SAT Vocab
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Lindsey112 on May 2, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 (After a whole summer, my brain became a) STAGNATE (mush) | to become inactive; to become stale (standing; s) |
| (Brady is a very) BELLICOSE (person) | warlike in manner (war; b) |
| (The attacker will) ASSAIL (the victim from behind in this next scene) | to attack or assault (at + leap; a) |
| INSTIGATE(D) (by his friends, Mark jumped into the river) | to goad; to urge on (i) |
| (Picasso's) PROVOCATIVE (artwork has inspired many artists to begin thinking out of the box) | tending to aggravate or stimulate (forth + to call; p) |
| (Dad has a) PROPENSITY (for cooking the same things over and over again during certain spans) | a natural inclination; a tendency (forth; p) |
| (Her toast was inappropriately) ACRIMONIOUS, (and we could all tell that she had not forgiven her friend) | bitterness of feeling; harsh words (bitter + action or condition; a) |
| (How can this) CACOPHONY (coming out of my son's bedroom be today's popular music?) | discord; harsh sounds (ugly + sound; c) |
| (Although they claimed to love animals, the conditions at their run-down shelter were) DEPLORABLE | worthy of reproach or censure (to cry out in sorrow; d) |
| (Emma is so angelic that her most) EGREGIOUS (action was accidentally hitting a girl when trying to score a goal in field hockey) | offensively bad; reprehensible (e) |
| (When all the seniors cut assembly, Mr. Bland placed them under) ASTRINGENT (punishments) | caustic; pungent (a) |
| (The nomads were a) PERIPATETIC (clan; they never stayed in the same place very long) | traveling from place to place (around + to walk; p) |
| (The zoo visitors were) IMPEL(LED into action by the announcement that a lion was loose) | to put into motion; to urge (force; i) |
| (My) PERIPHERAL (vision is blurrier than my direct vision) | located on the outer boundary (around; p) |
| (That) VAGRANT (hobo tends to hang out around the soup kitchen here or in the alley down the street) | wandering from place to place (wandering; v) |
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