most Common sAt Vocabulary Words Test

Prefix, Root, and Suffix Challenge• Part Five •

____________________________________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. ABLUTION: a washing, cleansing

2. ACCLIVITY: : upward slope

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3. ACME: : highest point, peak

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4. ADORN: : to dress up, to decorate

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5. AFFILIATE: : to associate or to unitewith

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6. AGNOSTIC: one who doubts theexistence of God

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7. ALIEN: strange, foreign

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8. ALLEGRO: rapid, quick

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9. APPAREL: clothing, attire

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10. APPOSITE: appropriate

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11. APPRISE: : to inform

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19. BANE: cause of ruin, harm, or distress

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12. ARID: : dry

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20. BARB: a pointed part, as of an arrowor fishhook

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13. ASPIRE: : to desire, to have an ambition

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21. BERATE: to scold severely

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14. ASTUTE: shrewd, very smart

15. AUDACITY: : boldness, daring

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16. AURAL: : pertaining to the senseof hearing

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17. AVARICE: : greed

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18. AVOW: : to declare openly

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22. BLATANT: annoyingly conspicuous,offensively noisy and loud

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23. BREACH: a violation, a gap

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24. BURGEON: to flourish, to growrapidly

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25. CANINE: pertaining to dogs

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26. CAPRICIOUS: erratic, impulsive

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27. CAROUSE: to engage in a noisy, drunken party

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35. COMPUTE: to calculate, to estimate

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28. CARTOGRAPHER: : mapmaker

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36. CONJECTURE: to guess

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29. CAUSTIC: : sarcastic, severely critical,corrosive

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37. CONTRITE: sorrowful, penitent

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30. CHASTE: pure, virtuous

31. CHRONIC: : long-lasting

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32. CLAMOR: : noise

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33. COLLATE: : to put together in order

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34. COMMENCE: : to begin

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38. CONVOKE: to call together

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39. CRONY: close friend

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40. CULL: to select, to pick

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41. DALE: valley

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42. DECADENCE: moral deterioration

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43. DECREPIT broken down by age ordisease

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51. DISPEL: to drive away

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44. DEIGN: : to lower oneself before aninferior

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52. DISSOLUTE: immoral, unrestrained

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45. DEMEAN: : to degrade, to lower

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53. DISTORT: to twist out of shape

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46. DENOMINATION: the name or designation for a class of persons

47. DEPLOY: : to place troops in position

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48. DICKER: : to bargain, to argue over prices

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49. DILEMMA: : a troubling situation

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50. DISCLOSE: : to reveal, to make known

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54. DIVULGE: to reveal, to make known

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55. DOLEFUL: sorrowful

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56. DOUSE: to put out (a fire), to extinguish

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57. DULCET: pleasing to the ear

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58. ELIXIR: remedy

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59. ELUSIVE: : difficult to grasp

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67. EXPECTORATE: to spit out

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60. ENHANCE: : to increase in value or beauty, to improve

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68. EXTOL: to praise

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61. ENTREATY: : a request, a plea

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69. EXUDE: to discharge, to ooze

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62. EQUINOX: the time when day and nightare of equal length

63. ERADICATE: : to erase, to wipe out

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64. ESPOUSE: : to support (a cause)

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65. EUPHORIA: : a feeling of well-being

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66. EVICT: : to expel, to throw out

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70. FACTION: a minority within a largergroup

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71. FANCIFUL: unreal, imaginative, unpredictable

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72. FAZE: to disturb, to discourage

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73. FEAT: deed or accomplishment

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74. FELINE: pertaining to cats

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75. FESTER: : to rot

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83. FRIGID: extremely cold

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76. FIAT: : an official order

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84. FRUITLESS: barren, yielding no results

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77. FINITE: : limited, measurable

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85. FUROR: rage, frenzy, fury

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78. FLAY: to strip the skin off, to criticize sharply

79. FLORA: : plant life of a certain area

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80. FOP: : an excessively vain man

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81. FORGO: : to do without, to give up

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82. FRACAS: : a loud quarrel

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86. FURTIVE: stealthy, secretive

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87. FUTILE: useless

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88. GALA: festive

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89. GAMUT: the whole range or extent

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90. GARRULOUS: talkative

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91. GOAD: : to encourage, to spur on

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94. HEARSAY: rumor, gossip

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92. GRATE: : to grind to shreds, to irritate

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95. HIATUS: pause or gap

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93. HALLOW: : to make holy, to bless

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96. HEYDAY: period of success

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97. HOARD: to store away, to accumulate

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98. HOVEL: a dirty, wretched living place

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99. IDYLLIC: : charmingly simple or poetic

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102. INCUBUS: nightmare

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100. IMMUNITY: : freedom from disease

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103. INIQUITY: wickedness

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101. INCENSE: : to inflame, to enrage

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104. INTEGRAL: essential, whole

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105. JAUNT: short trip, excursion

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106. KISMET: destiny, fate

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