psat vocab
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Psat Vocab . Abase. V. Lower, humiliate I will not abase myself by going to a base with you on the first date. . adulate. To flatter and praise so much it’s sickening. “Brad, dual eight hundreds on your math and critical reading SATs? You’re a god!” she adulated . Aesthetic. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Psat Vocab
Abase
• V. Lower, humiliateI will not abase myself by going to a base with you on the first date.
adulate
• To flatter and praise so much it’s sickening.• “Brad, dual eight hundreds on your math and
critical reading SATs? You’re a god!” she adulated.
Aesthetic
• Artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful.
As the tick was sucking blood from my arm, I squashed it. The dead insect was not aesthetically pleasing.
Awry
• Twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong• There is something awry in my bread; it is just
a rye seed.
begrudge
• To envy, to resent• To be holding a grudge for so long means that
you must begrudge me my happy life.
berate
• To scold severely. • If you don’t do A work, your teachers will
berate you (B-rate) you.
boisterous
• Rowdy• We have male cheerleaders at our school
When they get in front of a crowd, those boys stir us up until we’re boisterous.
brevity
• Briefness• When Janet had a 20 page paper due, but
wanted to go out, her friends suggested, “You can write your paper with great brevity and brave a D.”
cache
• Hiding place (pronounced cash)• The thieves stashed the cash in the cache.
cajole
• To coax• “Yes, you can Joel.” They cajoled him.
Callous
• Unfeeling, unsympthetic• Brian complained of the callus on his big toe,
but Meg remained callous
candor
• Frankness, candidness• Speaking with complete candor, Hansel, said
the wicked witch, I have chopped Gretel up and canned her.
dearth
• Scarcity (nothing to deal with death)• Because of Darth Vader, there was a dearth of
laughter on the Death Star.
Depraved
• Morally corrupt; debased, perverted• As a prank, the depraved criminal de-paved
the highway.
Derogate
• To detract, to take away• The effect of the spear protruding from Bob’s
forehead was to derogate from his usually good looking face.
disseminate
• To dispense objects such as seeds, newspapers, to distribute
• While making his stock boy walk the plank, the captain explained, “Dis seaman ate all of the supplies that he was supposed to disseminate.”
emaciated
• Excessively thin; weak• In May she ate it, but now it’s June and she’s
still emaciated.
emulate
• To imitate closely• When the tornado began, Dorothy called out,
“Aunty Em, you late. Emulate Toto and hurry up.”
epitome
• Something that perfectly represents and entire class of things; embodiment
• “You’re the epitome of stupidity,” she screamed after I spilled baloney dip all over her dress.
equivocal
• Capable of two interpretation; ambigous• Equi-equal• Vocal-voice• “A good meal from this cook is a rare treat,” is
an equivocal statement.
facetious
• Joking or teasing• She’s so facetious that you should not take
what she says at face value.
fawning
• Groveling; overly admiring• The hunter who killed Bambi’s mother should
have come back and made a fawning plea for forgiveness.
feasible
• Workable, plausible, possible• Homer’s idea of opening a hair salon for bald
people was not feasible-who would pay the $30 fee.
Forbearance
• Patience• He played dead with forbearance until the
four bears got antsy and went away.
futile
• Completely ineffective• The one –armed floor layer felt his work was
futile because he could lay only a few tiles a day.
Genial
• Friendly, affable
• Although Jean is always considerte, he was not genial to my mom.
Grandiose
• Excessively impressive, grand• Barbara Streisand has a grandiose nose.
Gregarious
• Adj, drawn to the company of others, sociable• Well, Greg, how hilarious, you at a singles
party; you are not gregarious .
Garrulous
• Adj talkative, words• Gary, Spongebob is so garrulous that his
guests can not get a word in edgewise.
Hackneyed
• Overused; trite• The plot of the movie The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre was hackneyed. It was just another horror movie about an axe murderer who hacked knees off.
Hallowed
• Holy, sacred• I was hanging out in a cemetery, but I didn’t
know I was on hollowed hallowed ground until I fell into a grave.
Haughty
• Proud; vain; arrogant He thinks he’s hot. He shouldn’t be so haughty.
Hiatus
• N. a beak or gap in duration or continuity.The hiatus in service should last two or three months, until the cable lines are repaired.
Hypothetical
• Supposed or assumed true, but unproven• It is hypothetical if the drug will work.
Iconoclastic
• Destroyer of tradition• The crown yelled “down with the iconoclast”
he answered with I cannot last.
Ignominious
• Dishonor, humiliating• He couldn’t bear the ignominy of getting a 100
on the PSAT.
Impeccable
• Flawless faultlessWoody is not an impeccable woodpecker; he is always making mistakes.
inept
• Incompetent • The inept astronomy student thought unicorns
live on Neptune.
Jubilant
• Extremely joyful, happy• The crowd was jubilant when the firefighter
saved the cat from the tree.
Juxtaposition
• N. the act of placing two things next to each other for comparison.
• The designer admired the juxtaposition of the yellow couch and green table.
Knavery
• Dishonest, mischievous dealingCan Avery joing the navy? Neverm he is always up to some kind of knavery.
Laceration
• A cut, tear• Alas, when Arthur ate pickled razor blades, he
lacerated his tongue.
Larceny
• Stealing • Stealing from the cartoonist who created The
Far Side is Larson-y