SAT Vocabulary Questions and
answers
abhor ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abide ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) 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.)
abject ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and
breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)
abase ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown and abased, the deposed
leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)
abate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)
abdicate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership (When he realized that
the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)
abduct ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from
her happy home.)
aberration ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) 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.)
abet ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on
the inside to abet him.)
abjure ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil
policies of his wicked predecessor.)
abnegation ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, took
only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)
,abort ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abridge ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) 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.)
abrogate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill of Rights assures that the
government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)
abscond ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into
the night with the secret plans.)
absolution ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once all the facts were known, the
jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)
abstain ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abstruse ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in the class understood geometry
easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)
accede ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(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 acceded to their
request.)
accentuate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists agree that those people who are
happiest accentuate the positive in life.)
accessible ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) 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.)
acclaim ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) high praise (Greg's excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.)
accolade (n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the
Noble Prize.)
,accolade ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered accolades to Sam
after he won the Noble Prize.)
accommodating ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) 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.)
accord ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) an agreement (After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came
to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off the cost of Greenland.)
accost ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
accretion ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) slow growth in size or amount (Stalactites are formed by the accretion
of minerals from the roofs of caves.)
acerbic ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) biting, bitter in tone or taste (Jill became extremely acerbic and began
to cruelly make fun of all her friends.)
acquiesce ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
acrimony ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) 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.)
acumen ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) keen insight (Because of his mathematical acumen, Larry was able to
figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours.)
acute ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (adj.) 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.")
adamant ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) impervious, immovable, unyielding (Though public pressure was
intense, the President remained adamant about his proposal.)
, adept ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) extremely skilled (Tarzan was adept at jumping from tree to tree like a
monkey.)
adhere ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (n.) 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.)
admonish ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe's mother admonished him not to ruin
his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)
adorn ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to decorate (We adorned the tree with ornaments.)
adroit ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) skillful, dexterous (The adroit thief could pick someone's pocket without
attracting notice.)
adulation ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) extreme praise (Though the book was pretty good, Marcy did not
believe it deserved the adulation it received.)
adumbrate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to sketch out in a vague way (The coach adumbrated a game plan, but
none of the players knew precisely what to do.)
adverse ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) antagonistic, unfavorable, dangerous (Because of adverse conditions,
the hikers decided to give up trying to climb the mountain.)
advocate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) to argue in favor of something (Arnold advocated turning left at the
stop sign, even though everyone else thought we should turn right.) 2. (n.) a person who argues in
favor of something (In addition to wanting to turn left at every stop sign, Arnold was also a great
advocate of increasing national defense spending.)
aerial ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) somehow related to the air (We watched as the fighter planes conducted
aerial maneuvers.)
aesthetic ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty (We hired Susan as our
interior decorator because she has such a fine aesthetic sense.)
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abhor ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abide ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) 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.)
abject ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and
breaking her ankle, Eloise was abject.)
abase ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown and abased, the deposed
leader offered to bow down to his conqueror.)
abate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)
abdicate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to give up a position, usually one of leadership (When he realized that
the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)
abduct ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from
her happy home.)
aberration ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) 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.)
abet ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on
the inside to abet him.)
abjure ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil
policies of his wicked predecessor.)
abnegation ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, took
only cold showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)
,abort ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abridge ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) 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.)
abrogate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill of Rights assures that the
government cannot abrogate our right to a free press.)
abscond ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion, the super-spy absconded into
the night with the secret plans.)
absolution ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once all the facts were known, the
jury gave Angela absolution by giving a verdict of not guilty.)
abstain ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
abstruse ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in the class understood geometry
easily, but John found the subject abstruse.)
accede ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(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 acceded to their
request.)
accentuate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists agree that those people who are
happiest accentuate the positive in life.)
accessible ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) 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.)
acclaim ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) high praise (Greg's excellent poem won the acclaim of his friends.)
accolade (n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered accolades to Sam after he won the
Noble Prize.)
,accolade ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) high praise, special distinction (Everyone offered accolades to Sam
after he won the Noble Prize.)
accommodating ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) 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.)
accord ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) an agreement (After much negotiating, England and Iceland finally came
to a mutually beneficial accord about fishing rights off the cost of Greenland.)
accost ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
accretion ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) slow growth in size or amount (Stalactites are formed by the accretion
of minerals from the roofs of caves.)
acerbic ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) biting, bitter in tone or taste (Jill became extremely acerbic and began
to cruelly make fun of all her friends.)
acquiesce ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) 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.)
acrimony ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) 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.)
acumen ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) keen insight (Because of his mathematical acumen, Larry was able to
figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours.)
acute ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (adj.) 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.")
adamant ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) impervious, immovable, unyielding (Though public pressure was
intense, the President remained adamant about his proposal.)
, adept ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) extremely skilled (Tarzan was adept at jumping from tree to tree like a
monkey.)
adhere ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (n.) 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.)
admonish ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe's mother admonished him not to ruin
his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)
adorn ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to decorate (We adorned the tree with ornaments.)
adroit ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) skillful, dexterous (The adroit thief could pick someone's pocket without
attracting notice.)
adulation ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(n.) extreme praise (Though the book was pretty good, Marcy did not
believe it deserved the adulation it received.)
adumbrate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(v.) to sketch out in a vague way (The coach adumbrated a game plan, but
none of the players knew precisely what to do.)
adverse ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) antagonistic, unfavorable, dangerous (Because of adverse conditions,
the hikers decided to give up trying to climb the mountain.)
advocate ✔️✔️Correct Ans-1. (v.) to argue in favor of something (Arnold advocated turning left at the
stop sign, even though everyone else thought we should turn right.) 2. (n.) a person who argues in
favor of something (In addition to wanting to turn left at every stop sign, Arnold was also a great
advocate of increasing national defense spending.)
aerial ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) somehow related to the air (We watched as the fighter planes conducted
aerial maneuvers.)
aesthetic ✔️✔️Correct Ans-(adj.) artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty (We hired Susan as our
interior decorator because she has such a fine aesthetic sense.)
