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SAT VOCABULARY EXAM WITH CORRECT AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
abide - answer-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.)
abase - answer-(v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being
overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow
down to his conqueror.)
abate - answer-(v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for
a while, then abated.)
abdicate - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers
abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.)
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aberration - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded
only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.)
abhor - answer-(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.)
abject - answer-(adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her
money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was
abject.)
abjure - answer-(v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty,
the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked
predecessor.)
abnegation - answer-(n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy
man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally
followed other practices of abnegation.)
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abort - answer-(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 - answer-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 - answer-(v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill
of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our
right to a free press.)
abscond - answer-(v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion,
the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.)
absolution - answer-(n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once
all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by
giving a verdict of not guilty.)
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abstain - answer-(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 - answer-(adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in
the class understood geometry easily, but John found the
subject abstruse.)
accede - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists
agree that those people who are happiest accentuate the
positive in life.)
accessible - answer-(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.)
SAT VOCABULARY EXAM WITH CORRECT AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
abide - answer-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.)
abase - answer-(v.) to humiliate, degrade (After being
overthrown and abased, the deposed leader offered to bow
down to his conqueror.)
abate - answer-(v.) to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for
a while, then abated.)
abdicate - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to kidnap, take by force (The evildoers
abducted the fairy princess from her happy home.)
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aberration - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded
only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.)
abhor - answer-(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.)
abject - answer-(adj.) wretched, pitiful (After losing all her
money, falling into a puddle, and breaking her ankle, Eloise was
abject.)
abjure - answer-(v.) to reject, renounce (To prove his honesty,
the President abjured the evil policies of his wicked
predecessor.)
abnegation - answer-(n.) denial of comfort to oneself (The holy
man slept on the floor, took only cold showers, and generally
followed other practices of abnegation.)
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abort - answer-(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 - answer-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 - answer-(v.) to abolish, usually by authority (The Bill
of Rights assures that the government cannot abrogate our
right to a free press.)
abscond - answer-(v.) to sneak away and hide (In the confusion,
the super-spy absconded into the night with the secret plans.)
absolution - answer-(n.) freedom from blame, guilt, sin (Once
all the facts were known, the jury gave Angela absolution by
giving a verdict of not guilty.)
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abstain - answer-(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 - answer-(adj.) hard to comprehend (Everyone else in
the class understood geometry easily, but John found the
subject abstruse.)
accede - answer-(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 - answer-(v.) to stress, highlight (Psychologists
agree that those people who are happiest accentuate the
positive in life.)
accessible - answer-(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.)
