Neutral SSAT Nouns ed9s
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abyss | bottomless gulf; something too deep for measurement |
| acrimony | bitterness; anger |
| adversary | enemy; opponent; foe |
| animosity | hatred; hostility |
| anxiety | emotional state of fear and uncertainty |
| aspersion | false rumor; slander |
| avarice | greed |
| aversion | intense dislike |
| buffoon | fool; clown |
| barrage | curtain of artillery fire; prolonged attack; concentrated outpouring, as of questions or blows |
| belligerence | hostility or aggression; the quality of being hostile, ready to start a fight, or ready to go to war |
| bile | the bitter, greenish fluid secreted by the liver |
| bravado | pretended courage or feigned confidence |
| brunt | worst part or chief impact of a specified thing |
| catastrophe | any sudden, great disaster |
| coercion | force |
| collision | crash; colliding |
| crone | thin, old, ugly woman; hag |
| dearth | scarcity; insufficiency |
| deceit | dishonest, misleading act |
| deception | fraud; act of deceiving |
| desperado | desperate or reckless criminal |
| deterrent | something that discourages |
| discord | conflict; argument |
| discrepancy | difference between |
| disdain | intense dislike; contempt; scorn |
| disparity | difference; inequality in degree |
| disrepute | bad reputation |
| dolt | stupid person |
| drivel | silly nonsense |
| effigy | roughly made model of a particular person, made in order to be damaged or destroyed as a protest or expression of anger |
| facade | front; face; superficial appearance or mask |
| fanatic | overly enthusiastic (person) |
| fatigue | exhaustion; weariness; extreme tiredness |
| fiasco | disaster; total failure |
| flaw | imperfection; fault; mark |
| frivolity | the act of being carefree; self-indulgent |
| glutton | one who indulges; greedy person |
| grimace | contortion of the face when in pain or in amusement |
| guile | sly or cunning intelligence |
| henchman | helpers to criminal bosses |
| highwayman | robber on horseback |
| hindrance | something that blocks or delays |
| holocaust | widespread destruction |
| hovel | any small, miserable hut |
| hypothermia | having unusually low body temperature |
| incarceration | imprisonment |
| insomnia | inability to sleep |
| insurgency | uprising; a rebellion |
| intrigue | secret planning of something illicit or detrimental to someone; secret love affair |
| malfunction | failure to function |
| malice | spite; ill will |
| mediocrity | being average |
| melancholy | sadness; state of grief |
| mishap | unfortunate accident |
| mutation | change; alteration in the genes |
| notoriety | disrepute; ill fame |
| obstacle | hindrance; block |
| obstruction | anything that blocks the path or way |
| perjury | lie under oath |
| phobia | fear |
| pitfall | unsuspected danger or difficulty |
| plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own |
| plight | unfortunate, difficult situation; predicament |
| predicament | difficult situation |
| pretext | excuse that is not the real reason something is done |
| prude | excessively modest; pure |
| quandary | perplexing dilemma over what to do in a difficult situation |
| rabble | disorderly crowd |
| revulsion | disgust |
| rigor | severity; challenge |
| ruse | deception; trick |
| schism | division; split; discord |
| shroud | enveloping garment wrapped around the dead; envelop or obscure something |
| spendthrift | one who wastes money |
| stench | foul odor |
| stigma | mark of disgrace or shame |
| stress | pressure; mental or emotional strain |
| tic | twitch; idiosyncrasy |
| toxin | poisonous substance |
| travesty | distorted or absurd imitation |
| trepidation | fear; apprehension |
| tumult | confusion; disorder; loud, confused noise |
| tyranny | cruel exercise of power; absolute and arbitrary rule |
| ulcer | open sore on an external or internal surface of the body; moral blemish or corrupting influence |
| umbrage | offense or annoyance |
| vendetta | feud |
| xenophobia | intense or irrational dislike or fear of foreigners |
| vandalism | intentional destruction of work or private property |
| warlock | one that breaks faith; the devil; wizard; sorcerer |
| wrath | anger; indignation |
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