SAT Vocab Prep 06
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- correlative
- adjective: Mutually involving or implying one another.
- mnemonics
- noun: A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
- perception
- noun: Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
- preamble
- noun: A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
- predominate
- verb: To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
- wampum
- noun: Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
- modulate
- verb: To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
- micrometer
- noun: An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
- by-law
- noun: A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
- bailiff
- noun: An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
- furtherance
- noun: Advancement.
- mundane
- adjective: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
- acquit
- verb: To free or clear, as from accusation.
- enhance
- verb: To intensify.
- impregnable
- adjective: That can not be taken by assault.
- mallet
- noun: A wooden hammer.
- sinuous
- adjective: Curving in and out.
- infidelity
- noun: Disloyalty.
- tribune
- noun: Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
- colloquy
- noun: Conversation.
- physiography
- noun: Description of nature.
- philology
- noun: The study of language in connection with history and literature.
- percolate
- verb: To filter.
- languid
- adjective: Relaxed.
- clemency
- noun: Mercy.
- antecede
- verb: To precede.
- appertain
- verb: To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
- reassure
- verb: To give new confidence.
- expedite
- verb: To hasten the movement or progress of.
- aide-de-camp
- noun: An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
- viscount
- noun: In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
- proxy
- noun: A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
- mountaineer
- noun: One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
- preexist
- verb: To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
- bronchitis
- noun: Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
- discursive
- adjective: Passing from one subject to another.
- provident
- adjective: Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
- pamphlet
- noun: A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
- famish
- verb: To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
- moat
- noun: A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
- profile
- noun: An outline or contour.
- isle
- noun: An island.
- instant
- noun: A very brief portion of time.
- anesthetic
- adjective: Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
- insomnia
- noun: Sleeplessness.
- outstrip
- verb: To go beyond.
- brigade
- noun: A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
- constrict
- verb: To bind.
- taxidermy
- noun: The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
- aqueous
- adjective: Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
- matrix
- noun: That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
- imitator
- noun: One who makes in imitation.
- impugn
- verb: To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
- prepossession
- noun: A preconceived liking.
- intimidate
- verb: To cause to become frightened.
- lyre
- noun: One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
- gusto
- noun: Keen enjoyment.
- knight errant
- noun: One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
- impecunious
- adjective: Having no money.
- repellent
- adjective: Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
- tremendous
- adjective: Awe-inspiring.
- navigate
- verb: To traverse by ship.
- incomplete
- adjective: Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required.
- syllabus
- noun: Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
- outdo
- verb: To surpass.
- mongrel
- noun: The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
- existence
- noun: Possession or continuance of being.
- derivative
- adjective: Coming or acquired from some origin.
- perverse
- adjective: Unreasonable.
- ligament
- noun: That which binds objects together.
- bilingual
- adjective: Speaking two languages.
- stringency
- noun: Strictness.
- embroil
- verb: To involve in dissension or strife.
- grimace
- noun: A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
- aeronautics
- noun: the art or practice of flying aircraft
- demonstrative
- adjective: Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
- cosmology
- noun: The general science of the universe.
- generalize
- verb: To draw general inferences.
- sanguine
- adjective: Having the color of blood.
- inexhaustible
- adjective: So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent.
- counteract
- verb: To act in opposition to.
- licentious
- adjective: Wanton.
- monition
- noun: Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
- irascible
- adjective: Prone to anger.
- primeval
- adjective: Belonging to the first ages.
- aural
- adjective: Of or pertaining to the ear.
- candid
- adjective: Straightforward.
- reducible
- adjective: That may be reduced.
- decimal
- adjective: Founded on the number 10.
- nectar
- noun: Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
- insignificant
- adjective: Without importance, force, or influence.
- inexpensive
- adjective: Low-priced.
- philanthropist
- noun: One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
- close-hauled
- adjective: Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
- augment
- verb: To make bigger.
- shiftless
- adjective: Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
- contiguous
- adjective: Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
- effective
- adjective: Fit for a destined purpose.
- convergent
- adjective: Tending to one point.
- grandiloquent
- adjective: Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
- cull
- verb: To pick or sort out from the rest.
- birthright
- noun: A privilege or possession into which one is born.
- paraphrase
- verb: Translate freely.
- isolate
- verb: To separate from others of its kind.
- subsequent
- adjective: Following in time.
- decipher
- verb: To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
- corps
- noun: A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
- fanciless
- adjective: Unimaginative.
- uproot
- verb: To eradicate.
- visual
- adjective: Perceptible by sight.
- docile
- adjective: Easy to manage.
- allot
- verb: To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
- flatulence
- noun: Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
- bullock
- noun: An ox.
- hindrance
- noun: An obstacle.
- transposition
- noun: The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
- archaic
- adjective: Antiquated
- ignominious
- adjective: Shameful.
- quarto
- noun: An eight-page newspaper of any size.
- Narcissus
- noun: The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
- duet
- noun: A composition for two voices or instruments.
- impiety
- noun: Irreverence toward God.
- inscrutable
- adjective: Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
- course
- noun: Line of motion or direction.
- syllable
- noun: That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
- deficient
- adjective: Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
- undercharge
- verb: To make an inadequate charge for.
- vertigo
- noun: Dizziness.
- genesis
- noun: Creation.
- distention
- noun: Expansion.
- surveyor
- noun: A land-measurer.
- lyric
- adjective: Fitted for expression in song.
- Canaanite
- noun: A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
- nauseous
- adjective: Loathsome.
- philologist
- noun: An expert in linguistics.
- insistence
- noun: Urgency.
- sensibility
- noun: Power to perceive or feel.
- extol
- verb: To praise in the highest terms.
- conciliatory
- adjective: Tending to reconcile.
- degradation
- noun: Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
- palinode
- noun: A retraction.
- confluent
- noun: A stream that unites with another.
- tenure
- noun: The term during which a thing is held.
- subaquatic
- adjective: Being, formed, or operating under water.
- inflammable
- adjective: Easily set on fire or excited.
- planisphere
- noun: A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
- myriad
- noun: A vast indefinite number.
- naphtha
- noun: A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
- remonstrance
- noun: Reproof.
- quadrate
- verb: To divide into quarters.
- dissension
- noun: Angry or violent difference of opinion.
- lifelong
- adjective: Lasting or continuous through life.
- gnash
- verb: To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
- icily
- aderb: Frigidly.
- obstinacy
- noun: Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
- incomparable
- adjective: Matchless.
- physics
- noun: The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
- malaria
- noun: A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating.
- trestle
- noun: An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
- ostentation
- noun: A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
- inanimate
- adjective: Destitute of animal life.
- virtual
- adjective: Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
- piccolo
- noun: A small flute.
- penultimate
- adjective: A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
- prologue
- noun: A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
- pledgee
- noun: The person to whom anything is pledged.
- principal
- adjective: Most important.
- tactics
- noun: Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
- matinee
- noun: An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
- undersized
- adjective: Of less than the customary size.
- deponent
- adjective: Laying down.
- palliate
- verb: To cause to appear less guilty.
- creamy
- adjective: Resembling or containing cream.
- irrelevant
- adjective: Inapplicable.
- apposition
- noun: The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
- freemason
- noun: A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
- lien
- noun: A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
- monogamy
- noun: The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
- compliant
- adjective: Yielding.
- omnivorous
- adjective: Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately.
- microcosm
- noun: The world or universe on a small scale.
- profligate
- adjective: Abandoned to vice.
- allude
- verb: To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
- quiescent
- adjective: Being in a state of repose or inaction.
- thesis
- noun: An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
- neo-Darwinsim
- noun: Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
- inconceivable
- adjective: Incomprehensible.
- equivocate
- verb: To use words of double meaning.
- acclaim
- verb: To utter with a shout.
- kernel
- noun: A grain or seed.
- intention
- noun: That upon which the mind is set.
- botanize
- verb: To study plant-life.
- wherewith
- noun: The necessary means or resources.
- subordinate
- adjective: Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
- moribund
- adjective: On the point of dying.
- explosion
- noun: A sudden and violent outbreak.
- meretricious
- adjective: Alluring by false or gaudy show.
- sinus
- noun: An opening or cavity.
- adduce
- verb: To bring forward or name for consideration.
- belay
- verb: To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
- presentiment
- noun: Foreboding.
- erroneous
- adjective: Incorrect.
- fez
- noun: A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
- thoroughbred
- adjective: Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
- mileage
- noun: A distance in miles.
- Scriptural
- adjective: Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
- nomad
- adjective: Having no fixed abode.
- laureate
- adjective: Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
- insuppressible
- adjective: Incapable of being concealed.
- incapacitate
- verb: To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification.
- hydrometer
- noun: An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
- semblance
- noun: Outward appearance.
- rectitude
- noun: The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
- hemorrhage
- noun: Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
- niggardly
- adjective: Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
- masterpiece
- noun: A superior production.
- imprudent
- adjective: Heedless.
- justification
- noun: Vindication.
- despond
- verb: To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
- credence
- noun: Belief.
- revocation
- noun: Repeal.
- boycott
- verb: To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
- depopulate
- verb: To remove the inhabitants from.
- correlate
- verb: To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
- fervor
- noun: Ardor or intensity of feeling.
- brokerage
- noun: The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
- luminescent
- adjective: Showing increase of light.
- posit
- verb: To present in an orderly manner.
- salvo
- noun: A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
- overpay
- verb: To pay or reward in excess.
- chagrin
- noun: Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
- pecuniary
- adjective: Consisting of money.
- hydrostatics
- noun: The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
- makeup
- noun: The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
- garrote
- verb: To execute by strangling.
- decrepit
- adjective: Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
- appellation
- noun: The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
- guzzle
- verb: To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
- abase
- verb: To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
- futurist
- noun: A person of expectant temperament.
- abjure
- verb: To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
- pollute
- verb: To contaminate.
- obtrude
- verb: To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
- dormant
- adjective: Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
- plumb
- noun: A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
- embellish
- verb: To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
- sentence
- noun: A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
- intestine
- noun: That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
- initiate
- verb: To perform the first act or rite.
- stature
- noun: The natural height of an animal body.