SAT vocab, pg 1 of 6 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| abounding | plentiful |
| abrogate | to nullify, abolish |
| abstemious | sparing, moderate, abstinent |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| acetic | tasting sour, vinegary |
| acrimony | sharpness, harshness or bitterness of nature, speech, or disposition |
| acumen | superior mental acuteness, keen insight |
| adamant | unyielding, harsh, stubborn |
| adulation | servile flattery; excessive devotion |
| affinity | having a natural attraction to |
| altruism | selfless concern for others |
| amenable | tractable, agreeable |
| anachronistic | set in the wrong time; misdated |
| analogous | similar, parallel, corresponding |
| anathema | a curse; a thing accursed |
| annul | to do away with; to deprive of legal force; to nullify |
| anodyne | pain reliever |
| antipathy | aversion; basic or habitual repugnance |
| apiary | a bee house containing a number of hives |
| aplomb | great poise; imperturbable self-possession |
| ascetic | 1. austere; rigorously abstinent2. one who practices extreme self-denial |
| assiduity | diligence, industry |
| assuage | appease, satisfy, mollify |
| asteroid | any of the small planets found between Mars and Jupiter |
| attentuate | weaken, make slender, reduce in force |
| autocrat | domineering person, one who exercises complete power |
| avarice | greed, inordinate desire to gain and hoard wealth |
| azure | sky-blue, the blue of a clear, unclouded sky |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace, insipid, inane |
| belated | tardy, late |
| bellicose | pugnacious, ready to fight |
| benevolent | kind-hearted, benign, charitable |
| bisect | to cut in two, to divide |
| boorish | rude, crude, oafish, rustic, unmannerly |
| bovine | 1. stolid, dull, ox-like2. a cow or ox |
| breadth | the scope or width of something, extent |
| bucolic | pastoral, idyllically rural |
| bumptious | offensively aggressive |
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