1000 Most Common Vocabulary Words on the SAT
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| abate | (v) to reduce, lessen | The rain poured down for a while, then abated.
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| abdicate | (v) to give up a position, usually one of leadership | When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.
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| abduct | (v) to kidnap, take by force | The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.
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| aberration | (n) something that differs from the norm |
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| abet | (v) to aid, help, encourage | The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.
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| abhor | (v) to hate, detest | Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.
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| abide | (v) to put up with; (v) to remain | Though he did not agree with the decision, chuck decided to abide by it. Despite the beating they've taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains ABIDE.
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| abject | (adj) wretched, pitiful | After losing her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.
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| abjure | (v) to reject, renounce | To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.
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| abnegation | (n) denial of comfort to oneself | The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.
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| abort | (v) to give up on a half-finished project or effort | After they ran out of food, the men attempting to jump rope around the world had to abort and go home.
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| abridge | (v) to cut down, shorten | The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it.
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| abridged | (adj) shortened | Moby Dick is such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal books.
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| abrogate | (v) to abolish, usually by authority | The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.
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| abscond | (v) to sneak away and hide | In the confusion, the super spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.
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| absolution | (n) release or forgiveness from blame, guilt, sin | Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.
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| abstain | (v) to freely choose not to commit an action | Everyone demanded that Angus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.
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| abstruse | (adj) hard to comprehend | Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject abstruse.
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| accede | (v) to agree, sometimes reluctantly | When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to their request.
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| accentuate | (v) to stress, highlight | Psychologists agree that those people who are happiest accentuate the positive in life.
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| accessible | (adj) obtainable, reachable | After studying and getting a great score on the SAT, Marlena happily realized that her goal of getting into an Ivy League college was accessible.
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| acclaim | (n) high praise | Greg's excellent poem on the acclaim of his friends.
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| accolade | (n) high praise, special distinction | Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the Nobel Prize.
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| accommodating | (adj) helpful, obliging, polite (usually by making adjustments or adapting) | Although the apartment was not big enough for three people, Ann, Sue and Beth were all friends and were accommodating to each other.
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| accord | (n) an agreement | After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came to a mutually-beneficial accord about fishing rights off the coast of Greenland.
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| abase | (v) to humiliate, degrade | After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.
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