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SAT Words 2
of 1000
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abhor | (v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to _____ the sport.) |
| abide | 1. (v.) to put up with (Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to _____ by it.) 2. (v) to remain (Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.) |
| abject | (adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was _____.) |
| abjure | (v. ) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President _____d the evil policies of his wicked predecessor.) |
| abnegation | (n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, only took cold showers, and generally followed other practices of ______.) |
| abort | (v.) to give up on a half-finished project or effort (After they ran out of food, the men, attempting to sail around the world, had to _____ and go home.) |
| abridge | 1. (v.) to cut down, shorten (The publisher thought the dictionary was too long and _____d it.) 2. (adj.) shortened (Moby-Dick is such a long book that even the _____d version was longer than most books.) |
| abrogate | (v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill of Rights assures that the government cannot _____ our right of a free press.) |
| abscond | (v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the super-spy _____d into the night with the secret plan.) |
| absolution | (v.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela ______ by giving a verdict of not guilty.) |
| abstain | (v.) to freely choose no to commit an action (Everyone demanded that Argus put on the kilt, but he did not want to do it and ______.) |
| abstruse | (adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in the class understood geometry easily, but John found the subject ______.) |
| accede | (v.) 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 _____d to their request.) |
| accentuate | (v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists agree that those people who are happiest _____ the positive in life.) |
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