Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words

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Work together on a common enterprise of project

Verb When you work together on shared goal, you collaborate. If you don't just split a project up evenly but work together on creating solutions, you collaborate.

Collaborate

Awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering

Noun If someone shows kindness, caring, and a

willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.

Compassion

An accommodation in which both sides make concessions

Noun

A compromise is a way of settling differences by everybody making concessions. If you want to stay out until 10 and your friend

wants to stay out until midnight, 11 is a good compromise.

Compromise

(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

Verb If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone. A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, "What do you know? You're only a 6-year-

old!" is being condescending.

Condescending

Imposing or depending on or containing a condition Noun Something conditional is dependent on other factors. You might receive a conditional

offer of acceptance from a college, depending on your high school graduation and your maintaining passing grades.

Conditional

Someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (esp. in religion)

Noun A conformist is a person who follows traditional standards of conduct. If you're a conformist, it's unlikely

you'll join a revolution to overthrow your government; instead you'll argue that it's best to keep things the way they are.

Conformist

The act of coming closer Noun Convergence is when two or more things

come together to form a new whole, like the convergence of plum and apricot genes in the plucot.

Convergence

Harmful to living things Adjective If something is deleterious, it does harm or

makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.

Deleterious

A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular

passions and prejudice

Noun A demagogue is someone who becomes a

leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.

Demagogue

A turning aside of course or attention or concern

Noun When your essay about French cooking starts describing a childhood trip to

Disneyland, it's taken a digression — it's strayed from the main topic.

Digression