SAT Vocab Book

Question 1

Benefactor (n.)

Answer 1

GOOD PEOPLE - 1/6

A person who offers financial or other kids of assistance.

Question 2

Mentor (n.)

DERIVATIVES
mentor (v.)
mentorship (n.)

Answer 2

GOOD PEOPLE - 2/6
A personal guide or teacher.

Ex. He was her friend and mentor until his death in 1915

Question 3

Constituent (n.)

DERIVATIVES
constituent (adj.)

Answer 3

GOOD PEOPLE 3/6

A group of people represented by someone.

Question 4

Philanthropist (n.)

Answer 4

GOOD PEOPLE 4/6

A person who generously donates money to a cause.

Question 5

Aesthete (n.)

Answer 5

GOOD PEOPLE 5/6

A person who loves art and beauty

Question 6

Utopian (n.)

DERIVATIVES
utopianism (n.)
utopian (adj.)

Answer 6

GOOD PEOPLE 6/6

A person who believes in the perfect society.

Question 7

Charlatan (n.)

DERIVATIVES
charlatanism (n.)
charlatanry (n.)

Answer 7

BAD PEOPLE 1/6

a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud

Question 8

Malefactor (n.)

DERIVATIVES
malefaction (n.)

Answer 8

BAD PEOPLE 2/6

a person who commits a crime, esp. to another.

Question 9

Curmudgeon (n.)

DERIVATIVES
curmudgeonliness (n.)
curmudgeonly (adj.)

Answer 9

BAD PEOPLE 3/6

A crude and mean spirited person.

Question 10

Mercenary (adj.)

DERIVATIVES
mercenary (n.)
mercenariness (n.)

Answer 10

BAD PEOPLE 4/6
(of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics

Ex. She’s nothing but a mercenary little gold digger.

Question 11

Iconoclast (n.)

Answer 11

BAD PEOPLE 5/6

A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.

Question 12

Dilettante (n.)

DERIVATIVES
dilettantish (adj.)
dilettantism (n.)

Answer 12

BAD PEOPLE 6/6
A person who does things on a superficial level (for show)

Ex. A dilettante approach to science

Question 13

Obstinate

DERIVATIVES
obstinately (adv.)

Answer 13

STUBBORN 1/6

Stubborn or difficult to convince.

Question 14

Obdurate

DERIVATIVES
obduracy (n.)
obdurately (adv.)
obdurateness (n.)

Answer 14

STUBBORN 2/6

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

Question 15

Dogmatic (adj.)

Answer 15

STUBBORN 3/6

Stubbornly adhering to false beliefs.

Question 16

Doctrinaire (n.)

Answer 16

STUBBORN 4/6

Stubbornly adhering to a belief or action.

Question 17

Intractable (adj.)

Answer 17

STUBBORN 5/6
Hard to control or deal with

Ex. Intractable economic problems.

Question 18

Incorrigible (n.)

DERIVATIVES
incorrigibility (n.)
incorrigibleness (n.)
incorrigibly (adv.)

Answer 18

STUBBORN 6/6
Not capable of being reformed, improved, or corrected

Ex. She’s an incorrigible flirt.