SAT Care List 19

Question 1

abet

Answer 1

to aid, help, encourage

Question 2

acumen

Answer 2

keen insight

Question 3

altercation

Answer 3

to dispute, fight

Question 4

annul

Answer 4

to make voice or invalid

Question 5

apocryphal

Answer 5

functions, false, wrong

Question 6

arable

Answer 6

suitable for growing crops

Question 7

battery

Answer 7

assault, beating

Question 8

bilk

Answer 8

to cheat, defraud

Question 9

canvas

Answer 9

a piece of cloth on which an artist paints

Question 10

capricious

Answer 10

subject to whim, fickle

Question 11

cavort

Answer 11

to leap about, behave boisterously

Question 12

clemency

Answer 12

mercy

Question 13

complement

Answer 13

to complete, make perfect

Question 14

congruity

Answer 14

the quality of being in agreement

Question 15

consonant

Answer 15

in harmony

Question 16

debunk

Answer 16

to expose the falseness of something

Question 17

deft

Answer 17

skillful, capable

Question 18

depravity

Answer 18

wickedness

Question 19

discursive

Answer 19

rambling, lacking order

Question 20

dispel

Answer 20

to drive away, scatter

Question 21

elated

Answer 21

overjoyed, thrilled

Question 22

encumber

Answer 22

to weigh down, burden

Question 23

fabricate

Answer 23

to make up, invent

Question 24

facade

Answer 24

the wall of a building

Question 25

facile

Answer 25

superficial, achieved with minimal thought or care, insincere

Question 26

fastidious

Answer 26

meticulous, demanding, having high an often unattainable standards

Question 27

grievous

Answer 27

injurious, hurtful, serious or grave in nature

Question 28

iconoclast

Answer 28

one who attacks common beliefs or institutions

Question 29

impinge

Answer 29

to impact, affect, make an impression

Question 30

impregnable

Answer 30

resistant to capture or penetration

Question 31

insolent

Answer 31

rude, arrogant, overbearing

Question 32

intractable

Answer 32

difficult to manipulate, unmanageable

Question 33

malediction

Answer 33

a curse

Question 34

moderate

Answer 34

not extreme

Question 35

mundane

Answer 35

concerned with the world rather than with heaven, commonplace

Question 36

nadir

Answer 36

the lowest point of something

Question 37

odious

Answer 37

instilling hatred or intense displeasure

Question 38

perfidious

Answer 38

disloyal, unfaithful

Question 39

pinnacle

Answer 39

the highest point

Question 40

promulgate

Answer 40

to proclaim, make known

Question 41

propitious

Answer 41

favorable

Question 42

rectitude

Answer 42

uprightness, extreme morality

Question 43

reprehensible

Answer 43

deserving rebuke

Question 44

repudiate

Answer 44

to reject, refuse to accept

Question 45

scrupulous

Answer 45

painstaking, careful

Question 46

spurious

Answer 46

false but designed to seem plausible

Question 47

travesty

Answer 47

a grossly inferior imitation

Question 48

tremulous

Answer 48

fearful

Question 49

usurp

Answer 49

to seize by force, take possession of without right

Question 50

vex

Answer 50

to confuse or annoy

Question 51

vitriolic

Answer 51

having a caustic quality

Question 52

winsome

Answer 52

charming, pleasing