SAT Vocab Prep 10
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- precipice
- noun: A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
- angular
- adjective: Sharp-cornered.
- bronchus
- noun: Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.
- aqueduct
- noun: A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
- reactionary
- adjective: Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
- enormity
- noun: Immensity.
- conducive
- adjective: Contributing to an end.
- subterranean
- adjective: Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
- malign
- verb: To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
- transference
- noun: The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
- mockery
- noun: Ridicule.
- testimonial
- noun: A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
- negate
- verb: To deny.
- fusible
- adjective: Capable of being melted by heat.
- rejoin
- verb: To reunite after separation.
- economize
- verb: To spend sparingly.
- meander
- verb: To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
- bauble
- noun: A trinket.
- singe
- verb: To burn slightly or superficially.
- encroach
- verb: To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another.
- distemper
- noun: A disease or malady.
- malady
- noun: Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
- position
- noun: The manner in which a thing is placed.
- collier
- noun: One who works in a coal-mine.
- wizen
- verb: To become or cause to become withered or dry.
- malleable
- adjective: Pliant.
- quartet
- noun: A composition for four voices or four instruments.
- revise
- verb: To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
- landholder
- noun: Landowner.
- trickery
- noun: Artifice.
- surmise
- verb: To conjecture.
- misinterpret
- verb: To misunderstand.
- divulgence
- noun: A divulging.
- sublingual
- adjective: Situated beneath the tongue.
- admittance
- noun: Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
- significance
- noun: Importance.
- generate
- verb: To produce or cause to be.
- peaceable
- adjective: Tranquil.
- eminence
- noun: An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc.
- cereal
- adjective: Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
- epiphany
- noun: Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
- sacrilegious
- adjective: Impious.
- gait
- noun: Carriage of the body in going.
- skeptic
- noun: One who doubts any statements.
- quantity
- noun: Magnitude.
- satire
- noun: The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
- liberalism
- noun: Opposition to conservatism.
- precarious
- adjective: Perilous.
- sibilate
- verb: To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
- garnish
- verb: In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
- gamble
- verb: To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency.
- original
- adjective: Not copied nor produced by imitation.
- deplete
- verb: To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
- extempore
- aderb: Without studied or special preparation.
- aggregate
- noun: The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
- zephyr
- noun: Any soft, gentle wind.
- external
- noun: Anything relating or belonging to the outside.
- herbarium
- noun: A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
- benevolent
- adjective: Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
- neural
- adjective: Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
- denominate
- verb: To give a name or epithet to.
- sequester
- verb: To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
- submarine
- adjective: Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
- acumen
- noun: Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
- seclude
- verb: To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
- witticism
- noun: A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
- amply
- aderb: Sufficiently.
- possessor
- noun: One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
- berth
- noun: A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
- almanac
- noun: A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
- typography
- noun: The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
- luxuriance
- noun: Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
- seignoir
- noun: A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
- foreordination
- noun: Predestination.
- malediction
- noun: The calling down of a curse or curses.
- whereupon
- aderb: After which.
- habitual
- adjective: According to usual practice.
- annihilate
- verb: To destroy absolutely.
- repulsive
- adjective: Grossly offensive.
- patter
- verb: To mumble something over and over.
- elucidate
- verb: To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
- courser
- noun: A fleet and spirited horse.
- visualize
- verb: To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.
- cosmopolitan
- adjective: Common to all the world.
- ardent
- adjective: Burning with passion.
- advocacy
- noun: The act of pleading a cause.
- facsimile
- noun: An exact copy or reproduction.
- imitation
- noun: That which is made as a likeness or copy.
- consignee
- noun: A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
- heedless
- adjective: Thoughtless.
- composure
- noun: Calmness.
- pastoral
- adjective: Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
- abnormal
- adjective: Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
- pentagram
- noun: A figure having five points or lobes.
- indignant
- adjective: Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness.
- shriek
- noun: A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
- perspiration
- noun: Sweat.
- belate
- verb: To delay past the proper hour.
- languor
- noun: Lassitude of body or depression.
- inadequate
- adjective: Insufficient.
- galvanize
- verb: To imbue with life or animation.
- bevel
- noun: Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
- pedestal
- noun: A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
- exterior
- noun: That which is outside.
- minion
- noun: A servile favorite.
- arraign
- verb: To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
- hazard
- noun: Risk.
- finery
- noun: That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
- chateau
- noun: A castle or manor-house.
- perpetuate
- verb: To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
- insinuate
- verb: To imply.
- appraise
- verb: To estimate the money value of.
- socialist
- adjective: One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
- amalgamate
- verb: To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
- defalcate
- verb: To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
- itinerate
- verb: To wander from place to place.
- parity
- noun: Equality, as of condition or rank.
- truthful
- adjective: Veracious.
- mercenary
- adjective: Greedy
- head foremost
- aderb: Precipitately, as in diving.
- insatiable
- adjective: That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
- rapine
- noun: The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
- promoter
- noun: A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
- verily
- aderb: In truth.
- resumption
- noun: The act of taking back, or taking again.
- non-combatant
- noun: One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
- acreage
- noun: Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
- oscillate
- verb: To swing back and forth.
- eschew
- verb: To keep clear of.
- auspice
- noun: favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
- cabinet
- noun: The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
- material
- noun: That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
- predominance
- noun: Ascendancy or preponderance.
- providential
- adjective: Effected by divine guidance.
- upheave
- verb: To raise or lift with effort.
- betrothal
- noun: Engagement to marry.
- bide
- verb: To await.
- prevaricate
- verb: To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
- livelihood
- noun: Means of subsistence.
- mythology
- noun: The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
- biography
- noun: A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
- aphorism
- noun: Proverb.
- bountiful
- adjective: Showing abundance.
- inglorious
- adjective: Shameful.
- resonance
- noun: The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
- tinge
- noun: A faint trace of color.
- matter of fact
- noun: Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality.
- requital
- noun: Adequate return for good or ill.
- forgo
- verb: To deny oneself.
- waif
- noun: A homeless, neglected wanderer.
- accompany
- verb: To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
- ancestry
- noun: One's ancestors collectively.
- felicitate
- verb: To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
- employee
- noun: One who works for wages or a salary.
- coalescence
- noun: The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
- anarchy
- noun: Absence or utter disregard of government.
- diversion
- noun: Pastime.
- procedure
- noun: A manner or method of acting.
- decapitate
- verb: To behead.
- principle
- noun: A general truth or proposition.
- contrite
- adjective: Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
- bristle
- noun: One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
- depth
- noun: Deepness.
- excerpt
- noun: An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
- doleful
- adjective: Melancholy.
- episode
- noun: An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it.
- ghastly
- adjective: Hideous.
- sensitive
- adjective: Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
- vivisection
- noun: The dissection of a living animal.
- craving
- noun: A vehement desire.
- concordance
- noun: Harmony.
- lifelike
- adjective: Realistic.
- extradite
- verb: To surrender the custody of.
- cosmography
- noun: The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
- strait
- noun: A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
- check
- verb: To hold back.
- consumptive
- adjective: Designed for gradual destruction.
- monogram
- noun: A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a
- decasyllable
- noun: A line of ten syllables.
- docket
- noun: The registry of judgments of a court.
- facility
- noun: Ease.
- originate
- verb: To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
- brooch
- noun: An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
- acute
- adjective: Having fine and penetrating discernment.
- rejuvenescence
- noun: A renewal of youth.
- hussar
- noun: A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
- rectify
- verb: To correct.
- incipience
- noun: Beginning.
- gesture
- noun: A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion.
- forfend
- verb: To ward off.
- chiffon
- noun: A very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc.
- arbiter
- noun: One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
- loquacious
- adjective: Talkative.
- centenary
- adjective: Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
- loathe
- verb: To abominate.
- excretion
- noun: The getting rid of waste matter.
- mouthful
- noun: As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
- diffusible
- adjective: Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
- submergence
- noun: The act of submerging.
- heteromorphic
- adjective: Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
- infallible
- adjective: Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
- necessary
- adjective: Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
- reverent
- adjective: Humble.
- incitement
- noun: That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus.
- reiterate
- verb: To say or do again and again.
- visage
- noun: The face, countenence, or look of a person.
- exuberance
- noun: Rich supply.
- guy
- noun: Stay-rope.
- mordacious
- adjective: Biting or giving to biting.
- verbose
- adjective: Wordy.
- recognize
- verb: To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
- breach
- noun: The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
- liner
- noun: A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
- macrocosm
- noun: The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
- emergence
- noun: A coming into view.
- inwardly
- aderb: With no outward manifestation.
- reimburse
- verb: To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
- monsieur
- noun: A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
- narrate
- verb: To tell a story.
- acknowledge
- verb: To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
- illumine
- verb: To make bright or clear.
- oratory
- noun: The art of public speaking.
- Anglo-Saxon
- noun: The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
- seduce
- verb: To entice to surrender chastity.
- faun
- noun: One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
- broadcast
- adjective: Disseminated far and wide.
- aggression
- noun: An unprovoked attack.
- distrainor
- noun: One who subjects a person to distress.
- pantheism
- noun: The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
- boorish
- adjective: Rude.
- exhume
- verb: To dig out of the earth (what has been buried).
- ramose
- adjective: Branch-like.
- corpuscle
- noun: A minute particle of matter.
- theologian
- noun: A professor of divinity.
- recurrent
- adjective: Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
- opportune
- adjective: Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment.
- dejection
- noun: Melancholy.
- lithesome
- adjective: Nimble.
- navel
- noun: The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
- entreaty
- noun: An earnest request.
- evangelical
- adjective: Seeking the conversion of sinners.
- recollect
- verb: To recall the knowledge of.
- prescript
- adjective: Prescribed as a rule or model.
- negotiable
- verb: To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
- pennant
- noun: A small flag.
- antipodes
- noun: A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.
- succeed
- verb: To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
- stultify
- verb: To give an appearance of foolishness to.
- operetta
- noun: A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.