SAT word list 4

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1. Abrupt sudden; with sudden stops
2. Acknowledge let someone know something has been received; admit to be true
3. Adjunct something added on to something else but not an essential part of it
4. Ailment illness
5. Amorous full of romantic love
6. Antenatal before birth
7. Appraise rate the performance of
8. Aspirations hopes and dreams
9. Aurora colored streaks of light in the sky caused by charged particles
10. Banal devoid of freshness by being used or done too often
11. Bereaved of a person who has recently lost a family member or friend
12. Bolster improve support for
13. Brooch a decorative pin
14. Candid (of speech) straightforward and honest
15. Centenary 100th anniversary
16. Coalition alliance
17. Colloquial used in informal speech
18. Competence ability to do something responsibly
19. Confiscate take away
20. Conscience feeling about things that are right and wrong
21. Contemporary of the present time; of the same time period
22. Convene meet together in a formal way
23. Cosmetic product designed improve a persons looks; to do with the way things look
24. Criteria conditions by which something is judged
25. Decisive determining the outcome
26. Deficiency lack of something needed
27. Deride treat with contempt
28. Dexterity skill
29. Discern judge
30. Displace cause something to move from its usual place
31. Dogma belief accepted for ages and not challenged or thought logically
32. Drastic (of actions used to prevent or cure something) extreme
33. Efface remove by rubbing off
34. Eloquent expressing yourself clearly
35. Enigma difficult mysterious puzzle
36. Epilogue part of a book or play which is at the end; closing talk
37. Evade get away from
38. Exhilarate exciting in a good way
39. Extravagance unnecessary spending
40. Fickle likely to change suddenly
41. Flippant not showing the proper respect
42. Formidable very strong
43. Frivolous not serious
44. Geology study of rocks
45. Grievance something that is held against someone
46. Heinous wicked
47. Hostile full of hatred
48. Icon (in computers) small picture that represents a file; religious painting
49. Immaculate really tidy; without anything out of place
50. Impromptu not rehearsed
51. Incidentally by the way
52. Inept clumsy
53. Injunction formal command, (especially to prevent someone from doing something)
54. Intercede try to reconcile differences between two parties
55. Introversion not going out
56. Judicial of courts or judges; using careful judgment
57. Legion a large military unit; association of ex-servicemen
58. Lenient not strict, merciful
59. Levity lack of seriousness
60. Litigation legal proceedings
61. Mandatory necessary under law or regulation
62. Meager of a hardly sufficient amount
63. Mileage number of miles a vehicle will travel per gallon of petrol used
64. Missive written message to a person or organization
65. Momentum product of a bodies mass and its velocity
66. Mystic beyond ordinary understanding
67. Nautical to do with ships and sailing
68. Novice someone new to a particular activity
69. Obsolete old and useless
70. Parable story designed to convey a moral message
71. Parody humorous sketch or song designed to make fun of another song or film etc.
72. Perceive sense
73. Physiology branch of biology dealing with the processes of an organism
74. Pneumatic to do with air
75. Potent powerful
76. Precipice steep cliff
77. Preoccupation an obsessive interest
78. Prerequisite something that is necessary to have beforehand
79. Procrastinate put off doing things that should be done
80. Protocol proper things to be done
81. Psychopathic having a severe mental illness
82. Ratify express approval
83. Rejuvenate give new life to
84. Reprimand telling off
85. Revoke take away
86. Satire making fun of something in a sophisticated way
87. Significance meaning
88. Spinster unmarried woman
89. Subtle difficult to detect; tactful
90. Suppress stop or put down by force
91. Temerity fearless daring
92. Tranquility peace
93. Transplant move from one place to another (especially of human organs or plants)
94. Triplicate (of documents) in 3 copies
95. Typical having the qualities that are commonplace or average for a specific category of people or things
96. Ultimate one that there is none better than
97. Unique being the only one of its kind
98. Versatile able to suit different purposes
99. Vitality feeling of being alive,energy
100. Vulnerable easily hurt