SAT Vocab

Question 1

Ambiance

Answer 1

Noun
1. the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc.,
particularly of an environment or milieu
2. that which surrounds or encompasses; environment.
atmosphere, surroundings, setting

Question 2

Amenable

Answer 2

Adjective
1. ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable;
submissive; tractable tractable
2. liable to be called to account; answerable; legally responsible
Agreeable, responsive, susceptible, docile

Question 3

Amplify

Answer 3

Verb
1. to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend.
2. to expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by expanding.
Intensify, magnify, strengthen, heighten

Question 4

Antecedent

Answer 4

Adiective
1. Preceding, prior
Noun
2. a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
Former, past, precedent

Question 5

Anterior

Answer 5

Adiective
1. situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior)
2. going before in time or sequence; preceding; earlier
Preceding, previous, former

Question 6

Appalling

Answer 6

Adjective
1. Causing dismay or horror
Alarming, astounding, awful, horrific

Question 7

Aptitude

Answer 7

Noun
1. capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something;
talent
2. readiness or quickness in learning; intelligence
Disposition, proclivity, proneness, predilection

Question 8

Archaic

Answer 8

Adjective
1. marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated
2. (of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels
Ancient, obsolete, old-fashioned

Question 9

Arduous

Answer 9

Adiective
1. requiring great exertion;
laborious; difficult
2. requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous
Formidable, rigorous, tiring, trying

Question 10

Artisan

Answer 10

Noun
1.a person skilled in a utilitarian art, trade, or craft, especially one requiring manual skill; a craftsperson.
2. a person or company that makes a high-quality or distinctive product in small quantities, usually by hand or using traditional methods

Adiective
1.pertaining to an artisan or the product of an artisan
Builder, carpenter, craftsman, professional

Question 11

Askew

Answer 11

Adverb
1. To one side; out of line; in a crooked position; awry
2. with disapproval, scorn, contempt, etc.; disdainfully
Adiective crooked; awry
Awry, off-center, askance

Question 12

Aspire

Answer 12

Verb
1. to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive
Pursue, strive, seek

Question 13

Assuage

Answer 13

Verb
1. to make milder or less severe;
alleviate; ease; mitigate
2. to appease; satisfy; sate
Alleviate, appease, lessen, soften, temper

Question 14

Astute

Answer 14

Adiective
1. keenly perceptive or discerning;
sagacious
2. shrewd; cunning
Insightful, intelligent, keen

Question 15

Asunder

Answer 15

Adjective, Adverb
1. into separate parts; in or into pieces
2. apart or widely separated
Disconnected, disjoined, divided

Question 16

Atrophy

Answer 16

Noun
1. Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
2. degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse
Verb
3.to affect with or undergo atrophy
Degeneration, decline, deterioration

Question 17

Atypical

Answer 17

Adiective
1. not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal
Abnormal, divergent, odd, peculiar

Question 18

Austere

Answer 18

Adiective
1. severe in manner or
appearance; uncompromising;
strict; forbidding
2. rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent
Exacting, forbidding, formal, rigid, sober

Question 19

Badger

Answer 19

Verb
1. to harass or urge persistently;
pester; nag
Annoy, harass, hound, tease, torment

Question 20

Ballistics

Answer 20

Noun
1. the science or study of the motion of projectiles, as bullets, shells, or bombs.
2. the art or science of designing projectiles for maximum flight performance.

Question 21

Balm

Answer 21

Noun
1. Anything that heals, soothes, or mitigates pain
ointment, salve, application

Question 22

Beget

Answer 22

Verb
(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring). to cause; produce as an effect
Bring about, sire, cause, produce

Question 23

Beleaguer

Answer 23

Verb
1. to surround with military forces.
2. to surround or beset, as with troubles.
Annoy, plague, bother

Question 24

Bereave

Answer 24

Verb
1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of)
2. to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of)
dispossess, leave, strip

Question 25

Beset

Answer 25

Verb
1. to attack on all sides; assail.
2. to trouble greatly or grievously;
to afflict with mental or physical suffering; harass
3. to surround; hem in
4. to set or place upon; bestud
5. Nautical. to surround (a vessel) by ice, so that control of the helm is lost.
Besiege, overrun, perplex, surround

Question 26

Bizarre

Answer 26

Adiective
1. markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements;
outrageously or whimsically strange; odd
Comical, curious, extraordinary, odd

Question 27

Blather

Answer 27

Noun
1. foolish, voluble talk
Verb
2. to talk or utter foolishly; babble
Babble, chatter, nonsense, prattle

Question 28

Bleak

Answer 28

Adiective
1. bare, desolate, and often windswept
2. cold and piercing; raw
Desolate, austere, dreary, grim

Question 29

Bludgeon

Answer 29

Noun
1. a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
Verb
2. to strike or knock down with a bludgeon.
3. to force into something; coerce;
bully
Batter, strike, beat, clobber

Question 30

Bucolic

Answer 30

Adjective
1. of or relating to shepherds;
pastoral.
2. of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.
Noun
3. a pastoral poem.
Agrarian, pastoral, arcadian