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SAT words book #1
SAT and PSAT practice vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Abase | lower, humiliate |
Abash | to embarass |
Abate | to lessen |
Abominate | to loathe, hate |
abstruse | profound, difficult to understand |
accentuate | to stress, emphasize |
acclivity | sharp incline of a hill |
accolade | award, honor |
accost | to approach and speak to |
adulate | to praise and flatter so much it's sickening |
adroit | skillful |
adulterate | to make impure |
adumbrate | to foreshadow by disclosing only partially |
adverse | hostile, opposed, unfavorable |
advocate | to urge, recommend |
aesthetic | artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful |
affected | fake |
affinity | attraction |
affluent | rich |
affray | a public brawl |
agape | open-mouthed |
aghast | horrified |
agile | able to move in a quick and easy fashion |
alacrity | cheerful promptness |
alias | a false name |
alimentary | supplying nourishment |
allay | to soothe, to make more bearable |
alleged | stated without proof |
alleviate | to make more bearable |
allude | to refer indirectly |
allusion | a reference to something |
altercation | a violent dispute |
amass | to collect, to get a bunch of |
ambulatory | able to walk |
ameliorate | to improve a bad situation |
amity | peaceful realations, friendships |
amnesia | loss of memory |
amorphous | shapeless |
amok | freaked out, and violently pissed off |
anthropoid | humanlike |
antipathy | hatred, aversion, dislike |