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SAT Prep Vocabulary #7 & #8Slide2

Extol (v):

to praise highly; exalt

He quoted a well-known patriotic poem

extolling India as “the best place in the world.”Slide3

Deference (n):

submission

or courteous yielding to the opinion of anotherSlide4

Mitigate (v):

make less severe; alleviate; become milder

To mitigate

Sharice's punishment for driving under the influence, the judge ruled on probation for two years

and mandatory community service instead

of the 90 days in jail. Slide5

Alleviate (v):

Relieve or improve; ease a pain or burden

He

put on his sunglasses, which did little to alleviate the headache sunlight gave him.Slide6

Ameliorate (v):

to make or become better; improve; to step in and make a bad situation better

“Going Green” is a new and popular strategy to ameliorate the negative effects on the environment.Slide7

Connotations and Word Nuances MATTER!

The difference:

Alleviate suggests a temporary lessening of distress without removing the cause.

Ameliorate suggests improving circumstances that demand change.

The patient's condition was

ameliorated

when we administered pain medicine to

alleviate

her headache

.

While some of these words are synonyms, their usage changes based on the nuance of the terms.Slide8

Tactile (

adj

):

relating to the sense of touchBlind students learn braille, which is a tactile way of reading.Slide9

Juxtaposition (n):

placing two things side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast

A juxtaposition of the two cars shows that one gets 50% better mileage than the other.Slide10

Miffed (v):

put out; annoyed; irritated

Kareem was miffed when John borrowed his new sneakers and scuffed them during a basketball game.Slide11

Onerous (adj

):

troubling; burdensome

Charlie thought that shoveling snow was an onerous task because it kept snowing as he was shoveling.Slide12

Vexation (n):

annoyance; irritation

Rush-hour traffic is a daily

vexation for those who travel in the city of Atlanta for work. Slide13

Absolution (n):

forgiveness; pardon; release

For Catholics, absolution is granted when confessing and repenting of sins to a priest.Slide14

Blatant (

adj

):

obvious and intentionalThe scholar showed a blatant

disregard for the school rules when he punched the student in the face in front of the principal.

It’s pretty

blatant

what the issue is here, don’t you think?Slide15

Ensconce (v):

establish firmly in a position

Once my youngest daughter is

ensconced in her bed, I can enjoy some quiet time.Slide16

Hasten (v):

hurry; accelerate; rush

The officer gave George a warning when he was pulled over for speeding as he

hastened to the hospital with a sick baby in the backseat.Slide17

Laceration (n):

a cut

Looking down, he realized that his arm had been

lacerated in the car crash and he would need stitches.Slide18

Plausible (

adj

):

can be believed; reasonableWhen Jason forgot his Crucible

project at home, he tried to come up with a

plausible

excuse that Ms. Favors would believe.Slide19

Tawdry (

adj

):

of little value; gaudy; cheapMark’s tawdry

taste in clothing was an embarrassment to his girlfriend who wanted to go to an expensive restaurant for dinner.Slide20

Abstain (v):

to go without; withdraw

Peter’s dad was an alcoholic, so Peter abstained from liquor and beer and stayed sober his entire life.Slide21

Blighted (

adj

):

damaged; destroyed; ruinThe Irish famine was caused by the potato blight

; food was a scarcity once the crops were ruined.Slide22

Enshroud (v):

cover

After a cool swim, I like to enshroud myself in a warm, fluffy towel.