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MasterVocab 101-150
SAT words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| augury | omen; sign |
| august | majestic; venerable |
| auspicious | favorable; successful; prosperous |
| austere | severely moral and strict; simple and plain |
| auxiliary | helping; supporting |
| aver | affirm; assert; prove; justify |
| aversion to | strong; dislike |
| avid | eager; greedy |
| avow | admit; declare openly |
| bacchanalian | orgy |
| bait | to persecute |
| baleful | harmful; ominous; causing evil |
| balk | obstacle; purposely to get on the way of |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive |
| barrage | artificial; obstacle built across a river |
| barren (ща) | not good enough; unable to have young ones without value |
| bask | enjoy warmth and light |
| beatify | to bless; make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
| bedizen | to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner |
| belabor | beat hard |
| bellicose | belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
| belligerent | (person, nation) waging war |
| benediction | something that promotes goodness or well-being |
| benefactor | person who has given help |
| benevolence | wish or activity in doing good |
| benign | kind and gentle; mild (climate) |
| bequest | arrangement to give smth at death |
| berate | scold sharply |
| bereft | rob or dispossess of smth (material) |
| bewilder | puzzle; confuse |
| bigot | stubborn; narrow-minded person |
| bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask |
| bilk | to cheat |
| blandishment | flattery coaxing |
| blandness | polite manner; comforting uninteresting |
| blatant | noisy and rough |
| blithe | cheerful; casual; carefree |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| bogus | sham; counterfeit; not genuine |
| boisterous | loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint |
| bolster up | give greatly needed support |
| boorish | crude; offensive; rude |
| brash | hasty; rush; cheeky; saucy |
| brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) |
| brazen | made of brass |
| breach | opening; broken place; breaking |
| brittle | easily broken |
| broach | bring up; announce; begin to talk about |
| brook | to tolerate, endure |
| buoyant | able to float light-hearted |