SAT Vocabulary Unit 3
ACCOLADE An award of merit (earned for your performance)
ACCOMMODATE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO MAKE ROOM FOR TO RENDER FIT TO ADAPT
BEQUEATH TO HAND DOWN TO LEAVE TO SOMEONE AFTER A DEATH, THROUGH A WILL
CAPRICIOUS SPUR OF THE MOMENT SUBJECT TO WHIMS OR PASSING FANCIES
DEFERENCE COURTEOUS REGARD FOR ANOTHER’S WISHES
EGREGIOUS CONSPICUOUS STANDING OUT FROM THE MASS (FOR BAD REASONS) REMARKABLY BAD
FALLACIOUS EMBODYING A FALSEHOOD MISLEADING (DUE TO WRONG THINKING OR REASONING)
GENRE A KIND A SORT A SPECIES ESP. RELATING TO LITERATURE OR ART
HAVOC WIDE AND GENERAL DESTRUCTION DEVASTATION
IMMUTABLE UNCHANGEABLE IM = NOT MUT = CHANGE Law of Gravity
IMPASSIVE WITHOUT FEELING NOT AFFECTED BY PAIN
LANGUISH TO LOSE ANIMATION TO LOSE STRENGTH
MANDATE AN AUTHORITATIVE COMMAND A FORMAL ORDER CAN BE A VERB – TO ISSUE AN ORDER
NEPOTISM UNDUE FAVORITISM TO ONE’S RELATIVES OR CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS
OBSEQUIOUS EXCESSIVELY SUBMISSIVE DISGUSTINGLY AGREEABLE SUCKING UP; KISSING UP
PARADOX A SEEMINGLY CONTRADICTORY STATEMENT “Jumbo shrimp” “Bittersweet”
RATIONALIZE TO GIVE A REASONABLE EXPLANATION TO EXPLAIN OR JUSTIFY ON REASONABLE GROUNDS
SAGE WISDOM GAINED THROUGH EXPERIENCE ONE WHO IS CONSIDERED WISE
TANTAMOUNT EQUIVALENT HAVING THE SAME MEANING/VALUE/EFFECT EQUAL TO
VEHEMENTLY INTENSELY FORCEFULLY POWERFULLY