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SAT Words 29
of 1000
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| embezzle | (v.) to steal money by falsifying records (The accountant was fired for _____ing $10,000 of the company’s funds.) |
| emend | (v.) to correct or revise a written text (If my sentence is incorrect, the editor will _____ what I have written.) |
| eminent | 1. (adj.) distinguished, prominent, famous (Mr. Phillips is such an _____ scholar that every professor on campus has come to hear him lecture.) 2. (adj.) conspicuous (There is an _____ stain on that shirt.) |
| emollient | (adj.) soothing (This _____ cream makes my skin very smooth.) |
| emote | (v.) to express emotion (The director told the actor he had to _____, or else the audience would have no idea what his character was going through.) |
| empathy | (n.) sensitivity to another’s feelings as if they were one’s own (I feel such _____ for my sister when she’s in pain that I cry too.) |
| empirical | 1. (adj.) based on observation or experience (Jan gathered _____ data on tulips by studying tulips in her yard.) 2. (adj.) capable of being proved or disproved by experiment (All cats hate getting wet is an _____ statement I can test by bathing my cat.) |
| emulate | (v.) to imitate (I idolize Britney Spears so much that I _____ everything she does: I wear her outfits, sing along to her songs, and date a boy named Justin.) |
| enamor | (v.) to fill with love, fascinate, usually used in passive form followed by “of” or “with” (I grew _____d of that boy when he quoted my favorite love poem.) |
| encore | (n.) the audience’s demand for a repeat performance; also the artist’s performance in response to that demand (At the end of the concert, all the fans yelled, “_____! _____!” but the band did not come out to play again.) |
| encumber | (v.) to weigh down, burden (At the airport, my friend was _____d by her luggage, so I offered to carry two of her bags.) |
| enervate | (v.) to weaken, exhaust (Writing these sentences _____s me so much that I will have to take a nap after I finish.) |
| enfranchise | (v.) to grant the vote to (The Nineteenth Amendment _____ women.) |
| engender | (v.) to bring about, create, generate (During the Olympics, the victories of U.S. athletes _____ a patriotic spirit among Americans.) |
| enigmatic | (adj.) mystifying, cryptic (That man wearing the dark suit and dark glasses is so _____ that no one even knows his name.) |
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