IB English HL-1 SAT Vocabular
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1. Allay | 1. To lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pains |
| 2. Alleviate | 2. To lessen pain or tension |
| 3. Appease | 3. To make tranquil or quiet, especially by giving into demands; to pacify |
| 4. Assuage | 4. To alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify |
| 5. Conciliate | 5. To win a person over through special consideration r persuasive methods |
| 6. Mediate | 6. To act as a go-between in settling conflicts or disputes between people or opposing sides |
| 7. Mitigate | 7. To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage |
| 8. Mollify | 8. To pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent |
| 9. Pacify | 9. To calm, to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state |
| 10. Colloquial | 10. Pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
| 11. Diffuse | 11. Spread out, not concise; wordy |
| 12. Digress | 12. To wander off from the subject or topic spoken about |
| 13. Eloquence | 13. Artful ease with speaking; speech that can impact people's feelings |
| 14. Garrulous | 14. Talkative; loquacious |
| 15. Grandiloquent | 15. Using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
| 16. Loquacious | 16. Given to excessive talking; wordy |
| 17. Prattle | 17. To speak on and on in a senseless and silly many; to talk foolishly |
| 18. Rant | 18. To talk very loudly, even wildly |
| 19. Rhetorical | 19. Relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression |
| 20. Verbose | 20. Using too many words; wordy; long-winded |
| 21. Antediluvian | 21. Very, very old; antiquated |
| 22. Antiquated | 22. Very old and no longer in use; obsolete |
| 23. Antiquity | 23. Ancient times |
| 24. Archaic | 24. Old; from a much earlier time; antiquated |
| 25. Obsolete | 25. Old; outdated, as in no longer in use |
| 26. Relic | 26. A custom or object that has been around for a very, very long time |
| 27. Contemporary | 27. Modern, new; relating to the same time period |
| 28. Inception | 28. That start, the beginning of something |
| 29. Innovation | 29. Something new |
| 30. Novel | 30. New |
| 31. Unprecedented | 31. Novel; unparalleled |
| 32. Cautious | 32. Cautious; wary |
| 33. Circumspect | 33. Careful and cautious before choosing |
| 34. Exacting | 34. Requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking |
| 35. Gingerly | 35. Very carefully |
| 36. Heedful | 36. Paying careful attention to |
| 37. Meticulous | 37. Very careful; fussy; finicky |
| 38. Scrupulous | 38. Showing great care and honesty, based on a belief of what is right and proper (morals) |
| 39. Vigilant | 39. Carefully alert and watchful |
| 40. Wary | 40. Cautious; careful; chary |
| 41. Acclaim | 41. To express strong approval or praise; hail |
| 42. Adulate | 42. To praise or flatter too greatly; fawn over |
| 43. Esteem | 43. To value highly; to have great regard for |
| 44. Eulogize | 44. To praise, as in a eulogy; to say good things about |
| 45. Exalt | 45. To praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity or power |
| 46. Extol | 46. Praise highly; laud |
| 47. Laud | 47. To praise; extol |
| 48. Panegyrize | 48. To praise a person or event in a formal speech or in writing; to praise highly |
| 49. Revere | 49. Regard highly with love and respect |
| 50. Venerate | 50. To feel or show deep respect for, especially due to age or tradition; to honor |
| 51. Ad nauseam | 51. Going on and on and on to the point of nausea |
| 52. Ante bellum | 52. Before the American civil war |
| 53. Avant-garde | 53. People with ideas ahead of their time |
| 54. Bête-noire | 54. A person/thing feared or to be avoided |
| 55. Cause célèbre | 55. A controversy that attracts great public attention; usually involves celebrities |
| 56. Coup de grâce | 56. The final shot that kills a victim |
| 57. Coup d'état | 57. Sudden overthrow of gvn't |
| 58. Esprit de corps | 58. Sense of unity; feeling of belonging to a certain group |
| 59. Ersatz | 59. Substitute or synthetic |
| 60. Joie de vivre | 60. Joy of living |
| 61. Noblesse oblige | 61. Obligation of royals/nobles to act kindly to others |
| 62. Non sequitur | 62. A remark having nothing to do with what was previously said |
| 63. Schadenfreude | 63. Glee at another person's misfortune |
| 64. Tête-à-tête | 64. Private conversation or interview usually between two people |
| 65. Zeitgeist | 65. Spirit of the time; general trend of feeling characteristic to a certain period of time |
| 66. Bon mot | 66. A witty remark |
| 67. Carte blanche | 67. Unconditional authority |
| 68. Deus ex machina | 68. A device used to resolve all problems |
| 69. Fait accompli | 69. An accomplished fact; a thing already done |
| 70. Gauche | 70. Lacking social grace; awkward |
| 71. In flagrante delicto | 71. Caught in the act of doing something wrong |
| 72. Junta | 72. A small group ruling a country, especially after a coup d'état |
| 73. Nouveau riche | 73. A person who is newly rich |
| 74. Malaise | 74. A condition of general weakness or discomfort in the body |
| 75. Mensch | 75. A decent, upright, mature and responsible person |
| 76. Pièce de résistance | 76. The masterpiece in a collection |
| 77. Raison d'être | 77. Reason of being |
| 78. Tour de force | 78. An exceptional achievement by someone, yet thought to not have been possible |
| 79. Savoir-faire | 79. The knowledge of just what to do in any situation |
| 80. Vox populi | 80. The voice of the people |
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