SAT Vocabulary Unit 3. ACCOLADE An award of merit (earned for your performance)

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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