Lesson 26 SAT Vocabulary
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- abominable
- repugnantly hateful; very unpleasant, detestable, loathsome
- abscond
- to leave secretly and hide
- capitulate
- to surrender
- castigate
- to punish or to subdue by punishment; to criticize with drastic severity
- comatose
- lethargic, unconscious
- consolidate
- to make solid, to unite, or to merge
- despondency
- depression, dejection
- destitution
- state of being extremely poor, in extreme want
- eddy
- a current of air or water moving contrary to the main current (circularly)
- enfranchise
- to give or to bestow something such as the right to vote or citizenship
- ennoble
- to elevate, to raise in rank
- fecund
- capable of reproducing, intellectual productivity
- inebriation
- drunkenness, intoxication
- inopportune
- inconvenient, poorly timed
- inviolable
- secure from violation or from being profaned
- nonchalance
- indifference, a showing of little interest
- prevarication
- evasiveness, lie
- primordial
- original, existing at the beginning (usually relates to time)
- punctilious
- stressing precise following of instructions, details, codes or conduct
- remonstrate
- to protest, to make objections
- rudimentary
- consisting in first principles, of a primitive kind; relating to basic skills
- sonnet
- a fourteen line form of poetry
- tantamount
- equivalent in value or significance
- turgid
- swollen
- vestigial
- something in an underdeveloped form