SAT Vocab 3

Question 1

Concession

Answer 1

n- an act of granting or yielding, a privilege, such as the right to use land for a purpose.

Question 2

Decimate

Answer 2

v- to destroy or kill a large part of; to eliminate one out of ten; n- decimation

Question 3

Disperse

Answer 3

v- to break up and scatter or spread; to dispel

Question 4

Evade

Answer 4

v- to escape or avoid something, especially by using deceit or cleverness; to avoid doing something.

Question 5

Flagrant

Answer 5

adj- glaringly bad, notorious; outrageous; adv- fragrantly

Question 6

Insolence

Answer 6

n- quality or instance of being disrespectful and insulting; impudence; adj- insolent

Question 7

Purge

Answer 7

v- to remove undesirable elements from; to rid; to remove by cleansing.

Question 8

Sadistic

Answer 8

adj- having an unnatural love of cruelty to others; extremely cruel to persons or animals.

Question 9

Opalescent

Answer 9

adj- iridescent; having the many-colored qualities of an opal.

Question 10

Bipartisan

Answer 10

adj- representing or composed of members of two parties.

Question 11

Affable

Answer 11

adj- courteous and agreeable in conversation, adv- affably.

Question 12

Annihilate

Answer 12

v- to destroy completely; to vanquish; to make ineffectual or unimportant; n- annihilation