SAT Vocab Prep 03
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- epic
- noun: A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
- supernumerary
- adjective: Superfluous.
- kingship
- noun: Royal state.
- negation
- noun: The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
- battalion
- noun: A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
- essence
- noun: That which makes a thing to be what it is.
- solar
- adjective: Pertaining to the sun.
- preservation
- noun: Conservation.
- constable
- noun: An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
- formula
- noun: Fixed rule or set form.
- rigorous
- adjective: Uncompromising.
- commotion
- noun: A disturbance or violent agitation.
- proceed
- verb: To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
- morbid
- adjective: Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
- courtesy
- noun: Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
- proclamation
- noun: Any announcement made in a public manner.
- protrude
- verb: To push out or thrust forth.
- desert
- verb: To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- sordid
- adjective: Of degraded character or nature.
- detract
- verb: To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
- midsummer
- noun: The middle of the summer.
- epigram
- noun: A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
- ossify
- verb: to convert into bone.
- hackney
- verb: To make stale or trite by repetition.
- salient
- adjective: Standing out prominently.
- nit
- noun: The egg of a louse or some other insect.
- improvident
- adjective: Lacking foresight or thrift.
- aboveboard
- aderb: Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
- supple
- adjective: Easily bent.
- codicil
- noun: A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
- antiquary
- noun: One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
- monetary
- adjective: Financial.
- lactation
- noun: The secretion of milk.
- transmute
- verb: To change in nature, substance, or form.
- abhorrent
- adjective: Very repugnant; hateful.
- felicity
- noun: A state of well-founded happiness.
- inhospitable
- adjective: Not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously.
- nonpareil
- noun: One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
- sympathetic
- adjective: Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
- lackadaisical
- adjective: Listless.
- protoplasm
- noun: The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
- precede
- verb: To happen first.
- paly
- adjective: Lacking color or brilliancy.
- impoverish
- verb: To make indigent or poor.
- inefficient
- adjective: Not accomplishing an intended purpose.
- malcontent
- noun: One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
- variable
- adjective: Having a tendency to change.
- defame
- verb: To slander.
- loam
- noun: A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
- ennoble
- verb: To dignify.
- alliance
- noun: Any combination or union for some common purpose.
- anonymous
- adjective: Of unknown authorship.
- impair
- verb: To cause to become less or worse.
- temporal
- adjective: Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
- disbeliever
- noun: One who refuses to believe.
- sequence
- noun: The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
- hypnotize
- verb: To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
- rotund
- adjective: Round from fullness or plumpness.
- enfeeble
- verb: To debilitate.
- vogue
- noun: The prevalent way or fashion.
- indolent
- adjective: Habitually inactive or idle.
- accusatory
- adjective: Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
- commemorate
- verb: To serve as a remembrance of.
- manlike
- adjective: Like a man.
- dogmatic
- adjective: Making statements without argument or evidence.
- landlord
- noun: A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
- embezzle
- verb: To misappropriate secretly.
- hardihood
- noun: Foolish daring.
- venous
- adjective: Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
- missal
- noun: The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
- evasion
- noun: Escape.
- mystic
- noun: One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
- burgher
- noun: An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
- lenient
- adjective: Not harsh.
- alkali
- noun: Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.
- metaphysics
- noun: The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
- hesitant
- adjective: Vacillating.
- prelacy
- noun: A system of church government.
- necromancer
- noun: One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
- conversant
- adjective: Thoroughly informed.
- subsist
- verb: To be maintained or sustained.
- intricacy
- noun: Perplexity.
- faction
- noun: A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
- palette
- noun: A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
- tolerate
- verb: To passively permit or put up with.
- degenerate
- verb: To become worse or inferior.
- disinterested
- adjective: Impartial.
- baize
- noun: A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
- bumper
- noun: A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
- hale
- adjective: Of sound and vigorous health.
- inconsequential
- adjective: Valueless.
- allege
- verb: To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
- monosyllable
- noun: A word of one syllable.
- nostrum
- noun: Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
- alacrity
- noun: Cheerful willingness.
- terminal
- adjective: Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
- appall
- verb: To fill with dismay or horror.
- prohibitory
- adjective: Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- refusal
- noun: Denial of what is asked.
- liniment
- noun: A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
- hawthorn
- noun: A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
- confectionery
- noun: The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
- postscript
- noun: Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
- leonine
- adjective: Like a lion.
- impotent
- adjective: Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
- accumulate
- verb: To become greater in quantity or number.
- pathos
- noun: The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
- forbearance
- noun: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
- ill-natured
- adjective: Surly.
- transcript
- noun: A copy made directly from an original.
- reckless
- adjective: Foolishly headless of danger.
- retrograde
- verb: To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
- trammel
- noun: An impediment.
- psychotherapy
- noun: The treatment of mental disease.
- esthetic
- adjective: Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts.
- mane
- noun: The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
- contemptuous
- adjective: Disdainful.
- martial
- adjective: Pertaining to war or military operations.
- suggestible
- adjective: That can be suggested.
- latent
- adjective: Dormant.
- itinerant
- adjective: Wandering.
- illuminate
- verb: To supply with light.
- deflect
- verb: To cause to turn aside or downward.
- Antichrist
- noun: Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
- absorption
- noun: The act or process of absorbing.
- dialogue
- noun: A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
- intellect
- noun: The faculty of perception or thought.
- peter
- verb: To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
- pincers
- noun: An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
- punitive
- adjective: Pertaining to punishment.
- municipal
- adjective: Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
- dearth
- noun: Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
- expansion
- noun: Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
- neurology
- noun: The science of the nervous system.
- plea
- noun: An argument to obtain some desired action.
- separate
- verb: To take apart.
- insecure
- adjective: Not assured of safety.
- disrupt
- verb: To burst or break asunder.
- proportionate
- adjective: Being in proportion.
- benediction
- noun: a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
- interact
- verb: To act reciprocally.
- imperious
- adjective: Insisting on obedience.
- monotone
- noun: The sameness or monotony of utterance.
- thermal
- adjective: Of or pertaining to heat.
- animadvert
- verb: To pass criticism or censure.
- juggle
- verb: To play tricks of sleight of hand.
- obesity
- noun: Excessive fatness.
- reprehand
- verb: To find fault with.
- surfeit
- verb: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
- vindicatory
- adjective: Punitive.
- valedictory
- noun: A parting address.
- confidant
- noun: One to whom secrets are entrusted.
- linear
- adjective: Of the nature of a line.
- domineer
- verb: To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
- conscience
- noun: The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
- intrepid
- adjective: Fearless and bold.
- notorious
- adjective: Unfavorably known to the general public.
- callosity
- noun: The state of being hard and insensible.
- propriety
- noun: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
- unify
- verb: To cause to be one.
- reconstruct
- verb: To rebuild.
- norm
- noun: A model.
- repudiate
- verb: To refuse to have anything to do with.
- divest
- verb: To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
- depreciation
- noun: A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
- nil
- noun: Nothing
- peddle
- verb: To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
- extemporaneous
- adjective: Done or made without much or any preparation.
- resonance
- adjective: Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
- lucid
- adjective: Mentally sound.
- intelligence
- noun: Capacity to know or understand.
- torpor
- noun: Apathy.
- subacid
- adjective: Somewhat sharp or biting.
- evict
- verb: To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
- quite
- aderb: Fully.
- vehement
- adjective: Very eager or urgent.
- extortion
- noun: The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
- similar
- adjective: Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
- conceit
- noun: Self-flattering opinion.
- innocuous
- adjective: Harmless.
- extraneous
- adjective: Having no essential relation to a subject.
- disciple
- noun: One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
- discriminate
- verb: To draw a distinction.
- somnolent
- adjective: Sleepy.
- annotate
- verb: To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
- recur
- verb: To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
- animalcule
- noun: An animal of microscopic smallness.
- translucent
- adjective: Allowing the passage of light.
- effluvium
- noun: A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter.
- humanitarian
- noun: A philanthropist.
- adversity
- noun: Misfortune.
- lapse
- noun: A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
- unisonant
- adjective: Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
- commingle
- verb: To blend.
- defamation
- noun: Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
- confessor
- noun: A spiritual advisor.
- jurisdiction
- noun: Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
- transact
- verb: To do business.
- averse
- adjective: Reluctant.
- subjugate
- verb: To conquer.
- vociferance
- noun: The quality of making a clamor.
- conjunction
- noun: The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
- postgraduate
- adjective: Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
- demagnetize
- verb: To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
- mollify
- verb: To soothe.
- homonym
- noun: A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
- sidereal
- adjective: Pertaining to stars or constellations.
- maneuver
- verb: To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
- culvert
- noun: Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
- decimate
- verb: To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
- infringe
- verb: To trespass upon.
- reliance
- noun: Dependence.
- amateur
- adjective: Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
- sylph
- noun: A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
- effrontery
- noun: Unblushing impudence.
- reclusory
- noun: A hermitage.
- utilitarianism
- noun: The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
- rankle
- verb: To produce irritation or festering.
- insignificance
- noun: Lack of import or of importance.
- archetype
- noun: A prototype.
- edible
- adjective: Suitable to be eaten.
- disenfranchise
- verb: To deprive of any right privilege or power
- peninsular
- adjective: Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
- artless
- adjective: Ingenuous.
- ordeal
- noun: Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
- rendition
- noun: Interpretation.
- analogy
- noun: Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
- eccentric
- adjective: Peculiar.
- covey
- noun: A flock of quails or partridges.
- tentative
- adjective: Done as an experiment.
- agglomerate
- verb: To pile or heap together.
- antipathize
- verb: To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
- boatswain
- noun: A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
- comport
- verb: To conduct or behave (oneself).
- appellate
- adjective: Capable of being appealed to.
- omniscient
- adjective: Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
- ascribe
- verb: To assign as a quality or attribute.
- efficacy
- noun: The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
- breech
- noun: The buttocks.
- opprobrium
- noun: The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
- connoisseur
- noun: A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
- insular
- adjective: Pertaining to an island.
- expanse
- noun: A continuous area or stretch.
- blemish
- noun: A mark that mars beauty.
- lingo
- noun: Language.
- cryptogram
- noun: Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
- stratum
- noun: A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
- dramatist
- noun: One who writes plays.
- drowsy
- adjective: Heavy with sleepiness.
- cycloid
- adjective: Like a circle.