Sat Vocabulary 1

Front 1

(v.) to humiliate, degrade

Back 1

abase

Hint 1

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

Front 2

(v.) to reduce, lessen

Back 2

abate

Hint 2

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

Front 3

(v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership

Back 3

abdicate

Hint 3

(When he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

Front 4

(v.) to kidnap, take by force

Back 4

abduct

Hint 4

(The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.)

Front 5

(n.) something that differs from the norm

Back 5

aberration

Hint 5

(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

(v.) to aid, help, encourage

Back 6

abet

Hint 6

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

Front 7

(v.) to hate, detest

Back 7

abhor

Hint 7

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

Front 8

1. (v.) to put up with
2. (v.) to remain

Back 8

abide

Hint 8

1.(Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.)
2. (Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)

Front 9

(adj.) wretched, pitiful

Back 9

abject

Hint 9

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

Front 10

(v.) to reject, renounce

Back 10

abjure

Hint 10

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

Front 11

(n.) denial of comfort to oneself

Back 11

abnegation

Hint 11

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

Front 12

(v.) to give up on a half-finished project or effort

Back 12

abort

Hint 12

(After they ran out of food, the men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.)

Front 13

1. (v.) to cut down, shorten
2. (adj.) shortened

Back 13

abridge

Hint 13

1.(The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and abridged it.)
2.(Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the abridged version is longer than most normal books.)

Front 14

(v.) to abolish, usually by authority

Back 14

abrogate

Hint 14

(The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)

Front 15

(v.) to sneak away and hide

Back 15

abscond

Hint 15

(In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.)