SAT Vocabulary (Abase - Amusement)
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- abase
- To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
- abbess
- The lady superior of a nunnery.
- abbey
- The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
- abbot
- The superior of a community of monks.
- abdicate
- To give up royal power or the like.
- abdomen
- In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and pelvic floor; the belly.
- abdominal
- Of, pertaining to, or on the abdomen.
- abduction
- The carrying away of a person against his/her will, or illegally.
- abed
- In bed; on a bed.
- aberration
- Deviation from the right, customary, or perscribed course.
- abet
- To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
- abeyance
- A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
- abhorrence
- The act of detesting extremely.
- abhorrent
- Very repugnant; hateful.
- abidance
- An abiding.
- abject
- Sunk to a low condition.
- abjure
- To recant, renounce, or repudiate under oath.
- able-bodied
- Competant for physical service.
- ablution
- A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
- abnegate
- To renounce (a right or privilege).
- abnormal
- Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
- abominable
- Very hateful.
- abominate
- To hate violently.
- abomination
- A very detestable act or practice.
- aboriginal
- Primitive; unsophisticated.
- aborigines
- The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
- aboveboard
- Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
- abrade
- To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
- abrasion
- That which is rubbed off.
- abridge
- To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaving out minor particles.
- abridgment
- A condensed form of a book or play.
- abrogate
- To abolish, repeal.
- abrupt
- Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
- abscess
- Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
- abscission
- The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
- abscond
- To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
- absence
- The fact of not being present or available.
- absent-minded
- Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
- absolution
- Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
- absolve
- To free from sin or its penalties.
- absorb
- To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
- absorption
- The act or process of absorbing.
- abstain
- To keep oneself back from doing or using something.
- abstemious
- Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of food or drink.
- abstinence
- Self denial.
- abstruse
- Dealing with matters diffucult to be understood.
- absurd
- Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
- abundant
- Plentiful.
- abusive
- Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
- abut
- To touch at the end or boundary line.
- abyss
- Bottomless gulf.
- academic
- Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
- academician
- A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
- academy
- Any institution where the higher brances of learning are taught.
- accede
- To agree.
- accelerate
- To move faster.
- accept
- To take when offered.
- access
- A way of approach or entrance; passage.
- accessible
- Approachable.
- accession
- Induction or elvation, as to dignity, office, or government.
- accessory
- A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
- acclaim
- To utter with a shout.
- accomodate
- To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
- accompaniment
- A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
- accompanist
- One who or that which accompanies.
- accompany
- To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
- accomplice
- An associate in wrong-doing.
- accomplish
- To bring to pass.
- accordion
- A portable free-reed musical instrument.
- accost
- To speak to.
- account
- A record or statment of receipts or expenditures, or business transactions.
- accouter
- To dress.
- accredit
- To give credit or authority to.
- accumulate
- To become greater in quantity or number.
- accuracy
- Exactness.
- accurate
- Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
- accursed
- Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
- accusation
- A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
- accusatory
- Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
- accuse
- To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
- accustom
- To become familiar by use.
- acerbity
- Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
- acetate
- A salt of acetic acid.
- acetic
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
- ache
- To be in pain or distress.
- Achillean
- Invulnerable.
- achromatic
- Colorless.
- acid
- A sour substance.
- acidify
- To change into acid.
- acknowlege
- To recognize; to admit the genuiness or validity of.
- acknowledgment
- Recognition.
- acme
- The highest point, or summit.
- acoustic
- Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
- acquaint
- To make familiar or conversant.
- acquiesce
- To comply; submit.
- acquiescence
- Passive consent.
- acquire
- To get as one's own.
- acquisition
- Anything gain, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
- acquit
- To free or clear, as from accusation.
- acquittal
- A discharge from accusation by judicial action,
- acquittance
- Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
- acreage
- Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
- acrid
- Harshly pungent or bitter.
- acrimonious
- Full of bitterness.
- acrimony
- Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
- actionable
- Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
- actuality
- Any reality.
- actuary
- An officer, as of an insurance company, who calcuates and states the risks and premiums.
- actuate
- To move or incite to action.
- acumen
- Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keennees of discrimination.
- acute
- Having fine and penetrating discernment.
- adamant
- Any substance exceeding harshness or impenetrability.
- addendum
- Something added, or to be added.
- addle
- To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
- adduce
- To bring forward or name for consideration.
- adhere
- To stick fast or together.
- adherence
- Attachment.
- adherent
- Clinging or sticking fast.
- adhesion
- The state of being attached or joined.
- adieu
- Goodbye; farewell.
- adjacency
- The state of being adjacent.
- adjacent
- That which is near or bordering upon.
- adjudge
- To award or bestow by formal decision.
- adjunct
- Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
- adjuration
- A vehement appeal.
- adjutant
- Auxiliary.
- administrator
- One who manages affairs of any kind.
- admissible
- Having the right or privilege of entry.
- admittance
- Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
- admonish
- To warn of a fault.
- admonition
- Gentle reproof.
- ado
- Unnecessary activity or ceremony.
- adoration
- Profound devotion.
- adroit
- Having skill in the use of bodily or mental powers.
- adulterant
- An adulterating substance.
- adulterate
- To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
- adumbrate
- To represent beforehand in outline or emblem.
- advent
- The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
- adverse
- Opposing or opposed.
- adversity
- Misfortune.
- advert
- To refer incidentally.
- advertiser
- One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
- advisory
- Not mandatory.
- advocacy
- The act of pleading a cause.
- advocate
- One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
- aerial
- Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
- aeronaut
- One who navigates the air; a balloonist.
- aeronautics
- The act or practice of flying aircraft.
- aerostat
- A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
- aerostatics
- The branch of pneumatics that treats the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
- affable
- Easy to approach.
- affect
- To act upon.
- affectation
- A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
- affiliate
- Some auxiliary person or thing.
- affirmative
- Answering yes; to a question at issue.
- affix
- To fasten.
- affluence
- A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
- affront
- An open insult or indignity.
- afire
- On fire, literally or figuratively.
- afoot
- In progress.
- aforesaid
- Said in a preceding part or before.
- afresh
- Once more, after rest or interval.
- afterthough
- A thought that comes later than its appropriate time or expected time.
- agglomerate
- To pile or heap together.
- aggrandize
- To cause to appear greatly.
- aggravate
- To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
- aggravation
- The fact of being made heavier o more henious, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.
- aggregate
- The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
- aggress
- To make the first attack.
- aggression
- An unprovoked attack.
- aggrieve
- To give grief or sorrow to.
- aghast
- Struck with terror and amazement.
- agile
- Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
- agitate
- To move or exite the feelings or thoughts.
- agrarian
- Pertaining to the land, especially agricultural land.
- aide-de-camp
- An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
- ailment
- Slight sickness.
- airy
- Delicate; ethereal.
- akin
- Of similar nature or qualities.
- alabaster
- A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
- alacrity
- Cheerful willingness.
- albeit
- Even though.
- albino
- A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
- album
- A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
- alchemy
- Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
- alcohol
- A colorless, inflammable, volatile fluid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
- alcoholism
- A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcholic beverages.
- alcove
- A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
- alder
- A shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
- alderman
- A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
- aldermanship
- The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
- alias
- An assumned name.
- alien
- One who owes their allegiance to a foreign government.
- alienable
- Capable of being aliened or alienable, as lands.
- alienate
- To cause to turn away.
- alienation
- Estrangement.
- aliment
- That which nourishes.
- alkali
- Any substance that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
- allay
- To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
- allege
- To assert to be true in a formal manner, as in court.
- allegory
- The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
- alleviate
- To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
- alley
- A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
- alliance
- Any combination or union for some common purpose.
- allot
- To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
- allotment
- Portion.
- allude
- To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
- allusion
- An indirect or incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
- alluvion
- Flood.
- ally
- A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
- almanac
- A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
- aloof
- Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
- altar
- Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
- alter
- To make change in.
- alteration
- Change or modification.
- altercate
- To contend angrily or zealously in words.
- alternate
- One chosen to act in place of another, in case of absence or incapacity of that other.
- alternative
- Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
- altitude
- Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
- alto
- The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
- altruism
- Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
- altruist
- One who advocates and practices altruism.
- amalgam
- An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
- amalgamate
- To mix or blend together in a homogenous body.
- amateur
- Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, not as a profession.
- amatory
- Designed to excite love.
- ambidextrous
- Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
- ambiguous
- Having a double meaning.
- ambitious
- Eagerly desiring and aspiring.
- ambrosial
- Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
- ambulance
- A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick or wounded.
- ambulate
- To walk out.
- ambush
- The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
- ameliorate
- To relieve, as from pain or hardship.
- amenable
- Willing and ready to submit.
- Americanism
- The peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
- amicable
- Done in a friendly spirit.
- amity
- Friendship.
- amourous
- Having the propensity for falling in love.
- amorphous
- Witout definite shape.
- amour
- A love-affair, esspecially one of an illicit nature.
- ampere
- The practical unit of electrical-current strength.
- ampersand
- The character, &; and.
- amphibious
- Living both on land and water.
- amphitheatre
- An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
- amplitude
- Largeness.
- amply
- Sufficiently.
- amputate
- To remove by cutting off, as a limb or some portion of the body.
- amusement
- Diversion.