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SSAT Vocab 1 of 6
Benny's SSAT Words A-E (1)
| WORD | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| abdicate | to give up power or position; to fail to fulfill |
| abduct | to kidnap |
| abhor | to hate; to detest |
| absurd | unreasonable; ridiculous |
| abyss | bottomless gulf; something too deep for measurement |
| accelerate | to increase in speed |
| acclaim | enthusiastic applause or approval |
| acute | very sharp; severe |
| adage | wise; old saying |
| adept | highly skilled; an expert |
| adjourn | to suspend [a meeting] for a period of time |
| adjunct | a non-essential supplement; something additional |
| admonish | to reprove; to warn |
| adorn | to decorate |
| advantageous | profitable; helpful |
| adversary | an enemy; an opponent; a foe |
| adverse | unfavorable; bringing harm |
| affable | friendly; easy-going |
| affectation | artificial behavior |
| aforementioned | said or written before |
| adhere | to stick to |
| aghast | feeling great horror or dismay |
| agility | quickness & ease of movement |
| agitate | to stir or shake up |
| aimless | having no purpose |
| akin | related; similar |
| alleviate | to relieve; to ease a pain |
| allege | to declare without proof |
| allure | to entice; to attract |
| aloof | detached; indifferent; distant |
| altruism | unselfishness; generosity |
| amateur | not professional; done for pleasure; unskillful |
| amend | to change; alter slightly |
| amorous | strongly attracted to love; expressing love |
| amorphous | having no determined shape or form |
| amphibian | living in both water and on land |
| angular | characterized by sharp angles |
| animosity | hatred; hostility |
| annihilate | to destroy entirely |
| antidote | substance that counteracts a poison |
| anxiety | an emotional state of fear and uncertainty |
| aperture | an opening; a hole |
| apt | likely; relevant |
| aqueous | like water; related to water; formed by water |
| ardent | passionate |
| arid | extremely dry; very boring |
| aroma | a pleasant odor |
| arouse | to awaken |
| articulate | able to express oneself coherently |
| artifice | skill or ingenuity |
| ascertain | to find out with certainty |
| aspire | to hope; to have ambition |
| assail | to attack violently |
| assess | to judge; to determine amount or value |
| astound | to astonish greatly |
| astute | shrewd; observant; clever |
| atrocious | very wicked; very bad |
| audacious | bold; daring; fearless |
| authoritative | having authority; commanding |
| banal | commonplace & predictable; trite |
| banish | to exile; to drive away |
| barrage | a curtain of artillery; any prolonged attack |
| barrier | an obstruction; anything that hinders or blocks |
| barter | to exchange goods or property |
| beguile | to deceive |
| behold | to look at; to observe |
| belligerent | aggressive |
| benefactor | a donor |
| beneficial | helpful |
| benevolent | generous; charitable; well-meaning |
| bewildered | to confuse hopelessly; to befuddle |
| biased | prejudiced; influenced |
| bile | the bitter, greenish fluid secreted by the liver |
| bind | to tie or fasten |
| bizarre | very odd or unusual |
| bliss | great happiness; spiritual joy |
| boisterous | cheerfully noisy or rough |
| botanist | scientist who studies plants |
| bounty | generosity; a generous gift |
| brash | hasty & reckless; insolent; impudent |
| bravado | pretend courage; feigned confidence |
| brevity | conciseness; briefness |
| brig | a two masted ship; a jail on a ship |
| brusque | abrupt |
| burnish | to polish; to make smooth & shiny |
| cache | a place where food or treasure is hidden |
| cajole | to persuade; to coax |
| camouflage | to disguise; to conceal from the enemy |
| candid | honest; truthful |
| candor | frankness; sincerity |
| canine | relating to dogs; like a dog |
| cantankerous | bad-tempered; quarrelsome; grumpy |
| capricious | fickle; impulsive; unpredictable |
| cascade | a small, steep waterfall |
| catastrophe | any sudden great disaster |
| celestial | of the heavens or the sky |
| censor | to prohibit objectionable material; a person with the authority to prohibit material |
| chasm | a deep crack in the earth's surface; any large break or gap |
| choleric | easily angered |
| choreographer | one who devises dances or ballets |
| chronic | lasting a long time |
| circulate | to pass around; move from place to place |
| circumscribe | to draw a line around; to encircle; to limit narrowly |
| classify | to organize in groups or categories |
| coalesce | to come together; to unite |
| collision | a crash; a colliding |
| communicative | giving or exchanging information or messages |
| compassion | deep sympathy; pity |
| compelling | demanding of attention |
| competent | capable; fit for the task |
| conceal | to hide; to keep secret |
| concise | condensed; brief, to the point |
| condone | to overlook; to forgive; to allow |
| confidential | secret |
| conform | to follow rules; to obey |
| congenial | friendly; agreeable |
| congregate | to gather together |
| conserve | to save; prevent wastage |
| constrict | to make smaller or narrower by squeezing |
| contemplate | to think about intently |
| contend | to compete; to struggle; to argue |
| contentious | quarrelsome; argumentative |
| contiguous | in contact; touching; near; next |
| convene | to meet; to come together |
| conventional | traditional |
| copious | plentiful; large in quantity |
| corpulence | fatness; obesity |
| counsel | a lawyer or group of lawyers; mutual exchange of ideas |
| countenance | to favor; to support; a person's face or expressions |
| couplet | two successive rhyming lines of poetry |
| courier | a messenger |
| critic | one who judges |
| cue | a signal; a hint |
| curvature | a curving; being curved |
| dawdle | to waste time; to loiter |
| deadlock | a standstill resulting from equal and opposed forces; an unbreakable tie |
| dearth | scarcity; insufficiency |
| debilitate | to weaken; to enfeeble |
| debris | bits of rubbish and stone |
| debunk | to discredit |
| decade | a period of ten years |
| decay | to spoil; to go bad; to rot |
| deceit | a lie |
| declaim | to speak in a dramatic way |
| decree | an official order or decision |
| deficient | lacking; incomplete; not enough |
| dehydrate | to remove water from |
| deject | to dishearten; to depress |
| delude | to mislead; to deceive |
| demote | to reduce to a lower rank |
| deluge | a great flood |
| deplore | to express strong disapproval |
| desolate | lifeless; empty |
| despicable | deserving scorn; contemptible |
| despondent | dejected; discouraged |
| destitute | very poor |
| devastate | to lay waste; to destroy; to overwhelm |
| devotee | one strongly devoted to something |
| devout | very religious |
| dexterous | skilled in mind or body |
| diminish | to make smaller |
| dingy | not clean or bright; grimy |
| diplomatic | tactful; related to diplomacy |
| discerning | able to see clearly |
| disclaim | to give up any claim; to repudiate |
| discord | conflict; argument; opposite of harmony |
| discursive | rambling; getting off topic |
| dismal | causing gloom or misery |
| disputatious | found of arguing |
| disseminate | to scatter; to spread |
| divert | to turn aside (from a course) |
| doff | to take off (one's hat) |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| dogmatic | characterized by assertion of unproved principles; opinionated; stubborn |
| doze | to sleep lightly; to nap |
| dungeon | dark underground prison cell |
| earmark | to set aside for special purpose; to identify |
| ebullient | zestfully enthusiastic; boiling or seeming to boil |
| eccentric | unconventional & strange |
| ecstatic | joyful |
| eddy | a wind or river current; a mini whirlpool |
| effect | something brought about by a cause |
| egress | exit |
| elusive | hard to capture or understand |
| embellish | to add details to a statement; to adorn |
| eminent | towering or standing out; prominent |
| emit | to send out |
| emulate | to imitate; to copy; to model oneself after |
| enact | to pass (a bill or law); to represent in a play |
| encompass | to surround; to contain; to include |
| endorse | to show approval |
| enigma | a puzzle; a mystery; a riddle |
| ensnare | to catch as in a trap |
| entice | to tempt |
| entourage | a group of associates or attendants |
| epoch | a period of time in history |
| era | a period of time with a special characteristic |
| erode | to wear away |
| errant | straying; mistaken |
| erudite | learned; scholarly |
| essential | necessary |
| etiquette | acceptable manners in society |
| evacuate | to leave empty |
| exhilarating | exciting; full of high spirits |
| exotic | foreign; strangely beautiful |
| expanse | wide open area |
| expansive | broad and large |
| expunge | to eliminate; to erase |
| extraction | the process of taking out by effort; a persons origin or descent |
| extricate | to free |
| extroverted | Turned outward; interested in others rather than oneself |
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