE
AWRY OFF COURSE, TWISTED TO ONE SIDE
AXIOM A WIDELY ACCEPTED SAYING, A SELF EVIDENT RULE/TRUTH
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