SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
August 15-19, 2016
MONDAY:
SAT WORD: EMULATE
DEFINITION: to strive to equal or excel through imitation
SENTENCE: In order to become popular, our band emulated
popular songs on the radio.
TUESDAY:
SAT WORD: AFFABLE
DEFINITION: easy to talk to
SENTENCE: In order to become a counselor, you have to be an
affable person to communicate with.
WEDNESDAY:
SAT WORD: CAMARADERIE
DEFINITION: fellowship; friendship
SENTENCE: The best reason for going to the camp fire was the
camaraderie between friends and fellow classmates.
THURSDAY:
SAT WORD: OBDURATE
DEFINITION: stubbornly resistant; not flexible
SENTENCE: Jenna was obdurate in her stance to have the school
uniforms color changed to yellow.
FRIDAY:
SAT WORD: TENACITY
DEFINITION: persistence; strength; holding fast.
SENTENCE: Khadija must have been tenacious during track
practice to become a national champion.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
August 22-26, 2016
MONDAY:
SAT WORD: Debunk
DEFINITION: to expose as false
SENTENCE: We debunked the rumor that Jeremiah had started
by making him confess.
TUESDAY:
SAT WORD: Futile
DEFINITION: pointless; fruitless, ineffective
SENTENCE: After when confronted Sidney about the rumors,
she knew it was futile to lie.
WEDNESDAY:
SAT WORD: Negate
DEFINITION: to reject as false; to nullify to be ineffective
SENTENCE: The chaos the ensured after the pep rally negated
the possibility to be another.
THURSDAY:
SAT WORD: Repudiate
DEFINITION: to reject emphatically as unfounded or untrue
SENTENCE: Lindsay repudiated the claim that she started the
rumor.
FRIDAY:
SAT WORD: Amorphous
DEFINITION: lacking definite form; shapeless
SENTENCE: The shirt looked good on the hanger, but hung like
amorphous bag once put on.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
August 29- September 2, 2016
MONDAY:
SAT WORD: Tactile
DEFINITION: relating to the sense of touch
SENTENCE: In art school, I studied tactile design.
TUESDAY:
SAT WORD: Juxtaposition
DEFINITION: placing two things side by side
SENTENCE: The juxtaposition of the black and white paintings
creates dynamic tension
WEDNESDAY:
SAT WORD: Miffed
DEFINITION: Put out; annoyed; irritated
SENTENCE: Jack was miffed when his muffler broke only two
weeks after he bought his car.
THURSDAY:
SAT WORD: Onerous
DEFINITION: Troubling; burdensome
SENTENCE: Frodo Baggins had the onerous task of being the one
creature who could take on the onus of saving humanity.
FRIDAY:
SAT WORD: Vexation
DEFINITION: Annoyance; Irritation
SENTENCE: Vixen has long been vexed by the fact that Rudolph
is the most well known of Santa’s reindeer.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
September 5-9, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: extol
DEFINITION: to praise highly; exalt
SENTENCE: The campus bell tolled once for each graduate to
extol his or her accomplishments.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: deference
DEFINITION: Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion of
another; reverence
SENTENCE: The junior senator showed deference when he said,
“eh-hem, I’d like to defer to my illustrious colleague…”
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: alleviate
DEFINITION: relieve or improve; ease a pain or burden
SENTENCE: Aleve effectively alleviates most headaches.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: mitigate
DEFINITION: make less severe; alleviate; become milder
SENTENCE: A baseball mitt makes it easier to catch the ball and
mitigates the pain of catching a 90 mph fast ball.
Friday:
SAT WORD: ameliorate
DEFINITION: To make or become better; improve
SENTENCE: A good meal will help ameliorate your hunger.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
September 12-16, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Advocate
DEFINITION: To speak, plead, or argue in favor of; Support
SENTENCE: The child advocate advocated the No Child Left
Behind Act and supported it openly.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Condone
DEFINITION: To overlook, forgive, or disregard a behavior
without protest or censure.
SENTENCE: I can no longer condone your inappropriate
behavior.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Engender
DEFINITION: To bring into existence; give rise to
SENTENCE: Discussions about gender roles often engender
disagreements and heated emotional exchanges.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Espouse
DEFINITION: To support or adopt
SENTENCE: He firmly espoused the beliefs of his spouse,
supporting her against all opposing voices.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Foster
DEFINITION: To support or encourage
SENTENCE: Foster parents are supposed to encourage, support
and foster growth in their foster children.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
September 19-23, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Heed
DEFINITION: To listen to, pay attention to
SENTENCE: An obedience school drop-out, my black lab never
learned to heed my command and heel on demand.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Truculent
DEFINITION: Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
SENTENCE: Juan’s truculent side came out when Katie drove his
truck through the window at Taco Mac.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Apathetic
DEFINITION: Not caring; showing little emotion
SENTENCE: It is pathetic that as a nation we remain largely
apathetic to environmental problems.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Aloof
DEFINITION: Distant physically or emotionally
SENTENCE: I lovingly gave her a loofah, but she was aloof and
didn’t even bother to take it out the package.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Callous
DEFINITION: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling
SENTENCE: The teacher callously ignored his student’s suffering
and insisted that all guitarists must develop calluses.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
September 26-30, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Complacent
DEFINITION: Contented to a fault
SENTENCE: If you want to come in first place again, you cannot
grow complacent. You must work harder than ever!
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Impassive
DEFINITION: Revealing no emotion
SENTENCE: Showing no hint of passion, the referee remained
impassive and responded without any emotion.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Indifferent
DEFINITION: Not caring
SENTENCE: Akeelah thought life would be different after she
won the spelling bee, but most people were indifferent.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Nonchalant
DEFINITION: Carefree or laidback; unconcerned
SENTENCE: It is not a challenge to be nonchalant about your
life if you have no worries.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Perfunctory
DEFINITION: Done routinely and with little interest or care
SENTENCE: I did a perfunctory job cleaning my room, simply
performing the function without any passion or feeling.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
October 3-7, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Remiss
DEFINITION: Careless; Negligent
SENTENCE: Cal, who’d missed three straight shifts at work, was
accused of being remiss in his duties and was dismissed.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Stoic
DEFINITION: Showing indifference to pain
SENTENCE: The stranded soldier stoically survived without any
of the comforts to which he was accustomed.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Consummate
DEFINITION: Perfect or model example
SENTENCE: After preparing her delectable consommé for the
judges, she was named the consummate chef of the academy.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Circumscribe
DEFINITION: To form a boundary around
SENTENCE: The chef circumscribed the options for the evening
meal: chicken, beef, or fish- and nothing else!
Friday:
SAT WORD: Delineate
DEFINITION: To describe or draw out; depict
SENTENCE: The novelist clearly delineated the story line and
depicted the motives of each major character.
SAT WORD OF THE WEEK
October 10-14, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Abjure
DEFINITION: to reject, renounce
SENTENCE: To prove his honesty, the president abjured the
evil policies of his wicked predecessor.
TUESDAY:
SAT WORD: assiduous
DEFINITION: (adj.) hard-working, diligent
SENTENCE: The construction workers erected the skyscraper
during two years of assiduous labor.
WEDNESDAY
SAT WORD: blandish
DEFINTION: to coax by using flattery
SENTENCE: Rachel’s assistant tried to blandish her into
accepting the deal.
THURSDAY
SAT WORD: Cacophony
DEFINTION: (n.) tremendous noise, disharmonious sound
SENTENCE: The elementary school orchestra created a
cacophony at the recital.
FRIDAY
SAT WORD: decry
DEFINITION (v.) to criticize openly
SENTENCE: The kind video rental clerk decried the policy of
charging customers late fees.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
October 17-21, 2016
MONDAY:
SAT WORD: defile
DEFINITION: (v.) to make unclean, impure
SENTENCE: (She defiled the calm of the religious building
by playing her banjo.)
TUESDAY:
SAT WORD: evanescent
DEFINITION: (adj.) fleeting, momentary
SENTENCE: (My joy at getting promoted was evanescent
because I discovered that I would have to work much longer
hours in a less friendly office.)
WEDNESDAY
SAT WORD: fastidious
DEFINITION: (adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high
and often unattainable standards
SENTNECE: (Mark is so fastidious that he is never able to
finish a project because it always seems imperfect to him.)
THURSDAY
SAT WORD: gregarious
DEFINITION: (adj.) drawn to the company of others,
sociable
SENTENCE: (Well, if you’re not gregarious, I don’t know
why you would want to go to a party!)
FRIDAY
SAT WORD: hapless
DEFINITION: (adj.) unlucky
SENTENCE: (My poor, hapless family never seems to pick
a sunny week to go on vacation.)
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
October 24-28, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Oblique
DEFINITION: (adj.) diverging from a straight line or course,
not straightforward
SENTENCE: Martin’s oblique language confused those who
listened to him.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Pathos
DEFINITION: (n.) an emotion of sympathy
SENTENCE: Martha filled with pathos upon discovering the
scrawny, shivering kitten at her door.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Plethora
DEFINITION: (n.) an abundance, excess
SENTENCE The wedding banquet included a plethora of
oysters piled almost three feet high.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Rectitude
DEFINITION: (n.) uprightness, extreme morality
SENTENCE The priest’s rectitude gave him the moral
authority to counsel his parishioners.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Turpitude
DEFINITION: (n.) depravity, moral corruption
SENTENCE Sir Marcus’s chivalry often contrasted with the
turpitude he exhibited with the ladies at the tavern.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
October 31-November 4, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Zenith
DEFINITION: (n.) the highest point, culminating point
SENTENCE: I was too nice to tell Nelly that she had reached
the absolute zenith of her career.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Latent
DEFINITION: (adj.) hidden, but capable of being exposed
SENTENCE: Sigmund’s dream represented his latent
paranoid obsession with other people’s shoes.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Iniquity
DEFINITION: (n.) wickedness or sin
SENTENCE: “Your iniquity,” said the priest to the practical
jokester, “will be forgiven.”
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Jubilant
DEFINITION: (adj.) extremely joyful, happy
SENTENCE: The crowd was jubilant when the firefighter
carried the woman from the flaming building.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Primeval
DEFINITION: (adj.) original, ancient
SENTENCE: The first primates to walk on two legs, called
Australopithecus, were the primeval descendants of
modern man.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
November 7-11, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Quagmire
DEFINITION: (n.) a difficult situation
SENTENCE: We’d all like to avoid the kind of military quagmire
characterized by the Vietnam War.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Propensity
DEFINITION: (n.) an inclination, preference
SENTENCE Dermot has a propensity for dangerous activities
such as bungee jumping.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Surmise
DEFINITION: (v.) to infer with little evidence
SENTENCE: After speaking to only one of the students, the
teacher was able to surmise what had caused the fight.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Venerate
DEFINITION: to regard with respect or to honor
SENTENCE: The tribute to John Lennon sought to venerate his
music, his words, and his legend.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Cajole
DEFINITION: (v.) to urge, coax
SENTENCE: Fred’s buddies cajoled him into attending the party.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
November 14-18, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Munificence
DEFINITION: (n.) generosity in giving
SENTENCE: The royal family’s munificence made everyone
else in their country rich.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Proclivity
DEFINITION: (n.) a strong inclination toward something
SENTENCE: In a twist of fate, Harold’s childhood proclivity for
torturing small animals grew into a desire to become a
surgeon.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Pernicious
DEFINITION: (adj.) extremely destructive or harmful
SENTENCE: The new government feared that the Communist
sympathizers would have a pernicious influence on the
nation’s stability.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Reprove
DEFINITION: (v.) to scold, rebuke
SENTENCE: Lara reproved her son for sticking each and
every one of his fingers into the strawberry pie.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Neophyte
DEFINITION: (n.) someone who is young or inexperienced
SENTENCE: As a neophyte in the literary world, Malik had
trouble finding a publisher for his first novel.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
November 28- December 2, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Modicum
DEFINITION: (n.) a small amount of something
SENTENCE: Refusing to display even a modicum of sensitivity,
Henrietta announced her teacher’s mistake in front of the entire
school.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Precocious
DEFINITION: (adj.) advanced, developing ahead of time
SENTENCE: Derek was so academically precocious that by the
time he was 10 years old, he was already in the ninth grade.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Manifold
DEFINITION: (adj.) diverse, varied
SENTENCE The popularity of Dante’s Inferno is partly due to the
fact that the work allows for manifold interpretations
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Temerity
DEFINITION: audacity, recklessness
SENTENCE: Tom and Huck entered the scary cave armed with
nothing but their own temerity.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Tantamount
DEFINITION: (adj.) equivalent in value or significance
SENTENCE: When it comes to sports, fearing your opponent is
tantamount to losing.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
December 5- 9, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Servile
DEFINITION: (adj.) subservient
SENTENCE: The servile porter crept around the hotel lobby,
bowing and quaking before the guests.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Vilify
DEFINITION: (v.) to lower in importance, defame
SENTENCE: After the Watergate scandal, almost any story
written about President Nixon sought to vilify him and
criticize his behavior
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Veracity
DEFINITION: (n.) truthfulness, accuracy
SENTENCE: With several people verifying the report, it was
difficult for Latifah to argue against its veracity.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Solicitous
DEFINITION: (adj.) concerned, attentive
SENTENCE Jim, laid up in bed with a nasty virus, enjoyed the
solicitous attention of his mother, who brought him soup
and extra blankets.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Invective
DEFINITION: (n.) an angry verbal attack
SENTENCE: My mother’s irrational invective against the way I
dress only made me decide to dye my hair green.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
December 12-16, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Quixotic
DEFINITION: (adj.) idealistic, impractical
SENTENCE: Edward entertained a quixotic desire to fall in love at
first sight in a laundromat.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Ruse
DEFINITION: (n.) a trick
SENTENCE: Oliver concocted an elaborate ruse for sneaking out
of the house to meet his girlfriend while simultaneously giving his
mother the impression that he was asleep in bed.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Expunge
DEFINITION: (v.) to obliterate, eradicate
SENTENCE: Fearful of an IRS investigation, Paul tried to
expunge all incriminating evidence from his tax files.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Incontrovertible
DEFINITION: (adj.) indisputable
SENTENCE: Only stubborn Tina would attempt to disprove the
incontrovertible laws of physics.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Vacillate
DEFINITION: (v.) to fluctuate, hesitate
SENTENCE I prefer a definite answer, but my boss kept
vacillating between the distinct options available to us.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
December 19-23, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Paucity
DEFINITION: (adj.) small in quantity
SENTENCE: Gilbert lamented the paucity of twentieth-century
literature courses available at the college.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Obdurate
DEFINITION: (adj.) unyielding to persuasion or moral influences
SENTENCE: The obdurate old man refused to take pity on the
kittens.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Somnolent
DEFINITION: (adj.) sleepy, drowsy
SENTENCE: The somnolent student kept falling asleep and
waking up with a jerk.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Stupify
DEFINITION: v.) to astonish, make insensible
SENTENCE: Veronica’s audacity and ungratefulness stupefied
her best friend, Heather.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Inexorable
DEFINITION: (adj.) incapable of being persuaded or placated
SENTENCE: Although I begged for hours, Mom was inexorable
and refused to let me stay out all night after the prom.
SAT WORDS OF THE WEEK
December 26-30, 2016
Monday:
SAT WORD: Inimical
DEFINITION: (adj.) hostile
SENTENCE: I don’t see how I could ever work for a company
that was so cold and inimical to me during my interviews.
Tuesday:
SAT WORD: Maudlin
DEFINITION: (adj.) weakly sentimental
SENTENCE: Although many people enjoy romantic comedies, I
usually find them maudlin and shallow.
Wednesday:
SAT WORD: Clemency
DEFINITION: (n.) mercy
SENTENCE: After he forgot her birthday, Martin could only
beg Maria for clemency.
Thursday:
SAT WORD: Credulity
DEFINITION: (n.) readiness to believe
SENTENCE: His credulity made him an easy target for con
men.
Friday:
SAT WORD: Desecrate
DEFINITION: (v.) to violate the sacredness of a thing or
place
SENTENCE: They feared that the construction of a golf course
would desecrate the preserved wilderness.