most Common sAt Vocabulary Words Test

Prefix, Root, and Suffix Challenge• Part Seven •

____________________________________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. ABSTINENCE: self-denial, resistance to temptation

2. ACRONYM: : word formed from initials

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3. AFFLUENCE: : wealth

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4. ALTER: : to change

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5. ANNEAL: : to heat and then cool, to toughen

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6. APOGEE: farthest point away from the earth

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7. ARTFUL: cunning, tricky, crafty

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8. ASKEW: crooked, out of position

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9. BANAL: common, ordinary, trite

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10. BARRAGE: heavy attack

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11. BELLOW: : to yell loudly

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19. CONFLAGRATION: a large and destructive fire

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12. BLITHE: : carefree, lighthearted

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20. CONTENTIOUS: ready to argue,quarrelsome

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13. BRASH: : offensively bold, rude

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21. CORTEGE: funereal procession, group of followers

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14. CANDOR: honesty, openness, frankness

15. CATHARTIC: : cleansing

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16. CHURLISH: : rude, ill-bred

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17. COFFER: : a strongbox

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18. COMPLIANT: : yielding, submissive

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22. CREVICE: an opening, a crack

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23. DECELERATE: to slow down

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24. DEFINITIVE: comprehensive, complete

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25. DESPISE: to scorn, to regard withdisgust

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26. DEVOUT: religious, pious, sincere

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27. DISHEVELED: untidy

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35. FACTIOUS: causing disagreement

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28. DISSERTATION: : a written essay

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36. FATAL: causing death

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29. EDIFICE: : structure, building

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37. FINALE: the climax, end

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30. EFFEMINATE: unmanly, womanly,a softness or delicacy

31. EMPATHY: : understanding another'sfeelings

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32. ENVISAGE: : to imagine, to form amental picture

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33. ERRONEOUS: : mistaken, wrong

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34. EXHORT: : to warn

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38. FLORID: flowery, ornate

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39. GALVANIZE: to stimulate, to startleinto sudden activity

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40. GAMBOL: to frolic, to romp about

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41. GIST: main point, essence

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42. GRATUITOUS: free of cost,unnecessary

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43. HARRY: to worry, to torment

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51. JEOPARDY: danger

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44. HEMOPHILIA: : a blood defect in which the blood does not clot to close a wound

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52. LAITY: religious worshipers who are not clergy

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45. IGNOBLE: : dishonorable

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53. LEONINE: lion-like, fierce, authoritative

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46. ILLUSION: fake impression

47. INCANDESCENT: : very bright, shining

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48. INEFFABLE: : indescribable, unspeakable

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49. INKLING: : a hint

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50. JAUNDICED: : pertaining to a yellowedskin, prejudiced

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54. LIBRETTO: the words of an opera

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55. LUPINE: wolf-like, fierce

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56. MARITAL: pertaining to marriage

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57. MENAGERIE: collection of wild or strange animals

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58. MISCONSTRUE: misinterpret, misjudge

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59. MOLTEN: : melted

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67. PERTURB: to unsettle, to disturb

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60. NETTLE: : to irritate, to annoy

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68. PRECEPT: a rule of conduct

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61. NONAGE: : a period of immaturity

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69. PROCREATE: to beget or produce

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62. OBTRUDE: to push something toward or upon a person

63. ONUS: : a burden, a responsibility

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64. PALPABLE: : obvious, capable of being touched or felt

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65. PARIAH: : an outcast

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66. PEDIGREE: : a record of ancestors, a lineof descent

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70. PROSTRATE: lying flat, thrown or fallen to the ground

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71. PURLOIN: to steal

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72. QUALM: a feeling of uneasiness

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73. QUIVER: to tremble, to shake

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74. RECONCILE: to bring into agreementor harmony

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75. RECTIFY: : to correct, to make right

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83. SPASM: a sudden burst of energy

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76. RELISH: : to enjoy, to take delight in

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84. STIGMA: mark of disgrace

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77. REPUTED: : supposed to be

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85. SUCCINCT: concise, brief and to thepoint

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78. RIFT: a break or split

79. SANGUINE: : cheerful, optimistic

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80. SECRETE: : to hide or conceal

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81. SHOAL: : a shallow place in the water, a reef

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82. SMOLDER: : to burn without flame, tokeep feelings concealed

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86. SURLY: rude, bad-tempered

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87. TAWNY: yellowish-brown

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88. UNDUE: inappropriate, unreasonable

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89. TIRADE: a long and angry speech, an outburst of bitter denunciation

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90. UNSAVORY: unpleasant to taste or smell

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91. VAIN: : conceited, excessively proud aboutone's appearance

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94. WHET: to stimulate, to make sharp

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92. VERDANT: : green, flourishing

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95. WINCE: to shrink, as in pain, fear, to flinch

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93. WAIF: : a homeless person

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96. WRAITH: a ghost, an apparition

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97. WRATH: anger, rage

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98. WRENCH: to twist, to pull

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99. WRY: : produced by distorting the face (awry grin), ironic (wry humor)

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102. ZEAL: great enthusiasm

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100. YEN: : an intense desire, a longing

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103. ZEALOUS: ardently active, devoted, dilligent

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101. YOKE: : to join together, to link

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104. ZENITH: the highest point

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105. ZEPHYR: a gentle, mild breeze

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106. ZEST: hearty enjoyment

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