SAT Vocab 1

Question 1

Abase

Answer 1

(v.) to lower, demean, degrade

Question 2

Acumen

Answer 2

(n.) keen insight

Question 3

Ameliorate

Answer 3

(v.) to improve, to make better

Question 4

Austere

Answer 4

(adj.) very bare, bleak, simple

Question 5

Brazen

Answer 5

(adj.) excessively bold, brash

Question 6

Cavort

Answer 6

(v.) to frolic, leap, prance

Question 7

Complicit

Answer 7

(adj.) being an accomplice in a wrongful art

Question 8

Cursory

Answer 8

(adj.) brief to the point of being superficial

Question 9

Dilapidated

Answer 9

(adj.) in state of disrepair

Question 10

Elucidate

Answer 10

(v.) to clarify

Question 11

Exacerbate

Answer 11

(v.) to make more violent, intense

Question 12

Fetter

Answer 12

(v.) to restrain, chain, tie

Question 13

Fortitude

Answer 13

(n.) strength, bravery

Question 14

Harrowing

Answer 14

(adj.) agonizing, distressing

Question 15

Inclement

Answer 15

(adj.) stormy, bad, severe

Question 16

Jubilant

Answer 16

(adj.) joyful, happy

Question 17

Limpid

Answer 17

(adj.) clear, easily understood

Question 18

Maudlin

Answer 18

(adj.) sentimental

Question 19

Mutability

Answer 19

(n.) capable of change

Question 20

Officious

Answer 20

(adj.) offering unwanted help or service

Question 21

Pertinacious

Answer 21

(adj.) stubbornly persistent, holding to a belief or position

Question 22

Portly

Answer 22

(adj.) fat, chubby, round

Question 23

Punctiluous

Answer 23

(adj.) eager to follow rules

Question 24

Redress

Answer 24

(v.) to set things right or remedy

Question 25

Retribution

Answer 25

(n.) vengeance, revenge, payback

Question 26

Scurrilous

Answer 26

(adj.) crude, vulgar

Question 27

Strenuous

Answer 27

(adj.) requiring tremendous strength or energy

Question 28

Taciturn

Answer 28

(adj.) not inclined to talk

Question 29

Travesty

Answer 29

(n.) a grossly inferior imitation

Question 30

Veneer

Answer 30

(n.) a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, facade