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SAT Words 32
of 1000
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| expunge | (v.) to obliterate, eradicate (Fearful of an IRS investigation, Paul tried to _____ all incriminating evidence from his tax files.) |
| expurgate | (v.) to remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book (The history editors _____d from the text all disparaging and inflammatory comments about the Republican Party.) |
| extant | (adj.) existing, not destroyed or lost (My mother’s _____ love letters to my father are in the attic trunk.) |
| extol | (v.) to praise, revere (Violet _____d the virtues of a vegetarian diet to her meat-loving brother.) |
| extraneous | (adj.) irrelevant, extra, not necessary (Personal political ambitions should always remain _____ to legislative policy, but, unfortunately, they rarely are.) |
| extricate | (v.) to disentangle (Instead of trying to mediate between my brother and sister, I _____d myself from the family tension entirely and left the house for the day.) |
| exult | (v.) to rejoice (When she found out she won the literature prize, Mary _____d by dancing and singing through the school’s halls.) |
| fabricate | (v.) to make up, invent (When I arrived an hour late to class, I _____d some excuse about my car breaking down on the way to school.) |
| façade | 1. (n.) the wall of a building (Meet me in front of the museum’s main _____.) 2. (n.) a deceptive appearance or attitude (Despite my smiling _____, I am feeling melancholy.) |
| facile | 1. (adj.) easy, requiring little effort (The game is so _____ that a 4-year-old can master it.) 2. (adj.) superficial, achieved with little thought/care, insincere (The shop was in such shambles that any solution seemed _____ and nothing could help it.) |
| fallacious | (adj.) incorrect, misleading (Emily offered me cigarettes on the _____ assumption that I smoked.) |
| fastidious | (adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards (Mark is so _____ that he is never able to finish a project because it always seems imperfect to him.) |
| fathom | (v.) to understand, comprehend (I cannot _____ why you like that crabby and mean-spirited neighbor of ours.) |
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