SAT 2.0

Question 1

abase

Answer 1

to humiliate, degrade

(After being overthrown and abased, the deposed
leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)

Question 2

abate

Answer 2

to reduce, lessen
(The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)

Question 3

abdicate

Answer 3

to give up a position, usually one of leadership
(When he realized that the
revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)

Question 4

abduct

Answer 4

to kidnap, take by force
(The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her
happy home.)

Question 5

aberration

Answer 5

something that differs from the norm

(In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won
the World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox
have not won a World Series since.)

Question 6

abet

Answer 6

to aid, help, encourage

(The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the
inside to abet him.)

Question 7

abhor

Answer 7

to hate, detest

(Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head
when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)

Question 8

abide

Answer 8

to put up with
(Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided
to abide by it.)
2. (v.) to remain
(Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather
throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)

Question 9

abject

Answer 9

wretched, pitiful
(After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and
breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)

Question 10

abjure

Answer 10

to reject, renounce
(To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil
policies of his wicked predecessor.)

Question 11

abnegation

Answer 11

) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, took only
cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)

Question 12

abort

Answer 12

to give up on a half-finished project or effort (After they ran out of food, the
men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.)

Question 13

abridge

Answer 13

to cut down, shorten
(The publisher thought the dictionary was too long
and abridged it.)
2. (adj.) shortened
(Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the
abridged version is longer than most normal books.)

Question 14

abrogate

Answer 14

to abolish, usually by authority
(The Bill of Rights assures that the
government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)

Question 15

abscond

Answer 15

to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into the
night with the secret plans.)

Question 16

absolution

Answer 16

freedom from blame, guilt, sin
(Once all the facts were known, the jury
gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)

Question 17

abstain

Answer 17

to freely choose not to commit an action (Everyone demanded that Angus
put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and abstained.)

Question 18

abstruse

Answer 18

hard to comprehend
(Everyone else in the class understood geometry
easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)

Question 19

accede

Answer 19

to agree
(When the class asked the teacher whether they could play baseball
instead of learn grammar they expected him to refuse, but instead he acceded to
their request.)

Question 20

accentuate

Answer 20

to stress, highlight
(Psychologists agree that those people who are
happiest accentuate the positive in life.)

Question 21

accolade

Answer 21

) high praise, special distinction
(Everyone offered accolades to Sam after
he won the Noble Prize.)

Question 21

accessible

Answer 21

obtainable, reachable
(After studying with SparkNotes and getting a great score on the SAT, Marlena happily realized that her goal of getting into an
Ivy-League college was accessible.)

Question 22

acclaim

Answer 22

high praise
(Greg’s excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.)

Question 23

accommodating

Answer 23

helpful, obliging, polite
(Though the apartment was not big
enough for three people, Arnold, Mark, and Zebulon were all friends and were
accommodating to each other.)

Question 24

accord

Answer 24

an agreement (After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off the cost of Greenland.)

Question 25

accretion

Answer 25

slow growth in size or amount (Stalactites are formed by the accretion of minerals from the roofs of caves.)

Question 26

accost

Answer 26

to confront verbally (Though Antoinette was normally quite calm, when the waiter spilled soup on her for the fourth time in 15 minutes she stood up and accosted the man.)

Question 27

acquiesce

Answer 27

to agree without protesting (Though Mr. Correlli wanted to stay outside and work in his garage, when his wife told him that he had better come in to dinner, he acquiesced to her demands.

Question 28

acerbic

Answer 28

biting, bitter in tone or taste (Jill became extremely acerbic and began to cruelly make fun of all her friends.)

Question 29

acrimony

Answer 29

bitterness, discord (Though they vowed that no girl would ever come between them, Biff and Trevor could not keep acrimony from overwhelming their friendship after they both fell in love with the lovely Teresa.)

Question 30

acumen

Answer 30

) keen insight (Because of his mathematical acumen, Larry was able to figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours.)

Question 31

acute

Answer 31

sharp, severe (Arnold could not walk because the pain in his foot was so acute.) 2. (adj.) having keen insight (Because she was so acute, Libby instantly figured out how the magician pulled off his “magic.”)

Question 32

adamant

Answer 32

impervious, immovable, unyielding (Though public pressure was intense, the President remained adamant about his proposal.)

Question 33

adept

Answer 33

extremely skilled (Tarzan was adept at jumping from tree to tree like a monkey.)

Question 34

adhere

Answer 34

to stick to something (We adhered the poster to the wall with tape.) 2. (n.)to follow devoutly (He adhered to the dictates of his religion without question.)

Question 35

admonish

Answer 35

to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe’s mother admonished him not to ruin his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)

Question 36

adorn

Answer 36

to decorate (We adorned the tree with ornaments.)

Question 37

adroit

Answer 37

skillful, dexterous (The adroit thief could pick someone’s pocket without attracting notice.)

Question 38

adulation

Answer 38

extreme praise (Though the book was pretty good, Marcy did not believe it deserved the adulation it received.)

Question 39

adumbrate

Answer 39

to sketch out in a vague way (The coach adumbrated a game plan, but none of the players knew precisely what to do.)