SAT Vocabulary #4

Question 1

Disapprobation

Answer 1

The act or states of disapproving: the state of being disapproved

Question 2

Discern

Answer 2

To see, hear, or notice with difficulty or effort

Question 3

Discourse

Answer 3

The use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas

Question 4

Disingenuous

Answer 4

Not truly honest or sincere, giving false appearance of being honest or sincere

Question 5

Disparage

Answer 5

To lower rank or reputation

Question 6

Dispensation

Answer 6

Permission to break a law or an official promise you have made, release from a rule, vow, or oath

Question 7

Dissembling

Answer 7

To hide under a false appearance

Question 8

Disseminate

Answer 8

To spread abroad as though sowing seed

Question 9

Dogmatic

Answer 9

Expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are certainly correct and cannot be doubted

Question 10

Dubious

Answer 10

Unsure or uncertain, feeling doubt about something

Question 11

Duplicity

Answer 11

Dishonest behavior that is meant to trick someone

Question 12

Eclectic

Answer 12

Including things taken from many different sources

Question 13

Effrontery

Answer 13

A very confident attitude or way of behaving that is shocking or rude

Question 14

Egregious

Answer 14

Conspicuously bad

Question 15

Elocutionist

Answer 15

The study of how to speak clearly and in a way that is effective and socially acceptable

Question 16

Elongate

Answer 16

To make longer or to grow longer

Question 17

Emulate

Answer 17

To strive to equal or excel

Question 18

Encroach

Answer 18

To gradually move or go into an area that is beyond the usual or desired limits

Question 19

Enigmatic

Answer 19

Full of mystery or difficult to understand

Question 20

Enmity

Answer 20

A very deep unfriendly feeling

Question 21

Entailment

Answer 21

To have as a part, step, or result

Question 22

Ephemeral

Answer 22

Lasting a very short time

Question 23

Epiphany

Answer 23

A moment in which you are suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way

Question 24

Epistolary

Answer 24

Of or relating to a letter, suitable to a letter

Question 25

Epitaph

Answer 25

Something written or said in memory of a dead person, especially, words written on a gravestone