SSAT Elementary Level Vocabulary
Abandon - answer To leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert
Acknowledge - answer To admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact
of
Adhesive - answer Coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance
Admire - answer To regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval
Aggravate - answer To make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil,
disorderly, or troublesome
Ail - answer To cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to
Aimless - answer Without aim; purposeless
Alarmed - answer A sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of
danger; apprehension; fright
Alter - answerTo make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like;
modify
Approximate - answerNear or approaching a certain state, condition, goal or standard
Assert - answerTo state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or
positively; affirm; aver
Assured - answerGuaranteed; sure; certain; secure
Astonish - answerTo fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze
Audible - answerCapable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard
Authentic - answerNot false or copied; genuine; real
Barrier - answerAnything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like
Benign - answerHaving a kindly disposition; gracious
Betray - answerTo deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty
, Bewilder - answerTo confuse or puzzle completely; perplex
Biased - answerHaving or showing bias or prejudice
Blunt - answerHaving an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp
Brittle - answerHaving hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily
with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass
Cautious - answerShowing, using, or characterized by caution
Censor - answerAn official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures,
radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams etc., for the purpose of suppressing
parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds
Conceal - answerTo hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from
sight
Condescending - answerShowing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity
or superiority
Confine - answerTo enclose within bounds; limit or restrict
Contented - answerSatisfied, content
Contradiction - answerThe act of contradicting; gain saying or opposition
Cunning - answerSkill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness;
guile
Debate - answerA discussion, as of public question in an assembly, involving opposing
viewpoints
Debt - answerSomething that is owed or that one is bound to pay or to perform for
another
Deceive - answerTo mislead by a false approached or statement; delude
Decline - answerTo withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc., refuse
Deficient - answerLacking some element or characteristic; defective
Delicate - answerFine in texture, quality, construction, etc.
Despair - answerLoss of hope; hopelessness
Abandon - answer To leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert
Acknowledge - answer To admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact
of
Adhesive - answer Coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance
Admire - answer To regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval
Aggravate - answer To make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil,
disorderly, or troublesome
Ail - answer To cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to
Aimless - answer Without aim; purposeless
Alarmed - answer A sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of
danger; apprehension; fright
Alter - answerTo make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like;
modify
Approximate - answerNear or approaching a certain state, condition, goal or standard
Assert - answerTo state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or
positively; affirm; aver
Assured - answerGuaranteed; sure; certain; secure
Astonish - answerTo fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder; amaze
Audible - answerCapable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard
Authentic - answerNot false or copied; genuine; real
Barrier - answerAnything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like
Benign - answerHaving a kindly disposition; gracious
Betray - answerTo deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty
, Bewilder - answerTo confuse or puzzle completely; perplex
Biased - answerHaving or showing bias or prejudice
Blunt - answerHaving an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp
Brittle - answerHaving hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily
with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass
Cautious - answerShowing, using, or characterized by caution
Censor - answerAn official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures,
radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams etc., for the purpose of suppressing
parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds
Conceal - answerTo hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from
sight
Condescending - answerShowing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity
or superiority
Confine - answerTo enclose within bounds; limit or restrict
Contented - answerSatisfied, content
Contradiction - answerThe act of contradicting; gain saying or opposition
Cunning - answerSkill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness;
guile
Debate - answerA discussion, as of public question in an assembly, involving opposing
viewpoints
Debt - answerSomething that is owed or that one is bound to pay or to perform for
another
Deceive - answerTo mislead by a false approached or statement; delude
Decline - answerTo withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc., refuse
Deficient - answerLacking some element or characteristic; defective
Delicate - answerFine in texture, quality, construction, etc.
Despair - answerLoss of hope; hopelessness
