1. SAT V OCABULARY 61-70

2. SAT 61 Contrite (adj.) – feeling sorrow and regret for one’s sins or offenses; penitent Synonym – guilt; remorse Antonym – apathetic Sentence – It was hard for Arthur to stay angry with his sister for breaking his game since she was so genuinely contrite. HW – New Sentence

3. SAT 62 Countenance (noun) – face; facial expression Synonyms – look/appearance of face; visage Antonyms – N/A Sentence – One look at Mary’s contorted countenance told her mother that something terrible had happened. NEW SENTENCE

4. SAT 63 Covet (verb) – to wish for enviously Synonym – crave; desire strongly/jealously Antonym – give up/be generous Sentence – Billy coveted Bobby’s bike so much that he decided to steal it! HW – New Sentence

5. SAT 64 Credulous (adj.) Disposed to believe too easily; gullible Synonym – dupable; naïve Antonym – suspicious; suspecting Sentence – Since Susie was so credulous, she was a telemarketer’s dream. HW: NEW SENTENCE

6. SAT 65 Curtail (verb) – to shorten; to cut short Synonym –abridge Antonym – extend; prolong Sentence – Mary decided to curtail her presentation when it became obvious that her classmates were not paying attention to her. HW – NEW SENTENCE

7. SAT 66 Culpable (adj.) – deserving blame or censure for doing wrong Synonym – blame worthy; guilty Antonym – innocent; blameless Sentence – We all felt culpable when the homeless old man died in the doorway of our apartment building. HW – NEW SENTENCE SAT QUIZ – March 1 st (Record the quiz in your agenda. Leave your agenda out while you’re completing the warm up so that I can stamp it. Thanks!)

8. SAT 67 Cynic (noun) – a person who deeply distrusts human nature and believes that all people are motivated by selfishness Synonym – skeptic (especially in regards to human nature); pessimist Antonym – believer, optimist Sentence – When the rich men gave a million dollars to the museum, cynics said he was merely trying to buy a reputation as a cultured person. HW – NEW SENTENCE

9. SAT 68 Dearth (noun) – a lack; a scarcity Synonyms: insufficiency; lack Antonyms: abundance; excess Sentence – There was a dearth of joy at the boring Christmas party. HW – NEW SENTENCE

10. SAT 69 Defame (verb) – to libel or slander; to ruin the good name/reputation of Synonyms – discredit; bad-mouth; disgrace; scandalize Antonym – commend; praise Sentence – The plant manager said that the workers had defamed him when they claimed that he had made them work in unsafe conditions. NEW SENTENCE HW – SAT WORDS COLLECTED/DUE TOMORROW

11. SAT 70 Delude (verb) – to deceive the mind or judgment of Synonym – fool; mislead Antonym – to be honest or truthful Sentence – The con man deluded us into thinking he would make us rich, but we ended up broke. HW – NEW Sentence Turn in your notebooks!