Glossary of SAT Top 132 Words
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- abolish
- do away with
- abridge
- lessen, diminish, or curtail
- abstemious
- sparing: an abstemious diet.
- accent
- The relative prominence of a particular syllable of a word by greater intensity or by variation or modulation of pitch or tone
- accolade
- any award, honor, or laudatory notice
- acquiesce
- to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree
- affirmation
- the assertion that something exists or is true
- amass
- to come together; assemble
- ambivalence
- uncertainty or fluctuation
- ambulatory
- adapted for walking, as the limbs of many animals
- ameliorate
- to make or become better, more bearable
- amity
- friendship; peaceful harmony
- anchor
- any similar device for holding fast or checking motion
- antediluvian
- a very old or old-fashioned person or thing
- ascendancy
- domination
- atrophy
- degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse
- bane
- a person or thing that ruins or spoils
- bizarre
- odd
- blunder
- a gross, stupid, or careless mistake
- bungle
- to do clumsily and awkwardly
- burgeon
- to grow or develop quickly; flourish
- capitulate
- to give up resistance
- capricious
- fanciful or witty
- clemency
- an act or deed showing mercy or leniency
- coalesce
- to grow together or into one body
- cohere
- to stick together; be united
- compress
- to press together
- confide
- to have full trust; have faith
- confound
- to perplex or amaze, esp. by a sudden disturbance or surprise
- congeal
- to make or become fixed
- contaminate
- to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean
- converge
- to tend to meet in a point or line; incline toward each other
- convivial
- friendly; agreeable
- copious
- large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful
- corroborate
- to make more certain; confirm
- corrugated
- to wrinkle
- corrupt
- guilty of dishonest practices
- cursory
- hasty
- daunt
- to overcome with fear
- debilitate
- to lessen the ability of
- deplete
- to use up
- discrepancy
- inconsistency
- disentangle
- to untangle
- disputatious
- argumentative
- distend
- to expand by stretching
- drawback
- a hindrance or disadvantage
- efface
- to wipe out
- effervescent
- lively
- enhance
- to raise to a higher degree
- enigmatic
- perplexing
- ephemeral
- lasting a very short time
- equilibrium
- in a state of equality
- euphony
- pleasing effect to the ear
- evacuate
- to leave empty
- evanescent
- vanishing, fleeting
- expedite
- hasten
- expendable
- considered to be not worth keeping or maintaining
- exclude
- to shut or keep out
- facilitate
- to make easier or less difficult
- fallow
- not in use; inactive
- fertile
- bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation
- flourish
- to be in a vigorous state
- fraudulent
- engaging in fraud; deceitful
- fruitful
- beneficial
- garner
- to gather, collect, or hoard
- guile
- Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
- hackneyed
- made commonplace or trite; stale; bana
- hefty
- heavy; weighty
- hideous
- horrible or frightful to the senses
- hilarity
- cheerfulness
- humane
- characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people
- hypocrisy
- saying you are better than what you actually are
- innocuous
- harmless, boring, innocent
- irascible
- very irritable
- jettison
- to discard
- kindle
- to become aroused or animated
- lenient
- agreeably tolerant
- levitate
- to rise or float in the air
- listless
- indifferent
- maladroit
- unskillful
- mitigate
- to make less severe
- mobile
- capable of moving
- munificent
- very generous
- myriad
- a very great or indefinitely great number
- nefarious
- extremely wicked or villainous
- indulgent
- benignly lenient
- iniquitous
- wicked; sinful