most Common sAt Vocabulary Words Test

Prefix, Root, and Suffix Challenge• Part Eighteen •

____________________________________DIRECTIONS: Read the vocabulary words below, followed by their basic definition. Below each word, fill out any and all prefixes, roots,

or suffixes found within each vocabulary word to test your knowledge of the most commonly used words in the SAT exam.

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1. ABSTRACT: a summary (noun), to remove (verb)

2. ACHILLES' HEEL: : a weakness

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3. ADULATION: : excessive praise or flattery

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4. ALOFT: : up in the air, high

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5. ANALOGY: : similarity or comparison

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6. APOCRYPHAL: doubtful, not authentic

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7. ARBITRARY: partial, biased

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8. ASTRINGENT: substance that contractsblood vessels or shrinks tissues

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9. AUGUR: to predict

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10. BAWDY: indecent, humorously obscene

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11. BETROTHED: : engaged, pledged to marry

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19. CONDESCEND: to lower oneself to an inferior's level

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12. BLEAK: : unsheltered, gloomy

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20. CONSOLIDATE: to combine, to make or become solid

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13. BOURGEOISIE: : middle class

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21. COSMIC: pertaining to the universe, vast

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14. CANON: rule, law, standard

15. CARRION: : decaying flesh

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16. CHASTISE: : to punish, to purify

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17. COHERENT: : logically connected, consistent

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18. COMPASSION: : pity, sympathy

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22. CRUX: the essential part

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23. DECIPHER: decode, figure out the meaning of

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24. DEMAGOGUE: a popular leader who appeals to the emotions

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25. DEPLORE: to regret

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26. DEVIOUS: sly, underhand

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27. DISINTER: to uncover, to dig up

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35. EXPEDITE: to speed up, to make easy

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28. DISSUADE: : to advise or urge against

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36. FATALISTIC: believing that all thingsin life are inevitable

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29. DOWNTRODDEN: : trampled on, suppressed

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37. FETTER: to confine, to put into chains

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30. EFFETE: worn-out, barren

31. EMBRYONIC: : undeveloped, in an early stage

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32. ENTOURAGE: : a group of personalattendants

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33. ERR: to make a mistake

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34. EXACT: : accurate (adjective), to demandor to require (verb)

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38. FRAILTY: a weakness, a defect

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39. FRUITION: fulfillment, realization

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40. GARGANTUAN: gigantic, huge

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41. GENESIS: origin, beginning

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42. GRANARY: a storehouse for grain

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43. GUSTO: hearty enjoyment

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51. INADVERTENT: unintentional

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44. HARBINGER: : an omen or sign

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52. INEVITABLE: unavoidable, sure to happen

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45. HERBIVOROUS : : feeding on vegetation

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53. INSATIABLE: unable to be satisfied

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46. HOLOCAUST: complete destruction

47. HUSBANDRY: : the science of raising crops, careful management

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48. ILLITERATE: : uneducated

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49. IMMACULATE: : spotless, pure

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50. IMPEDIMENT:: a barrier, an obstruction

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54. INTRINSIC: essential, pertaining toa necessary part of something

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55. IRREVOCABLE: final, unchangeable

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56. JOCOSE: joking, humorous

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57. KINETIC: pertaining to motion

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58. LATERAL: to the side, sideways

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59. LICENTIOUS: : lawless, immoral, lewd

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67. NEUTRALIZE: to make ineffective, to counteract

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60. LUDICROUS: : ridiculous

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68. NIGGLE: to spend excessive time on unimportant details

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61. MALCONTENT: : one who is dissatisfied

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69. OBSESS: to control the thoughts orfeelings of a person

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62. MAUL: to injure, to handle roughly

63. MIRAGE: : an apparition or illusion

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64. MONASTIC: : pertaining to a monk, self-denying

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65. MUDDLE: : to confuse, to mix up

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66. MYOPIC: : nearsighted, having a limited point of view

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70. OMEN: an event that indicates the future

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71. OSTENSIBLE: apparent, conspicuous

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72. PARAMETER: boundary, limits

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73. PATRIMONY: inherited right, heritage

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74. PERIPHERY: outside boundary, unimportant aspects of a subject

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75. PISCINE: : of or like a fish

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83. RENAL: pertaining to the kidneys

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76. PREDICATE: : to declare, to assert

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84. RESIDUE: that which remains

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77. PROD: : to urge, to poke or jab

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85. RHETORICAL: concerned with merestyle or effect

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78. PROSCRIBE: to denounce, exile

79. PUNDIT: : a learned man, an expert or authority

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80. QUASI: : resembling, seeming

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81. RATIONALIZE: : to make an excuse for

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82. RECOUNT: : to tell or relate, as a story

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86. SAGACIOUS: wise

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87. SEDENTARY: sitting most of the time

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88. SLATTERN: an untidy woman

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89. SERPENTINE: winding

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90. SOVEREIGN: a monarch or othersupreme ruler

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91. STILTED: : artificially formal

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94. TACTICS: plan, method, strategy

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92. SUBVERSIVE: : tending to overthrowor undermine

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95. TENDENTIOUS: biased, favoring a cause

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93. SURFEIT: : an excessive amount

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96. TORPID: inactive, sluggish

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97. TRENCHANT: keen or incisive, vigorous, effective

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98. UNSEEMLY: not in good taste

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99. VAGRANT: : a homeless person, awanderer

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102. VOLATILE: unstable, explosive

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100. VIABLE: : capable of living, workable,practicable

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103. WASTREL: a spendthrift, one who wastes

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101. VISCOUS: : sticky

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104. WAX: to grow in size or intensity

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105. WILY: tricky, sly

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106. WIZENED: withered, shriveled

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