SAT Vocab Prep 02
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- warlike
- adjective: Belligerent.
- embody
- verb: To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form.
- atheism
- noun: The denial of the existence of God.
- privateer
- noun: A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
- introgression
- noun: Entrance.
- hygiene
- noun: The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
- consternation
- noun: Panic.
- delude
- verb: To mislead the mind or judgment of.
- fuse
- verb: To unite or blend as by melting together.
- pedagogue
- noun: A schoolmaster.
- premise
- noun: A judgment as a conclusion.
- perigee
- noun: The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
- conspire
- verb: To plot.
- hybrid
- adjective: Cross-bred.
- rebut
- verb: To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
- scoundrel
- noun: A man without principle.
- pervasive
- adjective: Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
- indicant
- adjective: That which points out.
- distrain
- verb: To subject a person to distress.
- infamous
- adjective: Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime.
- lodgment
- noun: The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
- narrative
- noun: An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
- diplomatist
- noun: One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
- cholera
- noun: An acute epidemic disease.
- angelic
- adjective: Saintly.
- recreant
- noun: A cowardly or faithless person.
- respite
- noun: Interval of rest.
- emblazon
- verb: To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
- hydraulic
- adjective: Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
- blase
- adjective: Sated with pleasure.
- ultramontane
- adjective: Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
- barcarole
- noun: A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
- receptive
- adjective: Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
- satirize
- verb: To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
- fabulous
- adjective: Incredible.
- herbivorous
- adjective: Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
- rotate
- verb: To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
- metaphysical
- adjective: Philosophical.
- apostle
- noun: Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
- queue
- noun: A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
- commentary
- noun: A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
- desperado
- noun: One without regard for law or life.
- mantel
- noun: The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
- knickknack
- noun: A small article, more for ornament that use.
- distrust
- noun: Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
- domesticity
- noun: Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
- neutral
- adjective: Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
- disquiet
- verb: To deprive of peace or tranquillity.
- reign
- verb: To hold and exercise sovereign power.
- profiteer
- noun: One who profits.
- prosaic
- adjective: Unimaginative.
- contuse
- verb: To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
- conflagration
- noun: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
- erudition
- noun: Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc.
- introspection
- noun: The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
- Spartan
- adjective: Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
- grief
- noun: Sorrow.
- vestment
- noun: Clothing or covering.
- propitious
- adjective: Kindly disposed.
- luxuriant
- adjective: Abundant or superabundant in growth.
- profligacy
- noun: Shameless viciousness.
- intervene
- verb: To interfere for some end.
- dissipate
- verb: To disperse or disappear.
- abdomen
- noun: In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.
- kiloliter
- noun: One thousand liters.
- campaign
- noun: A complete series of connected military operations.
- occupant
- noun: A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
- dissect
- verb: To cut apart or to pieces.
- heredity
- noun: Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
- violoncello
- noun: A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
- diplomacy
- noun: Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
- zeitgeist
- noun: The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
- pension
- noun: A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
- poesy
- noun: Poetry.
- pamphleteer
- verb: To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
- satyr
- noun: A very lascivious person.
- periodicity
- noun: The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
- indigent
- adjective: Poor.
- insulate
- verb: To place in a detached state or situation.
- interlude
- noun: An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
- bereave
- verb: To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
- discreet
- adjective: Judicious.
- pauperism
- noun: Dependence on charity.
- lacteal
- adjective: Milky.
- upbraid
- verb: To reproach as deserving blame.
- defendant
- noun: A person against whom a suit is brought.
- rapid
- adjective: Having great speed.
- scurrilous
- adjective: Grossly indecent or vulgar.
- confer
- verb: To bestow.
- adroit
- adjective: Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
- amorphous
- adjective: Without determinate shape.
- embarrass
- verb: To render flustered or agitated.
- plebeian
- adjective: Common.
- awaken
- verb: To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
- mania
- noun: Insanity.
- inaudible
- adjective: That can not be heard.
- appreciable
- adjective: Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
- wherever
- aderb: In or at whatever place.
- pervade
- verb: To pass or spread through every part.
- clan
- noun: A tribe.
- modish
- adjective: Fashionable.
- aura
- noun: Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
- flux
- noun: A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
- reflexible
- adjective: Capable of being reflected.
- fastidious
- adjective: Hard to please.
- excess
- noun: That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
- protection
- noun: Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
- betimes
- aderb: In good season or time.
- vindicative
- adjective: Revengeful.
- intestacy
- noun: The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
- cantata
- noun: A choral composition.
- affront
- noun: An open insult or indignity.
- senile
- adjective: Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
- entangle
- verb: To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
- monastery
- noun: A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
- temporary
- adjective: Lasting for a short time only.
- divulge
- verb: To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
- revisal
- noun: Revision.
- haggard
- adjective: Worn and gaunt in appearance.
- impetuosity
- noun: Rashness.
- untoward
- adjective: Causing annoyance or hindrance.
- imminence
- noun: Impending evil or danger.
- moralist
- noun: A writer on ethics.
- puerile
- adjective: Childish.
- desiccant
- noun: Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
- affable
- adjective: Easy to approach.
- resurrection
- noun: A return from death to life
- fissure
- noun: A crack or crack-like depression.
- perversity
- noun: Wickedness.
- akin
- adjective: Of similar nature or qualities.
- troublesome
- adjective: Burdensome.
- heptagon
- noun: A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
- breaker
- noun: One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
- transcontinental
- adjective: Extending or passing across a continent.
- devise
- verb: To invent.
- frizz
- verb: To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
- attache
- noun: A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
- adhere
- verb: To stick fast or together.
- taciturn
- adjective: Disinclined to conversation.
- flue
- noun: A smoke-duct in a chimney.
- repine
- verb: To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
- trite
- adjective: Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
- libel
- noun: Defamation.
- disown
- verb: To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
- solace
- noun: Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
- sufferance
- noun: Toleration.
- unnecessary
- adjective: Not essential under the circumstances.
- misrepresent
- verb: To give a wrong impression.
- laborious
- adjective: Toilsome.
- incandescent
- adjective: White or glowing with heat.
- cosmic
- adjective: Pertaining to the universe.
- donee
- noun: A person to whom a donation is made.
- synonym
- noun: A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
- analyst
- noun: One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
- innovate
- verb: To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
- supramundane
- adjective: Supernatural.
- heterodox
- adjective: At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
- bleak
- adjective: Desolate.
- carnage
- noun: Massacre.
- purport
- noun: Intent.
- curtsy
- noun: A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
- perpetrator
- noun: The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
- stationary
- adjective: Not moving.
- indomitable
- adjective: Unconquerable.
- defer
- verb: To delay or put off to some other time.
- complacent
- adjective: Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
- whine
- verb: To utter with complaining tone.
- evince
- verb: To make manifest or evident.
- trimness
- noun: Neatness.
- divertible
- adjective: Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
- tipsy
- adjective: Befuddled with drinks.
- impunity
- noun: Freedom from punishment.
- chasten
- verb: To purify by affliction.
- arrant
- adjective: Notoriously bad.
- dissonance
- noun: Discord.
- dubious
- adjective: Doubtful.
- petulance
- noun: The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
- continuity
- noun: Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
- lascivious
- adjective: Lustful.
- patrician
- adjective: Of senatorial or noble rank.
- tricolor
- adjective: Of three colors.
- inoffensive
- adjective: Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
- inquisition
- noun: A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
- louse
- noun: A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
- intensive
- adjective: Adding emphasis or force.
- inception
- noun: The beginning.
- refragable
- adjective: Capable of being refuted.
- panacea
- noun: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
- aperture
- noun: Hole.
- fictitious
- adjective: Created or formed by the imagination.
- pious
- adjective: Religious.
- ambiguous
- adjective: Having a double meaning.
- carnal
- adjective: Sensual.
- adjacency
- noun: The state of being adjacent.
- selective
- adjective: Having the power of choice.
- afterthought
- noun: A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
- mimic
- verb: To imitate the speech or actions of.
- vagabond
- noun: A wanderer.
- radiate
- verb: To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
- diplomatic
- adjective: Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
- benevolence
- noun: Any act of kindness or well-doing.
- nomination
- noun: The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
- reck
- verb: To have a care or thought for.
- globose
- adjective: Spherical.
- imaginable
- adjective: That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
- faulty
- adjective: Imperfect.
- tempter
- noun: An allurer or enticer to evil.
- impetus
- noun: Any impulse or incentive.
- prate
- verb: To talk about vainly or foolishly.
- preoccupation
- noun: The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
- leeward
- noun: That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
- demagogue
- noun: An unprincipled politician.
- arrival
- noun: A coming to stopping-place or destination.
- grievance
- noun: That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong.
- tempt
- verb: To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
- penetrable
- adjective: That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
- promiscuous
- adjective: Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
- prejudice
- noun: A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
- technic
- adjective: Technical.
- mobocracy
- noun: Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
- spectator
- noun: One who beholds or looks on.
- competitor
- noun: A rival.
- meditation
- noun: The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
- fluctuate
- verb: To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
- immerse
- verb: To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid.
- humane
- adjective: Compassionate.
- enrage
- verb: To infuriate.
- asexual
- adjective: Having no distinct sexual organs.
- hypocrisy
- noun: Extreme insincerity.
- venereal
- adjective: Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
- autobiography
- noun: The story of one's life written by himself.
- exhaustible
- adjective: Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
- successful
- adjective: Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
- comical
- adjective: Funny.
- accession
- noun: Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
- sepulcher
- noun: A burial-place.
- evidential
- adjective: Indicative.
- ubiquitous
- adjective: Being present everywhere.
- excruciate
- verb: To inflict severe pain or agony upon.
- expediency
- noun: Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
- jurisprudence
- noun: The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
- superintendent
- noun: One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
- quarterly
- adjective: Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
- dissuasion
- noun: The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
- sardonic
- adjective: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
- posterior
- noun: The hinder part.
- vitiate
- verb: To contaminate.
- irradiance
- noun: Luster.