04 Aug SAT Vocabulary Builder,

Complex Vocabulary with Explanations:

SAT – online

Frequently used in SAT

1. Abstain: To not do something

Ex: He abstained from office festivities as he was upset about his uncle’s health.

• Accolade: Praise or an award

Ex: The play received many accolades for excellent writing and acting.

• Acrid: Strong and bitter as related to a taste or smell

The acrid smoke filled the air, causing many people to escape.

• Adulation: Admiration and praise for someone who may not deserve it.

The Minister accepted the adulation from people.

• Alchemy: A precursor of chemistry who would try to find a potion to cure everything and turn lead to gold

The library has many books on ancient alchemy.

• Ambiguous:        Unclear, a statement that carries more than one meaning.

His statement on the matter was Ambiguous

• Anecdote: An information/story about a person, usually interesting story

My Grandparent would tell me anecdote stories about my father’s childhood.

• Anthology: A collection of writing like stories or poems

The Library has a good range of anthology.

• Aspiration: A strong Desire to achieve something (position or possession)

Today’s youth has aspirations of better career

1. Arduous: Difficult, Requiring a great deal of strength and efforts.

Getting admission to Ivy League colleges is an arduous task.

1. Antipodes: Two places which are on opposite sides of earth

Knowledge of antipodes help in geological studies.

1. Atrophy: To waste away, decline

1. Braggart: A person who speaks proud of himself or his achievements/deeds

Although my friend is a successful person he never misses a chance to brag about it.

1. Backlash: A strong reaction to a political or social event or decision

The government faced backlash on the new tax policy.

1. Belligerent: Aggressive

1. Circumscribe: To restrict

1. Chastised: To criticize in a severe manner

1. Censorious: Extremely Critical approach or behavior

1. Commence: To begin, to Start

• Concurred: to have the same opinion

• Congenial: A trait that has been acquired

• Consummate:  To complete, to fulfill

• Curtail: to reduce or to cut short

• Counterfeit: To copy something with an intention to deceive

• Cryptic: Mysterious, not clear

• Denounce: To inform against,

• Defraud: To take a possession of (money/rights/property) by unfair means

• Domicile: A place of Residence

• Decipher: succeed in understanding, interpreting or identifying something

• Diplomacy: The art of management of relations (generally referred to between two countries)