SAT Vocabs #1401-1450

Question 0

Pedagogy

Answer 0

The art or profession of teaching.

Question 1

Preponderance

Answer 1

Superiority in weight, force, importance or influence.

Question 2

Intuition

Answer 2

Instinctive knowledge, acquired without conscious reason.

Question 3

Brandish

Answer 3

To shake or wave, as of a weapon; to show threateningly.

Question 4

Contiguous

Answer 4

Sharing a common boundary; adjoining.

Question 5

Altruistic

Answer 5

Unselfish; benevolent; caring more for others than oneself.

Question 6

Complacent

Answer 6

Too pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

Question 7

Endow

Answer 7

To provide with material goods, talents, or qualities.

Question 8

Lambaste

Answer 8

To scold or criticize harshly; to beat or whip severely.

Question 9

Disposition

Answer 9

Personality; temperament.

Question 10

Attrition

Answer 10

Gradual reduction.

Question 11

Imminent

Answer 11

Impending; threatening; likely to happen.

Question 12

Stifle

Answer 12

To interrupt or cut off; to keep in or hold back; to suffocate or smother.

Question 13

Avid

Answer 13

Having a passionate desire.

Question 14

Adjunct

Answer 14

Something attached to another but not essential to it.

Attached to something but not am essential part of it.

Question 15

Abhor

Answer 15

To detest; to shrink from in disgust.

Question 16

Flummox

Answer 16

To confuse or perplex.

Question 17

Smirk

Answer 17

To smile in a self-satisfied or artificial way.

Question 18

Feral

Answer 18

Existing in a wild or untamed state.

Question 19

Captious

Answer 19

Tending to notice and point out trivial mistakes or faults; intended to trap or confuse (as in a captious question).

Question 20

Emanate

Answer 20

To send forth; to come forth.

Question 21

Increment

Answer 21

An increase in quantity.

To increase.

Question 22

Encompass

Answer 22

To surround; to include.

Question 23

Skullduggery

Answer 23

Clever deception or trickery.

Question 24

Obdurate

Answer 24

Not easily moved to pity or sympathy.

Question 25

Baroque

Answer 25

Fantastically over-decorated; gaudily ornate.

Question 26

Impel

Answer 26

To push something into motion.

Question 27

Relegate

Answer 27

To assign to an obscure place or condition; to send away.

Question 28

Debris

Answer 28

Bits and pieces of rubbish.

Question 29

Colloquy

Answer 29

Conversation, esp. a formal one.

Question 30

Diminution

Answer 30

A decrease or diminishing.

Question 31

Abstemious

Answer 31

Moderate, esp. in eating and drinking.

Question 32

Apathy

Answer 32

Lack of emotion; lack of concern, esp. to matters of general importance.

Question 33

Brusque

Answer 33

Abrupt and curt of manner.

Question 34

Egalitarian

Answer 34

Of the belief that all people should have equal rights.

Question 35

Coiffure

Answer 35

A hairstyle.

Question 36

Avarice

Answer 36

Excessive desire for wealth.

Question 37

Earnest

Answer 37

Showing deep sincerity; serious.

Question 38

Fortify

Answer 38

To make stronger.

Question 39

Commend

Answer 39

To express approval of.

Question 40

Contrive

Answer 40

To plan with cleverness; to invent or fabricate; to plan with evil intent; to cause by scheming.

Question 41

Deficient

Answer 41

Lacking an essential quality; inadequate in amount or degree.

Question 42

Excise

Answer 42

To remove by or as if by cutting.

Question 43

Banter

Answer 43

Good-humored teasing.

Question 44

Cataclysm

Answer 44

A disastrous event, usually one that brings about great change.

Question 45

Prevail

Answer 45

To triumph over; to be or become most common.

Question 46

Subjective

Answer 46

Based on personal experience or feeling, not on external evidence.

Question 47

Become

Answer 47

To be appropriate or suitable to; to look good with.

Question 48

Arrogate

Answer 48

To claim for one’s self unjustly.

Question 49

Foster

Answer 49

To bring up or nurture.