SAT vocab
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206 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| abase |  lower; humiliate |
| abash | to embarrass |
| abate | to lessen |
| abominate | to loathe; hate |
| abstruse | profound; difficult to understand |
| accentuate | to stress; emphasize |
| acclivity | sharp incline of a hill |
| accolade | an award; honor |
| accost | to approach and speak to |
| adroit | skillful |
| adulate | to flatter and praise so much it's sickening |
| adulterate | to make impure |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow by disclosing only partially |
| adverse | hostile; opposed; unfavorable |
| advocate | to urge; recommend |
| aesthetic | artistic; pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful |
| affected | fake (think a-FAKE-ted) |
| affinity | attraction |
| affluent | rich |
| affray | public brawl |
| agape | open-mouthed |
| aghast | horrified |
| agile | able to move in a quick and easy fashion |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness |
| alias | a false name |
| alimentary | supplying nourishment |
| allay | to soothe; to make more bearable; relieve |
| alleged | stated without proof |
| alleviate | to make more bearable; physical relief |
| allude | to refer indirectly |
| allusion | a reference to someone |
| altercation | a violent dispute |
| amass | to collect; to get a bunch of |
| ambulatory | able to walk |
| ameliorate | to improve a bad situation |
| amity | peaceful relations; friendship |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| amok | freaked out and violently pissed off |
| amorphous | shapeless |
| anthropoid | humanlike |
| antipathy | hatred; aversion; dislike |
| apathetic | indifferent; showing lack of interest |
| apathy | indifference; lack of difference |
| apex | tip; peak; summit; way up there |
| appease | to soothe; placate; satisfy |
| arbitrary | chosen at random or without apparent reason |
| ardor | heat; passion; zeal |
| askew | crooked; off to one side |
| assuage | to ease; to pacify |
| astute | shrewd; wise; observing |
| attribute | (n.) a characteristic, usually a good one. (v.) to explain by indicating a cause |
| atypical | not typical |
| audacity | boldness |
| august | majestic; awe-inspiring |
| austerity | severity; strictness |
| averse | opposed; unwilling |
| avuncular | means "like an uncle" |
| awry | twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong |
| bacchanalian | orgiastic; like wild drunken revelry |
| baleful | something that exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil |
| baneful | something that is really poisonous or deadly |
| barrister | lawyer |
| bawdy | obscene; coarse; humorous |
| beatific | displaying or imparting joy |
| begrudge | to envy; to resent |
| beguile | to trick |
| belated | delayed; late |
| bellicose | violent; warlike |
| benevolent | kind |
| berate | to scold severely |
| bereft | lacking something needed |
| betroth | to become engaged |
| biennial | every two years |
| bland | not stimulating; dull |
| blandishment | flattery |
| blighted | ruined; destroyed; withered |
| boisterous | rowdy |
| bombastic | grandiloquent (wordy, pompous) in speech or writing |
| braggadocio | cockiness; a braggart |
| brevity | briefness |
| brusque | brief, curt, gruff, discourteous |
| bucolic | pastoral; typical of farms and rural life |
| bumptious | self-assertive |
| burgeon | to grow; sprout; flourish |
| burnish | to polish |
| cache | hiding place |
| cacophonous | sounding discordant; terrible and generally unpleasant to listen to; the opposite of euphonious |
| cadaver | corpse |
| cajole | to coax |
| callous | unfeeling; unsympathetic |
| calumniate | to slander |
| calumny | slander; defamation |
| candor | frankness; candidness |
| cantankerous | ill-natured; quarrelsome |
| capacious | spacious |
| capitulate | to surrender |
| capricious | unpredictable; following whim |
| captious | fault-finding |
| carrion | rotting flesh |
| castigate | to punish |
| cathartic | cleansing; allowing a release of tension or emotion |
| caustic | burning; characterized by a bitter wit |
| cauterize | to burn tissue (usually because a wound isn't clotting) |
| cavil | to raise unnecessary or trivial objections |
| celerity | sweftness, speed |
| celibacy | condition of being celibate |
| celibate | without sex; unmarried |
| censor | (v.) to remove inappropriate stuff. (n.)someone who censors things |
| censure | to criticize; blame |
| cerebration | thought |
| chagrin | embarrassment |
| chaos | state of utter confusion |
| charlatan | quack; someone who pretends he's someone he's not |
| chaste | pure; unspoiled; virginal |
| chicanery | trickery |
| chimerical | far out; bizarre; really heady |
| choleric | hot tempered |
| churlish | boorish; rude |
| ciliated | having tiny hairs |
| circumspect | prudent; cautious |
| clemency | mildness of temper, especially leniency toward an enemy or in sentencing a criminal |
| cogent | clear; logical; well-thought-out |
| cogitate | to think about deeply and carefully |
| cognizant | fully informed and aware; conscious |
| comely | attractive; agreeable |
| comestible | food |
| commensurate | equal; proportionate |
| commiserate | to sympathize; to be miserable together |
| comport | to behave in a particular way |
| compunction | strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
| concurrent | at the same time |
| congenital | existing at birth |
| conjecture | statement made without adequate evidence |
| conjugal | pertaining to marriage |
| contort | twist; bend |
| contrition | remorse; repentance; bitter regret felt owing to wrongdoing |
| controversial | of, relating to, or causing dispute |
| convoke | to call together; to cause to assemble |
| corporal | of the body; bodily |
| corpulent | obese; having a fat body |
| corroborate | to testify in agreement |
| countermand | to cancel a command |
| covert | conceated; secret |
| cower | to quiver; shrink from fear |
| crass | uncultured |
| credulity | gullibility |
| crestfallen | dejected |
| crux | main point; central issue; heart of the matter |
| cull | to select; weed out |
| cupidity | greed; avarice |
| dais | raised platform |
| daunt | to intimidate; frighten |
| dauntless | bold, unable to be daunted |
| dearth | scarcity |
| debase | to lower in quality or value; adulterate |
| decoy | to lure or bait |
| defenestration | the act of throwing something out the window |
| delude | to deceive |
| demur | to object mildly |
| demure | reserved; modest |
| deplete | to lessen the supply or content of |
| depraved | morally corrupt; debased; perverted |
| deranged | having a severe mental disorder; being insane |
| derogate | to detract; to take away |
| descry | to discern; to catch sight of something that is difficult to catch sight of |
| desultory | aimless; disconnected; rambling; haphazard |
| deter | to prevent or discourage from happening |
| devastate | to ruin by violent action |
| devoid | completely lacking; void; empty; without |
| dexterous | adroit or skillful in the use of hands or body |
| diabolical | fiendish; devilish; nastily scheming |
| diaphanous | translucent; gossamer |
| discern | to detect by the use of senses |
| discord | lack of harmony |
| disparage | to belittle; to reduce in esteem |
| disseminate | to dispense objects, such as seeds, newspapers; to distribute |
| distraught | anxious; worried; distressed |
| divers | several |
| diverse | distinct; varied; differing |
| doleful | sad; mournful |
| drastic | severe |
| dynamic | energetic; vigorous; forceful |
| ebullient | bubbly; overflowing with excitement |
| edify | to enlighten; educate |
| educe | to elicit, to draw out |
| efface | to erase; rub out |
| effete | tired; barren; decadent |
| effigy | dummy (mannequin), usually for symbolic torturing |
| elation | exhilaration; joy |
| emaciated | excessively thin; weak |
| emulate | to imitate closely |
| epitaph | memorial text carved on a tombstone |
| epitome | something that perfectly represents an entire class of things; embodiment |
| equestrian | pertaining to horsemanship; on horseback |
| equipoise | equality; balance; equilibrium |
| equivocal | capable of two interpretations; ambiguous |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by small amounts |
| erudite | scholarly |
| eschew | avoide; shun |
| esoteric | known only by a few people |
| ethereal | not of the material world |
| eulogy | praiseful speech at a funeral |
| euphemism | nice way of saying something unpleasant |
| exact | to demand |
| exhume | to remove from a grave; disinter |
| exigent | urgent; requiring immediate attention |
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