Sat Vocab

Front 1

Abase

Back 1

to humiliate/degrade

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

Front 2

Abate

Back 2

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

Front 3

Abdicate

Back 3

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

Abberation

Back 4

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 5

Abet

Back 5

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

Front 6

Abhor

Back 6

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 7

Abject

Back 7

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

Front 8

Abnegation

Back 8

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

Front 9

Abrogate

Back 9

(v)
to abolish, usually by authority
(The Bill of Rights assures that the
government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)

Front 10

Abscond

Back 10

(v)
to sneak away and hide
(In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the
night with the secret plans.)

Front 11

Absolution

Back 11

(n)
freedom from blame, guilt, sin
(Once all the facts were known, the jury
gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)

Front 12

Accede

Back 12

(v)
to agree
(When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball
instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to
their request.)

Front 13

Accolade

Back 13

(noun)
high praise, special distinction
(Everyone offered accolades to Sam after
he won the Noble Prize.)

Front 14

Accost

Back 14

(v.)
to confront verbally
(Though Antoinette was normally quite calm, when the
waiter spilled soup on her for the fourth time in 15 minutes she stood up and accosted
the man.)

Front 15

Abjure

Back 15

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

Front 16

Accretion

Back 16

(n.)
slow growth in size or amount
(Stalactites are formed by the accretion of
minerals from the roofs of caves.)

Front 17

Acerbic

Back 17

(adj.)
biting, bitter in tone or taste
(Jill became extremely acerbic and began to
cruelly make fun of all her friends.)

Front 18

Acquiesce

Back 18

(v.)
to agree without protesting
(Though Mr. Correlli wanted to stay outside
and work in his garage, when his wife told him that he had better come in to dinner,
he acquiesced to her demands.)

Front 19

Acrimony

Back 19

(n.)
bitterness, discord
(Though they vowed that no girl would ever come
between them, Biff and Trevor could not keep acrimony from overwhelming their
friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely Teresa.)

Front 20

Acumen

Back 20

(n.)
keen insight
(Because of his mathematical acumen, Larry was able to figure
out in minutes problems that took other students hours.)