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SAT/ACT Vocab Practice

Terms in this set (71)

Lionize
1. To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest
Lionize
2. To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among object of interest
Augment
Make (something) greater by adding to it; increase
Ravaged
Severely damaged; devastated
(of a person) - disfigured by age/illness
Bypass
1. A road by passing around a town or its center to provide an alternative route for through traffic
Bypass
2. To miss or skip over
Savants
A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person for aquirements
Consecrate
To declare or set apart as sacred
Indoctrinate
To teach someone a set of ideas or doctrines
Prevalent
Wide spread in a particular time
Antagonism
Active hostility or opposition
Rugged
1. Having a broken, rocky and uneven surface
Rugged
2. Having or requiring toughness and determination
Finesse
Extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, determination, taste, etc
Strife
Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues, conflict
Scholar
A specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities, a distinguished academic
Barrage
To bombard
Overt
Open to view; Public; Apparent; Manifest
Reticent
Someone who is inclined to silence
Desterity
Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands 👐
Apprentice
A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages
Novice
A person who is inexperienced in a field or situation
Frivolity
Lack of seriousness; a light heartedness
Carouse
To drink excessively
Anterior
Before in time; antecedent; before or toward the front
Colloquial
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, especially common and formal conversation
Shrewd
Clever, keen, astute, wise in a practical way
Automate
To mechanize; to power by electricity
Cerebral
Having to do with the brain; intellectual
Bewilder
Confuse, perplex, mystify
Effigy
A dummy or artifact for public observation. If representing someone hated, it might be burned
Advocate
To plead the cause of another, to urge
Complacency
Pleasure, contentment, satisfied with own abilities
Sever
To cut off
Daunt
Discourage by reason of difficulty, intimidate, overwhelm, instill fear or lessen courage
Cringe
To cause to shrink or wrinkle
Sparse
Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together
Lugubrious
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously so
Static
Not moving; stationary
Amenable
Easily managed, tractable, agreeable
Abase
To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade
Abbess
The lady superior of a nunnery
Abbey
The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns
Abbot
The superior of a community of monks
Abdicate
To give up (royal power or the like)
Abdomen
In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly
Abdominal
Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen
Abduction
A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally
Abed
In bed; on a bed
Aberration
Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
Abet
To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense)
Abeyance
A state of suspension or temporary inaction
Abhorrence
The act of detesting extremely
Abhorrent
Very repugnant; hateful
Abidance
An abiding
Abject
Sunk to a low condition
Abjure
To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath
able-bodied
Competent for physical service
ablution
A washing or cleansing, especially of the body
abnegate
To renounce (a right or privilege)
abnormal
Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard
abominable
Very hateful
abominate
To hate violently
abomination
A very detestable act or practice
aboriginal
Primitive; unsophisticated
aborigines
The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country
aboveboard
Without concealment, fraud, or trickery
abrade
To wear away the surface or some part of by friction
abrasion
That which is rubbed off
abridge
To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles
catawampus
askew; awry.

positioned diagonally; cater-cornered
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