VII. More Common SAT Words 3/12/11

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SAT Vocabulary.

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	Side A	Side B
1	accomplice	n. accessory; one who assists in a crime
2	agnostic	adj. believing that the existence of God can neither be proved nor disproved; noncommittal
3	apprehension	n.worry or unease
4	authoritarian	n. demanding unquestioning obedience
5	baleful	adj. armful or threatening harm or evil
6	boor	n. someone who is impolite and rude
7	carnage	n. massacre; slaughter; bloodshed
8	comprehensive	adj. complete; covering broadly and all-inclusively
9	converse	v. to engage in spoken exchange of ideas
10	crucial	of great importance
11	decorum	n. polite behavior
12	denounce	v. to speak out against; to accuse publicly
13	desist	v. to cease; to stop
14	disenchant	v. to free from false belief
15	divest	v. to strip, as of clothes; to deprive as of property or rights
16	droll	adj amusing in an odd or wry way
17	embrace	v. to hold or enclose, as with ones arms; to unclude as part of something larger
18	enthrall	v. t hold as if in a spell; to captivate
19	epic.	n. a long narrative poem, in a dignified style, celebrating the deeds of a hero
20	evacuate	v. to remove the contents of; to discharge; to withdraw
21	guile	n. slyness in dealing with others
22	headstrong	adj. showing determination
23	lax	adj. careless; lacking firmness
24	mania	n. an excessively intense desire
25	masonry	n. stonework or brickwork
26	melodramatic	adj. exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental
27	misapprehension	n. a misunderstanding
28	noxious	adj. harmful to health or the mind
29	oasis	n. a fertile place in a desert due to the presence of water; any place or thing offering relief...
30	offset	v. to balance or counteract