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SAT words book #1
SAT and PSAT practice vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |