SAT word list 1

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1. Abduction the carrying away of someone by force
2. Academic relating to college or university
3. Acute (of illness) strong or painful; (of angles) less than 90
4. Advocate one who speaks for another; speak in favor of
5. Alleviate make not as bad
6. Analogy picture or story that helps explain an idea
7. Antonym word that has the opposite meaning to another word
8. Aristocracy upper class society
9. Atheism belief that there is no God
10. Azure light purplish-blue color
11. Belligerent at war; eager to fight
12. Bigamy being married to more than one person at once
13. Brandish carry about conspicuously
14. Bursary money awarded a student to help with studies
15. Carnage savage killing of many people
16. Charlatan imposter
17. Coherent making sense
18. Commotion outbreak of disorder
19. Comprise to be made of
20. Consign send to an address; (of baggage) temporarily hand over; commit forever
21. Contravene (of a regulation) go against
22. Converge come together at a single point or as a single entity
23. Courtesy politeness; an act of politeness; thing given free of charge by a business
24. Curator person in charge of looking after a collection (especially of a museum)
25. Defendant person who is accused of something
26. Denote indicate
27. Designate assign a person
28. Dilemma difficult choice between 2 alternatives
29. Disillusionment abandonment of belief in things as they appear to be
30. Disrupt cause disorder
31. Dormant not active but may be active in the future
32. Duration length of time
33. Efficient using resources such as time and money well
34. Emphasise give particular strength to
35. Entice persuade someone to do something
36. Equivocal deliberately unclear
37. Excavate dig
38. Explicit not hidden
39. Facetious rude
40. Financial to do with money
41. Foreman person in charge of a group of workers
42. Fracture break into pieces
43. Futile useless
44. Glimmer flash of light
45. Habitual commonly used
46. Hesitate pause before saying something or making a decision
47. Hybrid produced by cross-breeding
48. Idealize treat someone or something as perfect
49. Impeccable without fault
50. Inane full of meaningless words
51. Indelible cannot be removed
52. Infirmary hospital
53. Insinuate imply
54. Interrogate ask a series of probing questions
55. Involuntary not controlled by the will
56. Labyrinth complex maze
57. Legitimacy truth or validity of an act or theory
58. Linguistics study of language
59. Lucrative making a good profit
60. Manufacture put together in a mechanical way
61. Massacre mass killing
62. Memento reminder of past events
63. Mimic imitate something (especially for the purposes of humor)
64. Monastery residence of a religious community
65. Narrative writing or speech that tells a story
66. Negotiate discuss the terms of an agreement
67. Obituary notice in a newspaper of someone's death
68. Ominous seen as a sign of things to come
69. Paragon model of excellence
70. Patronize talk down to
71. Permeate pass or diffuse through
72. Pharmacy shop where medicines are sold; the art of dispensing medicines
73. Picturesque having beauty as if in a picture
74. Polytechnic school that teaches applied sciences and industrial skills
75. Precarious easily changed
76. Prejudice thinking ill of someone or against something without knowing the facts
77. Pretentious thinking highly of one's own merit
78. Prohibit issue a command or law forbidding something
79. Provoke call forth; try to start a fight with someone
80. Quarantine place in isolation in as a precaution against disease
81. Recuperate recover from illness or physical hardship
82. Relent cease an activity because pressure or persuasion by others
83. Resemblance looking like something else
84. Salvage rescue objects
85. Sediment dust etc that falls to the bottom of a river
86. Sociable liking to socialize, friendly
87. Squabble fight, usually over something that is not worth it
88. Stimulate make nerves go; make something happen
89. Supine lying face upward
90. Surrogate in place of another
91. Tendency being very likely to do something
92. Translucent allowing some light to pass through
93. Tremor small earthquake; involuntary shaking of the body
94. Trite (of remarks) used to often
95. Unanimity speaking as one
96. Urban of cities and towns
97. Velocity speed
98. Vigilant watchful
99. Vogue in fashion
100. Wily skilled in deception