English 1 Vocabulary: SAT Prep
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- treasurer
- bursar
- knowing partnership in wrongdoing
- complicity
- feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt or regret
- compunction
- to humble, disgrace
- abase
- something different from the usual or normal
- aberration
- to loathe, detest
- abhor
- the act of cleansing
- ablution
- to depart secretly
- abscond
- moderate in appetite
- abstemious
- difficult to comprehend
- abstruse
- praise, distinction
- accolade
- bitter, sharp in taste or temper
- acerbic
- harsh, bitter
- acrid
- sharpness of insight
- acumen
- uncompromising
- adamant
- friendly, easy to approach
- affable
- personal offense; insult
- affront
- to make larger or greater in power
- aggrandize
- one doubting that people can know god
- agnostic
- medieval chemical philosophy based on changing metal into gold
- alchemy
- distanced, estranged
- alienated
- noisy dispute
- altercation
- unselfish concern for others' welfare
- altruism
- mixture, compound, alloy
- amalgam
- attitude of uncertainty, conflicting emotions
- ambivalence
- to make better, improve
- ameliorate
- agreeable, cooperative
- amenable
- ornament worn as a charm against evil spirits
- amulet
- out-dated
- anachronistic
- ban, curse; something shunned or disabled
- anathema
- unregularity or deviation from the norm
- anomaly
- to demand or claim arrogantly
- arrogate
- to determine, discover, make certain of
- ascertain
- diligent, persistent, hardworking
- assiduous
- to make less severe, ease, relieve
- assuage
- to waste away, with from disease
- atrophy
- bold, daring, fearless
- audacious
- harmful, with evil intentions
- baleful
- huge creature
- behemoth
- warlike, aggressive
- bellicose
- to confuse, stupefy, plunge deep into thought
- bemuse
- unenlightened
- benighted
- booklover
- bibliophile
- to coax with flattery
- blandish
- using high-sounding but meaningless language
- bombastic
- good-natured geniality, atmosphere of good cheer
- bonhomie
- crude person, one lacking manners or taste
- boor
- middle-class
- bourgeois
- cow-like, relating to cows
- bovine
- bandit, outlaw
- brigand
- disastrous, catastrophic
- calamitous
- to sprout and flourish
- burgeon
- brawny, husky
- burly
- to polish, make smooth and bright
- burnish
- jarring, unpleasantly noisy
- cacophonous
- immature, lacking sophistication
- callow
- false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander
- calumny
- smart, founded on common sense
- canny
- to find fault, complain constantly
- carp
- impulsive, whimsical, without much thought
- capricious
- of the flesh
- carnal
- to punish, chastise, criticize severely
- castigate
- universal, broad, and comprehensive
- catholic
- cause-and-effect relationship
- causality
- biting, sarcastic, able to burn
- caustic
- carefree, happy, with lordly disdain
- cavalier
- watchful, cautious, extremely shy
- chary
- trickery, fraud, deception
- chicanery
- fanciful, imaginary, visionary, impossible
- chimerical
- agreement
- concord
- to chuckle
- chortle
- physical grace and beauty
- comeliness
- roomy, spacious
- commodious
- defense wall; anything serving as a defense
- bulwark
- to evoke a spirit, cast a spell
- conjure
- big, destructive fire
- conflagration
- speculation, prediction
- conjecture