SAT Hot Prospects & High Frequency Vocab 1
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| abridge | v. condense or shorten | Because the publishers felt the public wanted a shorter version of War and Peace, they proceeded to abridge the novel.
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| abstemious | adj. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate | Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.
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| abstract | adj. theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational | To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he had never missed a meal.
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| abstruse | adj. obscure; profound; difficult to understand | Baffled by the abstruse philosophical texts assigned in class, Dave asked Lexy to explain Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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| accessible | adj. easy to approach; obtainable | We asked our guide whether the ruins were accessible on foot.
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| acclaim | v. applaud; anounce with great approval. (Also a noun.) | The NBC sportscasters acclaimed every American victory in the Olympics and decried every American defeat.
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| accolade | n. award of merit | In Hollywood, an "Oscar" is the highest accolade.
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| acknowledge | v. recognize, admit | Although Iris acknowledged that the Beatles' tunes sounded pretty dated nowadays, she still preferred them to the hip-hop songs her brothers played.
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| acquiesce | v. assent, agree without protesting | Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made.
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| acrid | adj. sharp, bitterly pungent | The acrid odor of burnt gunpowder filled the room after the pistol had been fired.
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| acrimonious | adj. bitter in words or manner | The candidate attacked his opponent in highly acrimonious terms.
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| adulation | n. flattery; admiration | The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes men.
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| adversary | n. opponent | The young wrestler struggled to defeat his adversary.
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| adversity | n. unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event | According to the humorist, Mark Twain, anyone can easily learn to endure adversity, as long as it is another man's.
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| advocate | v. urge, plead for (also a noun) | The abolitionists advocated freedom for the slaves.
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| aesthetic | adj. artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful | The beauty of Tiffany's stained glass appealed to Esther's aesthetic sense.
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| affable | adj. easily approachable; warmly friendly | Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.
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| affirmation | n. positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take oath | Despite Tom's affirmations of innocence, Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.
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| aggregate | v. gather, accumulate | Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
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| alleviate | v. relieve | This should alleviate the pain; if it does not we shall have to use stronger drugs.
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| aloof | adj. apart; reserved | Shy by nature, she remained aloof while all the rest conversed.
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| altruistic | adj. unselfishly generous; concerned for others | In providing tutorial assistance and college scholarships for hundreds of economically disadvantaged youths, Eugene Lang performed a truly altruistic deed.
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| ambiguous | adj. unclear or doubtful in meaning | His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take
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| ambivalence | n. the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes | Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating themn the next, she was confused by the ambivalene of her feelings.
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| abate | v. subside; decrease, lessen | Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.
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