Unit 4 SAT Vocabulary

Question 0

Access

Answer 0

N

• the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, use; admittance
• an attack or onset, as of disease
• a sudden and strong emotional outburst

Question 1

Abscond

Answer 1

V

-to depart in a sudden and secret manner, esp. To avoid capture and legal prosecution

Question 2

Anarchy

Answer 2

N

• a state of society without government or law
• confusion and disorder

Question 3

Arduous

Answer 3

Adj

-requiring great strength

Question 4

Auspicious

Answer 4

Adj

-promising success; propitious, opportune

Question 5

Biased

Answer 5

Adj
-favoring one side unduly or prejudice

N
-an oblique or diagonal line of direction, esp. across a woven fabric

Question 6

Daunt

Answer 6

V

-to overcome with fear; intimidate

Question 7

Disentangle

Answer 7

V

-to free or become from entanglement; untangle; extricate(free from)

Question 8

Fated

Answer 8

Adj

• subject to, guided by, or predetermined by fate; destined
• fortune

Question 9

Hoodwink

Answer 9

V

-to deceive or trick

Question 10

Inanimate

Answer 10

Adj

-not animate; lifeless

Question 11

Incinerate

Answer 11

V

-to burn or reduce to ashes; cremate

Question 12

Intrepid

Answer 12

Adj

-resolutely fearless; dauntless; very brave, unshakable

Question 13

Larceny

Answer 13

N

-the act of stealing goods from another with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use

Question 14

Pliant

Answer 14

Adj

-easy to bend; flexible; supple; adaptable; easily influenced

Question 15

Pompous

Answer 15

Adj

-characterized by an ostentatious(show off) display or importance

Question 16

Precipice

Answer 16

N

• a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face
• a situation of great peril

Question 17

Rectify

Answer 17

V

• to make right; remedy; correct
• to determine the length of (a curve)

Question 18

Reprieve

Answer 18

V

-to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person)

Question 19

Revile

Answer 19

V

-to assail with contemptuous(scornful) language; address or speak of abusivelyp