Vocabulary Unit 17: Top SAT Words

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someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

NOUN Your parents might want to visit the

museum while you want to hike in the forest, but your brother, the hedonist, just wants to lounge by the hotel pool and eat cake.

Hedonist

a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

NOUN

In science, a hypothesis is an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation. Outside science, a theory or guess can also be

called a hypothesis.

Hypothesis

characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation

ADJECTIVE

Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous.

Impetuous

attribute or credit to

Verb

The verb impute can be used to blame someone for doing something bad, give credit for good work, or just tell it like it is, like when you impute your lateness to my not telling you where to meet me.

Impute

lacking worth or importance

ADJECTIVE

If something is considered of little worth or importance, it is inconsequential. If astronomers forecast a tremendous meteor shower, it might turn out to be no more than space junk, too inconsequential to record.

Inconsequential

incapable of being avoided or prevented

ADJECTIVE rarely can be a NOUNN: “don’t argue with the inevitable”

If something is inevitable, it will definitely happen, like death or tax season.

Inevitable

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

ADJECTIVE Intrepid is just a fancy word for describing a

person or action that is bold and brave. Super heroes are intrepid in their struggle for truth, justice and the American way.

Intrepid

spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

ADJECTIVE

If you're intuitive, you can probably guess what this word means

just by looking at it. No? Maybe you're not so intuitive, after all. Intuitive means having the ability to understand or know something without any direct evidence or reasoning process.

Intuitive

a feeling of extreme joy

NOUN

Jubilation is a happy word. Where there is jubilation, there are laughter, smiles, laughs, joy, and gladness.

Jubilation

someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer

NOUN

A lobbyist is someone hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause.

Lobbyist