SAT List 1 Extended Definition
Catherine Vernon
September 9th, 2010
English Pre-IB I
Mr. Knight
Period: 4A
1. Alienate
a. to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed
b. verb (-ate)
c. alienator (n)
d. alien, estrange, disaffect, disgruntle, sour
e. reconcile, befriend
f. When Celia’s friends learned of her bad temper they began to (alienate) her.
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2. Elated
a. marked by high spirits
b. adjective (-ed)
c. elatedness (n), elatedly (adv.)
d. ecstatic, elevated, enrapt, enraptured, entranced, euphoric
e. depressed, unhappy, glum, doleful
f. When he broke off from the kiss, the (elated) young girl smiled exuberantly.
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3. Epigram
a. a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying
b. noun
c. epigrammatism (n), epigrammatist (n)
d. adage, aphorism, apothegm, byword
e. (none)
f. Benjamin Franklin's famous (epigram), “Remember that time is money”.
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4. Fatalistic
a. a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them; also : a belief in or attitude determined by this doctrine
b. Adjective (-ic)
c. Fatalism (n), fatalistically (adv.), fatalist (n)
d. glum, hopeless, melancholy, pessimistic
e. confident, optimistic, trusting
f. She was (fatalistic) about the nearing year; she believed 2012 would be the year of the apocalypse.
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5. Lackadaisical
a. lacking life, spirit, or zest
b. Adjective (-ical)
c. Lackadaisically (adv.)
d. enervated, listless, languid, languishing, languorous, limp, spiritless
e. ambitious, animated, energetic, enterprising, motivated
f. His teachers did not approve of his (lackadaisical) approach to homework and therefore gave him poor grades.
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6. Licentious
a. lacking legal or moral restraints; especially : disregarding sexual restraints
b. Adjective (-ous)
c. Licentiousness (n), licentiously (adv.)
d. concupiscent, goatish, horny, hot, hypersexual
e. frigid, undersexed, moral, chaste
f. The moralist disagreed with the highly (licentious) sexual undertones in the media.
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7. Numismatist
a. the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (as medals)
b. Noun (-ist)
c. Numismatic (n)
d. Coin collector, numismatologist
e. (none)
f. He considered himself an amateur (numismatist) due to his small collection of antique coins.
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8. Obtrude
a. to force or impose (as oneself or one's ideas) without warrant or request
b. verb
c. obtruding (v), obtruded (v), obtrude (n)
d. interlope, intermeddle, intrude
e. avoid, dodge, allow
f. Please keep your opinions to yourself and don’t (obtrude) unto our conversation.
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9. Paucity
a. smallness of number
b. Noun (-ity)
c. (None)
d. scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
e. abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence
f. A (paucity) of useful answers to the problem of traffic congestion at rush hour make the commute to work difficult.
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10. Pensive
a. musingly or dreamily thoughtful
b. adjective (-ive)
c. pensively (adv.), pensiveness (n)
d. ruminant, ruminative, contemplative
e. unreflective, concentrate, aware
f. The (pensive) child stared unaware at his shoe.
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11. Amalgamate
a. to unite in or as if in an amalgam; especially : to merge into a single body
b. Verb (-ate)
c. amalgamator (v), amalgamation (n), amalgamated (v)
d. blend, combine, comingle, commingle, commix, composite, concrete
e. break down, break up, separate
f. She liked to amalgamate different genres of music and once created a pop-rock crossover of her two favorite bands.
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12. Antiquated
a. outmoded or discredited by reason of age : being out of style or fashion
b. adjective (-ed)
c. antique (n), antiquatedly (adv.)
d. obsolete, archaic, dated
e. stylish, new, vogue
f. (Antiquated) methods of farming such as swidden agriculture are useless and inefficient in today’s world.
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13. Beleaguer
a. To besiege, trouble, or harass
b. Verb (-er)
c. Beleaguerment (n), beleaguering (v), beleaguered (v)
d. blockade, invest, leaguer
e. soothe, gratify, aid
f. Why does the Schwan’s man like to beleaguer and annoy me, it’s like I’m being attacked.
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14. Caricature
a. exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics
b. Noun (-ure)
c. Caricatural (adj.), caricaturist (n)
d. mockery, cartoon, farce, joke, parody, sham, travesty
e. meiosis, understatement, proportionate
f. His (caricature) of his mother yelling made us all laugh at how annoying he made her sound.
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15. Dally
a. to waste time
b. Verb
c. Dallying (v), dallied (v), dallier (n)
d. Linger, dawdle, frolic
e. dash, hasten, efficient
f. When the class would (dally) and not quickly seat themselves the teacher would get angry.
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16. Demented
a. suffering from or exhibiting cognitive dementia, mad, insane
b. Adjective (-ed)
c. Dementedly (adv.), dementedness (n)
d. nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko, wacky
e. balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound,
f. Most of the patients in the asylum were (demented).
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17. Felonious
a. of, relating to, or having the nature of a felony
b. Adjective (-ious)
c. Feloniously (adv.), feloniousness (n)
d. criminal, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, unlawful, wrongful
e. lawful, legal, legitimate
f. He knew it was (felonious) to decide to steal the shirt but peer pressure from his friends made him succumb.
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18. Gorge
a. to eat greedily or to repletion; also : to partake of something in large amounts
b. Verb
c. Gorging (v), gorged (v), gorger (n)
d. Cram, glut, sate, stuff
e. Savor, relish
f. She wanted to hang out with her friends so she would quickly (gorge) on her reading assignment without fully comprehending it.
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19. Hone
a. to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
b. Transitive Verb
c. Honed (v), honing (v)
d. Sharpen, file, acuminate
e. Blunt, dull, thicken
f. I went to (hone) my pencil with the sharpener because the lead had broken.
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20. Opiate
a. a drug (as morphine or codeine) containing or derived from opium and tending to induce sleep and alleviate pain
b. Noun (-ate)
c. Opioid (n), opium (n)
d. anesthetic, anodyne, narcotic
e. (none)
f. Many believe television is an (opiate) to the masses, drugging them into a hypnotic state.
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