SAT Vocab List 1

Question 1

over; above; beyond the ordinary

Answer 1

hyper-

Question 2

a phrase or idea lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite

Answer 2

hackneyed

Question 3

the literal or primary meaning of a word

Answer 3

denotation

Question 4

to gather together or accumulate a large number of valuable materials or things over a period of time; to gather together in a crowd or group

Answer 4

amass

Question 5

out or away from; relating to the internet; for example e-money

Answer 5

e-

Question 6

to praise a person or their achievements formally and highly, esp. in a public context

Answer 6

laud

Question 7

a speech or test criticizing someone or something by means stated above; a caricature

Answer 7

lampoon
lampooner
lampoonist

Question 8

a person (male or female) who tells anecdotes or stories in a skillful and amusing manner

Answer 8

raconteur (male)

raconteuse (female)

Question 9

to do what someone else wants

Answer 9

acquiescent

Question 10

to accept or allow behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive to continue; to approve or sanction something with reluctance

Answer 10

condone

Question 11

to publicly criticize someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm

Answer 11

lampoon

Question 12

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning- often a cultural assocation

Answer 12

connotation

Question 13

to express a feeling or idea fluently and coherently, to pronounce something clearly and distinctly

Answer 13

articulate

Question 14

to make something greater by adding to it; to increase

Answer 14

augment
augmentation
augmented

Question 15

something external or outwardly directed

Answer 15

ef-

Question 16

to accept something reluctantly but without protest

Answer 16

acquiesce

Question 17

to come together and to form one mass or whole; to combine elements together into a whole

Answer 17

coalesce

Question 18

briefly and clearly expressed, especially something written or spoken; terse

Answer 18

succinct

Question 19

sparing in the use of words; brief

Answer 19

terse
terser
tersest
tersely
terseness

Question 20

high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people

Answer 20

bombast

bombastic

Question 21

to erase a mark from the surface

Answer 21

efface

Question 22

the action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area

Answer 22

dispersion

Question 23

an action, idea, or goal that deserves praise and commendation

Answer 23

lauded

laudable

Question 24

to basic cause, source, or origin of something; the essential substance or nature of something; a word or part of a word from which other words are derived by the prefix/suffix

Answer 24

root

Question 25

to express an idea or a feeling fluently and coherently; to pronounce something clearly and distinctly

Answer 25

articulate

Question 26

an element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning, such as ex-, non-, re-; a word, letter, or number, placed before another; a title such as Ms. used before someone’s name

Answer 26

prefix

Question 27

a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; the quality of being dull or trite

Answer 27

platitude

Question 28

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literary

Answer 28

hyperbole

Question 29

to leave the main subject temporarily in speech or in writing

Answer 29

digress
digression
digressive
digressively

Question 30

a person’s ability to speak fluently and coherently

Answer 30

articulate

Question 31

to spread or to disperse something, especially information wisely; to scatter; to spread throughout an organ or throughout the body

Answer 31

disseminate

Question 32

praise

Answer 32

laud

Question 33

to be of the same opinion; to agree with the same decision, opinion; to agree with the same decision, opinion, or finding; to occur or happen at the same time; to coincide

Answer 33

concur

concurrent

Question 34

under, beneath, less than ordinary

Answer 34

hypo-

Question 35

good; well; advantageous

Answer 35

eu-

Question 36

so lacking originality as to be obvious and boring

Answer 36

banal
banality
banally

Question 37

in the figurtive sense to make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous

Answer 37

effacement

Question 38

a polite word that takes place of a direct, shocking, or upsetting word; an artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking

Answer 38

euphemism

Question 39

a person’s writing style or a speech that contains very few words, terse. to the point

Answer 39

laconic

laconically

Question 40

an element added to the end of a word to form a new word, such as -action, -fy, -ing.

Answer 40

suffix

Question 41

to rebuker or to reprimand severely

Answer 41

chastise

Question 42

a person’s ability to speak fluently and coherently

Answer 42

articulate

Question 43

to distribute or to spread over a wide area; to go or to cause to go in different directions or to different destination; to cause gas, smoke, mist, or cloud to thin out and eventually disappear

Answer 43

disperse