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5000 SAT vocabulary words. 2022 review. Download for easy passing. abase - ✔✔v. To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. abbess - ✔✔n. The lady superior of a nunnery. ... abbey - ✔✔n. The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns. abbot - ✔✔n. The superior of a community of monks. abdicate - ✔✔v. To give up (royal power or the like). abdomen - ✔✔n. In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly. abdominal - ✔✔n. Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen. abduction - ✔✔n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally. abed - ✔✔adv. In bed; on a bed. aberration - ✔✔n. Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course. abet - ✔✔v. To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense). abeyance - ✔✔n. A state of suspension or temporary inaction. abhorrence - ✔✔n. The act of detesting extremely. abhorrent - ✔✔adj. Very repugnant; hateful. abidance - ✔✔n. An abiding. abject - ✔✔adj. Sunk to a low condition. abjure - ✔✔v. To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath. able-bodied - ✔✔adj. Competent for physical service. ablution - ✔✔n. A washing or cleansing, especially of the body. abnegate - ✔✔v. To renounce (a right or privilege). abnormal - ✔✔adj. Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard. abominable - ✔✔adj. Very hateful. abominate - ✔✔v. To hate violently. abomination - ✔✔n. A very detestable act or practice. aboriginal - ✔✔adj. Primitive; unsophisticated. aborigines - ✔✔n. The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country. aboveboard - ✔✔adv. & adj. Without concealment, fraud, or trickery. abrade - ✔✔v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction. abrasion - ✔✔n. That which is rubbed off. abridge - ✔✔v. To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles. abridgment - ✔✔n. A condensed form as of a book or play. abrogate - ✔✔v. To abolish, repeal. abrupt - ✔✔adj. Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break. abscess - ✔✔n. A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body. abscission - ✔✔n. The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation. abscond - ✔✔v. To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest. absence - ✔✔n. The fact of not being present or available. absent-minded - ✔✔adj. Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business. absolution - ✔✔n. Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses. absolve - ✔✔v. To free from sin or its penalties. absorb - ✔✔v. To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water. absorption - ✔✔n. The act or process of absorbing. abstain - ✔✔v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something). abstemious - ✔✔adj. Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food. abstinence - ✔✔n. Self denial. abstruse - ✔✔adj. Dealing with matters difficult to be understood. absurd - ✔✔adj. Inconsistent with reason or common sense. abundant - ✔✔adj. Plentiful. abusive - ✔✔adj. Employing harsh words or ill treatment. abut - ✔✔v. To touch at the end or boundary line. abyss - ✔✔n. Bottomless gulf. academic - ✔✔adj. Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university. academician - ✔✔n. A member of an academy of literature, art, or science. academy - ✔✔n. Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught. accede - ✔✔v. To agree. accelerate - ✔✔v. To move faster. accept - ✔✔v. To take when offered. access - ✔✔n. A way of approach or entrance; passage. accessible - ✔✔adj. Approachable. accession - ✔✔n. Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government. accessory - ✔✔n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent. acclaim - ✔✔v. To utter with a shout. accommodate - ✔✔v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor. accompaniment - ✔✔n. A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part. accompanist - ✔✔n. One who or that which accompanies. accompany - ✔✔v. To go with, or be associated with, as a companion. accomplice - ✔✔n. An associate in wrong-doing. accomplish - ✔✔v. To bring to pass. accordion - ✔✔n. A portable free-reed musical instrument. accost - ✔✔v. To speak to. account - ✔✔n. A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions. accouter - ✔✔v. To dress. accredit - ✔✔v. To give credit or authority to. accumulate - ✔✔v. To become greater in quantity or number. accuracy - ✔✔n. Exactness. accurate - ✔✔adj. Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard. accursed - ✔✔adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune. accusation - ✔✔n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error. accusatory - ✔✔adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation. accuse - ✔✔v. To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error. accustom - ✔✔v. To make familiar by use. acerbity - ✔✔n. Sourness, with bitterness and astringency. acetate - ✔✔n. A salt of acetic acid. acetic - ✔✔adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar. ache - ✔✔v. To be in pain or distress. Achillean - ✔✔adj. Invulnerable. achromatic - ✔✔adj. Colorless, acid - ✔✔n. A sour substance. acidify - ✔✔v. To change into acid. acknowledge - ✔✔v. To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of. acknowledgment - ✔✔n. Recognition. acme - ✔✔n. The highest point, or summit. acoustic - ✔✔adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing. acquaint - ✔✔v. To make familiar or conversant. acquiesce - ✔✔v. To comply; submit. acquiescence - ✔✔n. Passive consent. acquire - ✔✔v. To get as one's own. acquisition - ✔✔n. Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor. acquit - ✔✔v. To free or clear, as from accusation. acquittal - ✔✔n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action. acquittance - ✔✔n. Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility. acreage - ✔✔n. Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land. acrid - ✔✔adj. Harshly pungent or bitter. acrimonious - ✔✔adj. Full of bitterness. acrimony - ✔✔n. Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper. actionable - ✔✔adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words. actuality - ✔✔n. Any reality. actuary - ✔✔n. An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums. actuate - ✔✔v. To move or incite to action. acumen - ✔✔n. Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination. acute - ✔✔adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment. adamant - ✔✔n. Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability. addendum - ✔✔n. Something added, or to be added. addle - ✔✔v. To make inefficient or worthless; muddle. adduce - ✔✔v. To bring forward or name for consideration. adhere - ✔✔v. To stick fast or together. adherence - ✔✔n. Attachment. adherent - ✔✔adj. Clinging or sticking fast. adhesion - ✔✔n. The state of being attached or joined. adieu - ✔✔inter. Good-by; farewell. adjacency - ✔✔n. The state of being adjacent. adjacent - ✔✔n. That which is near or bordering upon. adjudge - ✔✔v. To award or bestow by formal decision. adjunct - ✔✔n. Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place. adjuration - ✔✔n. A vehement appeal. adjutant - ✔✔adj. Auxiliary. administrator - ✔✔n. One who manages affairs of any kind. admissible - ✔✔adj. Having the right or privilege of entry. admittance - ✔✔n. Entrance, or the right or permission to enter. admonish - ✔✔v. To warn of a fault. admonition - ✔✔n. Gentle reproof. ado - ✔✔n. unnecessary activity or ceremony. adoration - ✔✔n. Profound devotion. adroit - ✔✔adj. Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers. adulterant - ✔✔n. An adulterating substance. adulterate - ✔✔v. To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients. adumbrate - ✔✔v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem. advent - ✔✔n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage. adverse - ✔✔adj. Opposing or opposed. adversity - ✔✔n. Misfortune. advert - ✔✔v. To refer incidentally. advertiser - ✔✔n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers. advisory - ✔✔adj. Not mandatory. advocacy - ✔✔n. The act of pleading a cause. advocate - ✔✔n. One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court. aerial - ✔✔adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air. aeronaut - ✔✔n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist. aeronautics - ✔✔n. the art or practice of flying aircraft aerostat - ✔✔n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air. aerostatics - ✔✔n. The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical - ✔✔properties. affable - ✔✔adj. Easy to approach. affect - ✔✔v. To act upon affectation - ✔✔n. A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt. affiliate - ✔✔n. Some auxiliary person or thing. affirmative - ✔✔adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue. affix - ✔✔v. To fasten. affluence - ✔✔n. A profuse or abundant supply of riches. affront - ✔✔n. An open insult or indignity. afire - ✔✔adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively. afoot - ✔✔adv. In progress. aforesaid - ✔✔adj. Said in a preceding part or before. afresh - ✔✔adv. Once more, after rest or interval. afterthought - ✔✔n. A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time. agglomerate - ✔✔v. To pile or heap together. aggrandize - ✔✔v. To cause to appear greatly. aggravate - ✔✔v. To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome. aggravation - ✔✔n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc. aggregate - ✔✔n. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something. aggress - ✔✔v. To make the first attack. aggression - ✔✔n. An unprovoked attack. aggrieve - ✔✔v. To give grief or sorrow to. aghast - ✔✔adj. Struck with terror and amazement. agile - ✔✔adj. Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally. agitate - ✔✔v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts). agrarian - ✔✔adj. Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land. aide-de-camp - ✔✔n. An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general. ailment - ✔✔n. Slight sickness. airy - ✔✔adj. Delicate, ethereal. akin - ✔✔adj. Of similar nature or qualities. alabaster - ✔✔n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum. alacrity - ✔✔n. Cheerful willingness. albeit - ✔✔conj. Even though. albino - ✔✔n. A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris. album - ✔✔n. A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like. alchemy - ✔✔n. Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold. alcohol - ✔✔n. A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste. alcoholism - ✔✔n. A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages. alcove - ✔✔n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. alder - ✔✔n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family. alderman - ✔✔n. A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions. aldermanship - ✔✔n. The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman. alias - ✔✔n. An assumed name. alien - ✔✔n. One who owes allegiance to a foreign government. alienable - ✔✔adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands. alienate - ✔✔v. To cause to turn away. alienation - ✔✔n. Estrangement. aliment - ✔✔n. That which nourishes. alkali - ✔✔n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc. allay - ✔✔v. To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate. allege - ✔✔v. To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court. allegory - ✔✔n. The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness. alleviate - ✔✔v. To make less burdensome or less hard to bear. alley - ✔✔n. A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like. alliance - ✔✔n. Any combination or union for some common purpose. allot - ✔✔v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person. allotment - ✔✔n. Portion. allude - ✔✔v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion. allusion - ✔✔n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it. alluvion - ✔✔n. Flood. ally - ✔✔n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness. almanac - ✔✔n. A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information. aloof - ✔✔adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. altar - ✔✔n. Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned. alter - ✔✔v. To make change in. alteration - ✔✔n. Change or modification. altercate - ✔✔v. To contend angrily or zealously in words. alternate - ✔✔n. One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other. alternative - ✔✔n. Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else. altitude - ✔✔n. Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea. alto - ✔✔n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part. altruism - ✔✔n. Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest. altruist - ✔✔n. One who advocates or practices altruism. amalgam - ✔✔n. An alloy or union of mercury with another metal. amalgamate - ✔✔v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body. amateur - ✔✔adj. Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession. amatory - ✔✔adj. Designed to excite love. ambidextrous - ✔✔adj. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. ambiguous - ✔✔adj. Having a double meaning. ambitious - ✔✔adj. Eagerly desirous and aspiring. ambrosial - ✔✔adj. Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious. ambulance - ✔✔n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded. ambulate - ✔✔v. To walk about ambush - ✔✔n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy. ameliorate - ✔✔v. To relieve, as from pain or hardship amenable - ✔✔adj. Willing and ready to submit. Americanism - ✔✔n. A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States. amicable - ✔✔adj. Done in a friendly spirit. amity - ✔✔n. Friendship. amorous - ✔✔adj. Having a propensity for falling in love. amorphous - ✔✔adj. Without determinate shape. amour - ✔✔n. A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature. ampere - ✔✔n. The practical unit of electric-current strength. ampersand - ✔✔n. The character &; and. amphibious - ✔✔adj. Living both on land and in water. [Show More]

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