Picture These SAT Words!

Unit 1 Words Abstemious: sparing in eating and drinking Abstract: non concrete Abstruse: difficult to understand Acclaim: applaud; announce with great approval Accolade: award of merit Acknowledge: recognize; admit Acquiesce: assent; agree without protesting Adulation: flattery; admiration Adversary: opponent Adversity: poverty; misfortunate Advocate: urge; plead for Aesthetic: pertaining to art or beauty

Unit 2 Words Affable: easily approachable; warmly friendly Affirmation: assertion; confirmation Aggregate: total Alleviate: relieve Aloof: apart; reserved Altruistic: unselfishly generous; concerned for others Ambiguous: unclear or doubtful in meaning Ambivalence: the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes Amorphous: formless; lacking shape or definition Analogous: comparable Anarchist: a person who seeks to overturn the established government; and advocate of abolishing authority Animosity: active enmity

Unit 3 Words Anomaly: irregularity Antagonism: actively expressed hostility Antediluvian: antiquated; extremely old Antidote: medicine to counteract a poison or disease; something that relives a harmful effect Antiquated: old-fashioned; obsolete Apathy: indifference Appease: pacify or soothe; relieve Apprehension: fear Arbitrary: capricious; randomly chosen Archaic: ancient; out of date Ardent: intense; passionate; zealous Arrogance: pride; haughtiness

Unit 4 Words Articulate: effective; distinct Artifact: object made by human beings Artisan: manually skilled worker; craftsman as opposed to artist Ascendancy: controlling influence; domination Ascetic: practicing self-denial; austere Aspire: seek to attain; long for Assiduous: diligent Assuage: ease or lessen; satisfy; soothe Astute: wise; shrewd; keen Attribute: ascribe; explain Audacious: daring; bold Austere: forbidding stern; severely simple and unornamented

Unit 5 Words Authoritarian: subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another’s will Autonomous: self-governing Avarice: greediness for wealth Aversion: firm dislike Beguile: charm; mislead or delude Belie: contradict; give a false impression Benevolent: generous; charitable Blighted: impaired; suffering from a disease Bolster: support; reinforce Bombastic: pompous; using inflated language Braggart: boaster Cajole: coax

Unit 6 words Calculated: deliberately planned Candor: frankness; open honesty Capricious: unpredictable; fickle Censure: blame; criticize Charlatan: a quack; pretender to knowledge Coalesce: combine; fuse Colloquial: pertaining to conversational or common speech Compile: assemble; gather; accumulate Complacency: self-satisfaction; smugness Compliance: readiness to yield; conformity Composure: mental calmness Comprehensive: through; inclusive

Unit 7 Words Concede: admit; yield. Conciliatory: reconciling; soothing Concise: brief and compact Conflagration: great fire Confound: confuse; puzzle Contend: assert earnestly Contentious: quarrelsome; causing quarrels Conviction: strongly held belief; judgment that someone is guilty of a crime Cordial: gracious; heartfelt Corrode: destroy by chemical action; deteriorate Criterion: standard used in judging Cryptic: mysterious; hidden; secret

Unit 8 Words Culpable: deserving blame Cursory: hastily done Debilitate: weaken; enfeeble Decorum: orderliness and good taste in manners Degradation: humiliation; debasement; degeneration Deplore: regret; disapprove of Depravity: extreme corruption; wickedness Deprecate: express disapproval of; belittle Deride: ridicule; make fun of Derivative: unoriginal; derived from another source Deterrent: something that discourages; hindrance Digression: wandering away from the subject

Unit 9 Words Diligence: steadiness of effort; persistent hard work Disclose: reveal Discount: disregard; dismiss Discriminating: able to see differences Disdain: scorn Disinclination: a lack of inclination; reluctance Dismiss: put away from consideration; reject Disperse: scatter Disputatious: argumentative; fond of arguing Dissent: disagree Divergent: varying; going in different directions from the same point Document: provide written evidence

Unit 10 Words Dogmatic: opinionated; arbitrary Duplicity: double-dealing; hypocrisy Eclectic: composed of elements drawn from diverse sources Egotism: excessive self-importance; conceit Elated: overjoyed; in high sprits Elegy: poem or song expressing lamentation Elusive: Hard to grasp Embellish: adorn; ornament; add fictitious detail Emulate: imitate Endorse: approve; support Enmity: ill will; hatred Ephemeral: short-lived; fleeting

Unit 11 words Equivocal: ambiguous; intentionally misleading Erroneous: mistaken; wrong Eulogy: expression of praise Evanescent: fleeting; vanishing Exalt: raise in rank or dignity; praise Execute: put into effect; carry out Exemplary: serving as a model outstanding Exemplify: serve as an example of ; embody Exhaustive: thorough; comprehensive Explicit: totally clear; definite Extol: praise; glorify Extricate: free; disentangle

Unit 12 words Exuberance-overflowing abundance Facilitate-help bring about; make less difficult Fallow-plowed but not sowed; uncultivated Falter-hesitate Fanaticism-excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause Fastidious-difficult to please; really careful Feasible-practical Flagrant-conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous Furtive-stealthy; sneaky Garrulous-talkative; wordy Glacial-very slowly; like a glacier extremely cold Glutton-someone who eats and drinks excessively

Unit 13 Gregarious-sociable  Some studies suggest that girls tend to be more gregarious than boys. Guile-deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning  Unable to get hired, Jim resorted to guile and added jobs he had never had to his resume. Gullible-easily deceived  The new teacher was so gullible; she actually believed that my dog ate my homework. Hamper-obstruct; make more difficult  My attempts to lose weight were hampered because I work at Dairy Queen. Hardy-strong  A football running back must be hardy enough to take repeated poundings from the defense. Haughtiness-pride; arrogance  People generally expect royalty to behave with considerable haughtiness.

Unit 13 continued… Hedonist-one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life  Charles was a hedonist when young but became more interested in spiritual matters as he aged. Heresy-opinion contrary to popular belief  Saying sports are pointless would probably be regarded as heresy by most Americans. Hierarchy-arrangement by rank or standing  Every country has a social hierarchy based on the status possessed by each individual. Homogeneous-composed of identical parts  A world with homogeneous population would be a pretty boring place. Hyperbole-exaggeration; overstatement  Writers sometimes use hyperbole to create “larger-than-life” characters. Hypocritical-pretending to be virtuous; deceiving  It was hypocritical of my mom to say to wait until I was older to marry when she married at 18.

Semester Review Calculated: deliberately planned Complacency: self-satisfaction; smugness Composure: mental calmness Comprehensive: through; inclusive Confound: confuse; puzzle Corrode: destroy by chemical action; deteriorate Criterion: standard used in judging Cryptic: mysterious; hidden; secret Degradation: humiliation; debasement; degeneration Deplore: regret; disapprove of Deterrent: something that discourages; hindrance Digression: wandering away from the subject Eclectic: composed of elements drawn from diverse sources

Semester Review Cont. Elated: overjoyed; in high sprits Elusive: Hard to grasp Embellish: adorn; ornament; add fictitious detail Equivocal: ambiguous; intentionally misleading Exalt: raise in rank or dignity; praise Exemplary: serving as a model outstanding Explicit: totally clear; definite Exuberance-overflowing abundance Falter-hesitate Feasible-practical Glutton-someone who eats and drinks excessively Gullible-easily deceived Hypocritical-pretending to be virtuous; deceiving