Sat Vocab 1

Front 1

Abase

Back 1

(v.)
to humiliate, degrade
(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed
leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)

Front 2

Abate

Back 2

(v.)
to reduce, lessen
(The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)

Front 3

Abdicate

Back 3

(v.)
to give up a position, usually one of leadership
(When he realized that the
revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

Front 4

Abduct

Back 4

(v.)
to kidnap, take by force
(The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her
happy home.)

Front 5

Aberration

Back 5

(n.)
something that differs from the norm
(In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won
the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox
have not won a World Series since.)

Front 6

Abet

Back 6

(v.)
to aid, help, encourage
(The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the
inside to abet him.)

Front 7

Abhor

Back 7

(v.)
to hate, detest
(Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head
when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)

Front 8

Abject

Back 8

(adj.)
wretched, pitiful
(After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and
breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)

Front 9

Abjure

Back 9

(v.)
to reject, renounce
(To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil
policies of his wicked predecessor.)

Front 10

Abnegation

Back 10

(n.)
denial of comfort to oneself
(The holy man slept on the floor, took only
cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)