SAT Vocabulary Exam
Instructions: - Read each question carefully. - The answer is provided after
the word “ANSWER”. - Bold the answers for clarity. - Total questions: full
vocabulary list.
1. Affect - ANSWER: to take on, assume; affected (adj.) - behaved in
an artificial/pretentious way
2. Afford - ANSWER: Grant (e.g. an opportunity)
3. Appreciate - ANSWER: To take into account, recognize the merits
of, OR to increase in value
4. Appropriate - ANSWER: to take from, steal
5. Arrest - ANSWER: to stop
6. Assume - ANSWER: to take responsibility for, acquire (e.g. to
assume a new position)
7. Austerity - ANSWER: extreme financial restraint, eliminating all
excess spending
8. Badger (v.) - ANSWER: to pester / annoy
9. Bent - ANSWER: liking or preference for
10. Capacity - ANSWER: ability
11. Chance (v.) - ANSWER: to attempt
12. Check - ANSWER: to control
13. Coin (v.) - ANSWER: to invent
14. Compromise (v.) - ANSWER: to endanger or make vulnerable
15. Constitution - ANSWER: build
16. Conviction - ANSWER: strong belief; noun form of convinced
17. Couch (v.) - ANSWER: to hide
18. Currency - ANSWER: acceptance, approval (of an idea)
19. Discriminating - ANSWER: able to make fine distinctions
20. Dispatch - ANSWER: speed, efficiency (e.g. She completed
the task promptly and with great dispatch)
21. Doctor (v.) - ANSWER: to tamper with, alter
22. Economy - ANSWER: thrift (e.g. a writer who has an
economical style is one who uses few words)
23. Embroider - ANSWER: to falsify, make up stories about
24. Execute - ANSWER: to carry out
25. Exploit - ANSWER: make use of, take advantage for (does
not carry a negative connotation)
26. Facility - ANSWER: ability to do something easily (e.g. a
facility for learning languages)
, 27. Foil - ANSWER: to put a stop to (e.g. to foil a robbery) OR a
secondary character in a play/novel
28. Grave/Gravity - ANSWER: serious(ness)
29. Grill (v.) - ANSWER: to question intensely and repeatedly
30. Hamper - ANSWER: to get in the way of; hinder
31. Harbor - ANSWER: to possess, hold (e.g. harbor a belief)
32. Hobble - ANSWER: to prevent, impede
33. Mint - ANSWER: to produce money, or as an adjective =
perfect, like new
34. Pedestrian - ANSWER: unremarkable, uninteresting
35. Plastic / Plasticity - ANSWER: able to be changed, malleable
(e.g. brain plasticity)
36. Provoke - ANSWER: elicit (e.g. a reaction)
37. Qualify - ANSWER: to provide more information or detail
about
38. Realize - ANSWER: to achieve (a goal)
39. Reconcile - ANSWER: to bring together opposing or
contradictory ideas
40. Relate / Relay - ANSWER: to pass on information, give an
account of (a story)
41. Reservations - ANSWER: misgivings
42. Reserve - ANSWER: to hold off on (e.g. to reserve
judgement)
43. Ruffled - ANSWER: flustered, nonplussed (unruffled = calm)
44. Sap (v.) - ANSWER: to drain (e.g. of energy)
45. Scrap (v.) - ANSWER: to eliminate
46. Shelve / Table (v.) - ANSWER: to reject or discard (e.g. an
idea or proposal)
47. Sound - ANSWER: firm, stable, reliable, valid (e.g. a sound
argument)
48. Spare, Severe - ANSWER: plain, unadorned
49. Static - ANSWER: unchanging (i.e. in a state of stasis)
50. Store (n.) - ANSWER: reserve
51. Sustain (v.) - ANSWER: to withstand
52. Temper - ANSWER: to moderate, make less harsh
53. Train - ANSWER: to fixate on (e.g. one’s eyes on something)
54. Uniform - ANSWER: constant, unvarying
55. Unqualified - ANSWER: absolute
56. Upset (v.) - ANSWER: to interfere with an expected outcome
57. Want - ANSWER: lack
58. Yield - ANSWER: to reveal (e.g. an experiment yields
results)
Instructions: - Read each question carefully. - The answer is provided after
the word “ANSWER”. - Bold the answers for clarity. - Total questions: full
vocabulary list.
1. Affect - ANSWER: to take on, assume; affected (adj.) - behaved in
an artificial/pretentious way
2. Afford - ANSWER: Grant (e.g. an opportunity)
3. Appreciate - ANSWER: To take into account, recognize the merits
of, OR to increase in value
4. Appropriate - ANSWER: to take from, steal
5. Arrest - ANSWER: to stop
6. Assume - ANSWER: to take responsibility for, acquire (e.g. to
assume a new position)
7. Austerity - ANSWER: extreme financial restraint, eliminating all
excess spending
8. Badger (v.) - ANSWER: to pester / annoy
9. Bent - ANSWER: liking or preference for
10. Capacity - ANSWER: ability
11. Chance (v.) - ANSWER: to attempt
12. Check - ANSWER: to control
13. Coin (v.) - ANSWER: to invent
14. Compromise (v.) - ANSWER: to endanger or make vulnerable
15. Constitution - ANSWER: build
16. Conviction - ANSWER: strong belief; noun form of convinced
17. Couch (v.) - ANSWER: to hide
18. Currency - ANSWER: acceptance, approval (of an idea)
19. Discriminating - ANSWER: able to make fine distinctions
20. Dispatch - ANSWER: speed, efficiency (e.g. She completed
the task promptly and with great dispatch)
21. Doctor (v.) - ANSWER: to tamper with, alter
22. Economy - ANSWER: thrift (e.g. a writer who has an
economical style is one who uses few words)
23. Embroider - ANSWER: to falsify, make up stories about
24. Execute - ANSWER: to carry out
25. Exploit - ANSWER: make use of, take advantage for (does
not carry a negative connotation)
26. Facility - ANSWER: ability to do something easily (e.g. a
facility for learning languages)
, 27. Foil - ANSWER: to put a stop to (e.g. to foil a robbery) OR a
secondary character in a play/novel
28. Grave/Gravity - ANSWER: serious(ness)
29. Grill (v.) - ANSWER: to question intensely and repeatedly
30. Hamper - ANSWER: to get in the way of; hinder
31. Harbor - ANSWER: to possess, hold (e.g. harbor a belief)
32. Hobble - ANSWER: to prevent, impede
33. Mint - ANSWER: to produce money, or as an adjective =
perfect, like new
34. Pedestrian - ANSWER: unremarkable, uninteresting
35. Plastic / Plasticity - ANSWER: able to be changed, malleable
(e.g. brain plasticity)
36. Provoke - ANSWER: elicit (e.g. a reaction)
37. Qualify - ANSWER: to provide more information or detail
about
38. Realize - ANSWER: to achieve (a goal)
39. Reconcile - ANSWER: to bring together opposing or
contradictory ideas
40. Relate / Relay - ANSWER: to pass on information, give an
account of (a story)
41. Reservations - ANSWER: misgivings
42. Reserve - ANSWER: to hold off on (e.g. to reserve
judgement)
43. Ruffled - ANSWER: flustered, nonplussed (unruffled = calm)
44. Sap (v.) - ANSWER: to drain (e.g. of energy)
45. Scrap (v.) - ANSWER: to eliminate
46. Shelve / Table (v.) - ANSWER: to reject or discard (e.g. an
idea or proposal)
47. Sound - ANSWER: firm, stable, reliable, valid (e.g. a sound
argument)
48. Spare, Severe - ANSWER: plain, unadorned
49. Static - ANSWER: unchanging (i.e. in a state of stasis)
50. Store (n.) - ANSWER: reserve
51. Sustain (v.) - ANSWER: to withstand
52. Temper - ANSWER: to moderate, make less harsh
53. Train - ANSWER: to fixate on (e.g. one’s eyes on something)
54. Uniform - ANSWER: constant, unvarying
55. Unqualified - ANSWER: absolute
56. Upset (v.) - ANSWER: to interfere with an expected outcome
57. Want - ANSWER: lack
58. Yield - ANSWER: to reveal (e.g. an experiment yields
results)