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MasterVocab 101-150
SAT words
Question | Answer |
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augury | omen; sign |
august | majestic; venerable |
auspicious | favorable; successful; prosperous |
austere | severely moral and strict; simple and plain |
auxiliary | helping; supporting |
aver | affirm; assert; prove; justify |
aversion to | strong; dislike |
avid | eager; greedy |
avow | admit; declare openly |
bacchanalian | orgy |
bait | to persecute |
baleful | harmful; ominous; causing evil |
balk | obstacle; purposely to get on the way of |
baneful | causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive |
barrage | artificial; obstacle built across a river |
barren (ща) | not good enough; unable to have young ones without value |
bask | enjoy warmth and light |
beatify | to bless; make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
bedizen | to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner |
belabor | beat hard |
bellicose | belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
belligerent | (person, nation) waging war |
benediction | something that promotes goodness or well-being |
benefactor | person who has given help |
benevolence | wish or activity in doing good |
benign | kind and gentle; mild (climate) |
bequest | arrangement to give smth at death |
berate | scold sharply |
bereft | rob or dispossess of smth (material) |
bewilder | puzzle; confuse |
bigot | stubborn; narrow-minded person |
bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask |
bilk | to cheat |
blandishment | flattery coaxing |
blandness | polite manner; comforting uninteresting |
blatant | noisy and rough |
blithe | cheerful; casual; carefree |
bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
bogus | sham; counterfeit; not genuine |
boisterous | loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint |
bolster up | give greatly needed support |
boorish | crude; offensive; rude |
brash | hasty; rush; cheeky; saucy |
brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) |
brazen | made of brass |
breach | opening; broken place; breaking |
brittle | easily broken |
broach | bring up; announce; begin to talk about |
brook | to tolerate, endure |
buoyant | able to float light-hearted |