Elite SAT Vocab 1251-1500

[Adj] Extremely nervous or excited

[V] To summarize; to paraphrase

[Adj] Working hard and steadily; diligent

[Adj] Obvious; undisguised

[N] A state of great happiness; such a state expressed in speech or writing

[N] The putting aside of personal interest for the sake of others or for a belief, cause, or principle

[Adj] Inflicting or intended to inflict punishment

[Adj] Sleepy

[V] To renounce under oath; to give up or deny

[V] To sharpen; to make more effective

[Adj] Bitterly sneering; mocking

[Adj] Not immediately obvious; hard to understand

[V] To make lower in value, quality, or character

[Adj] Marked by carelessness or casual attention to detail; sloppy

[N] A group of officials and administrators, esp. of a government

[N] A place of ideal peace and harmony

[N] A natural or habitual Tendency or inclination

[Adj] Clever and cautious

[Adj] Stubbornly resistant to control, authority, or treatment

[Adj] Shaking; fearful

[Adj] Elaborately detailed

[V] To demolish; to flatten to ground level

[N] A bad reputation or disgrace gained after a specific action

[N] A social outcast

[N] All the gods of a people; a group highly respected in a field

[N] A cause of widespread suffering

[V] To be plentiful

[Adj] Bashful or shy; pretending to be shy; unwilling to make a commitment or divulge information

[V] To accept a bad situation

[N] An act or accomplishment showing skill

[Adj] Supplying a remedy; intended to correct

[N] Daydream

[N] Offense or resentment (used with "take")

[Adj] Relating to the sense of hearing

[N] A natural inclination; a tendency

[N] An answer, esp. to another answer

[V] To attack a person's reputation; to slander

[N] Someone who rejects one group, cause, or allegiance for another

[Adj] Dull; routine; commonplace

[V] To ask for; to seek

[N] A brief visit

[Adj] Inclined to fight; expressing violence or hostility

[Adj] Having keen perception or understanding

[Adj] Approaching death; nearly obsolete

[N] Deviation from church doctrine or from an established belief

[Adj] Capable of being believed

[N] Self-assurance; composure; equilibrium

[Adj] Warlike

[V] To move back and forth regularly

• [Adj] Showing faithless disloyalty
• [N] A disloyal coward

[N] A high government official; a member of an elite group, esp. having high status in intellectual or cultural circles

[Adj] Dominant; widespread

[N] Deliberate injury of someone, esp. maiming; a state of violent chaos

[V] To push forward; to impose (oneself or ideas) on others

[V] To carry or transmit; to communicate

[V] To spread through or be present throughout

[N] Something at which a person excels

[Adj] Greedy; motivated by desire for money

[N] Excessive care in spending; stinginess

[Adj] Putting unnecessary stress on minor or purely academic knowledge

[N] Someone or something that comes before another and announces or suggests what is to come

[Adj] Expressing much in few words; given to pompous moralizing

[Adj] Not letting in light; unintelligible

[Adj] Old fashioned; out-of-style

[N] Shackles; handcuffs

[Adj] Having no equal

[V] To eject or expel

[V] To begin

[V] To hypnotize or spellbind

[N] A collection of wild and strange animals kept in cages

[Adj] Exhibiting reverence and religious observation

[V] To take a risk; to dare; to dare to go

[Adj] Coming into being; being born

[Adj] Easy to teach; submissive

[N] A period of 1000 years

[Adj] Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous

[Adj] Not able to be predicted; constantly changing

[N] A specialized list of terms, words or names

[V] To turn in and receive something in exchange; to make up for

[Adj] Strongly marked; clearly indicated

[Adj] Obvious; evident

[V] To look upon with respect and honor

[Adj] Deserving to be severely criticized

[Adj] Very distressing; painful

[N] Science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in

[V] To work together, esp. at an intellectual effort

[N] Conduct according to moral principles

[N] A cure-all or an all-purpose solution

[V] To spend wastefully

[Adj] Subordinate in function; obsequious

[V] To overturn

[Adj] Lazy; lacking ambition

[Adj] Loud and harsh

[V] To state confidently

• [V] To infer something by intuition or with slender evidence
• [N] Such an inference

[Adj] Having actual existence or reality; not influenced by emotion or personal prejudice

[V] To interfere, esp. in order to damage or weaken

[V] To avoid; to shun

[Adj] Easily managed or controlled

[Adj] Occurring by change (either positive or negative)

[Adj] Having a bad reputation

[N] An imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous

[N] One who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence

[Adj] Producing abundantly; prolific

[V] To satisfy or attempt to satisfy demands by granting concessions

[Adj] Without skill; absurd or foolish

[V] To put or keep in a hiding place; to conceal

[N] A person who start and manages a business

[V] To walk in a leisurely manner

[N] The experience of great joy; ecstasy

[Adj] Lacking light; dim; dark

[V] To persuade or obtain through flattery or cunning

[N] Magnificence; splendor

[V] To repeat

[Adj] Wonderful; amazing; very big

[N] A mixture, esp. of two or more metals

[V] To make fun of; to ridicule

[Adj] Characterized by tasteless or showy colors

[Adj] Done secretly, often of something unseemly or unethical

[V] To go around, bypass; to surround

[N] A transformation, as by magic; a marked change in appearance or function

[Adj] Spiteful

[Adj] Involving a close relationship of mutual dependence

[Adj] Extremely loud

[N] The propagation of a belief, a cause, or information reflecting the views and interest of those advocating the belief; material reflecting such a belief or cause

[V] To behave playfully and without inhibition

[V] To shake; to tremble from fear or cold

[V] To put side by side esp. for comparison or contrast

[N] A gentle, soft breeze

[Adj] Indecent or humorously coarse; lewd

[Adj] Having no useful result

[N] A word created by initials

[N] A list of things to be done

[Adj] Full of animation

[N] A person sent on a mission to represent another

[N] A substitute

[Adj] Harshly critical

[V] To return to a previous state

[Adj] Highly complicated or intricate; characterized by devious plotting

[Adj] Refusing to give up despite difficulties

[Adj] Always ready to argue; quarrelsome

[V] To lessen in amount, intensity or strength

[Adj] Very happy; celebrating

[Adj] Full of cunning

[Adj] Wrinkled from aging

[Adj] Keen and forceful; caustic

[V] To move violently; to disturb

[N] A remark that attacks one's reputation

[V] To summon or influence by, or as if by, magic

[Adj] Not yet grown; immature; undeveloped

[V] To decorate; to add ornamental or fictitious details to

[V] To recover from illness; to recuperate

[V] To submit in a subservient manner to a superior; to fawn

[Adj] Sharp in smell and taste; harsh in tone

[N] Excessive desire for wealth

[V] To be uncertain of something; to sway

[V] To come up with self-satisfying but incorrect excuses

[V] To get or earn; to collect or gather

[Adj] Seeking revenge; marked by a desire to hurt

[Adj] Bad-tampered quarrelsome

[V] To discourage from a course of action

[N] A group of touring actors, singers or performers

[V] To lean to one side or swerve while in motion (of a vehicle)

[Adj] Impressive by virtue of size, power, or manner

[Adj] Noisy and wild; unruly

[Adj] Outwardly appearing as such

[V] To lower in rank or prestige

[V] To cover completely in a liquid; to engage wholly

[N] A belief

[V] To delight, to enjoy (used with "in")

[N] A rapid twist and turn; an individual mannerism

[N] A collection of valuable items

[Adj] Dealing with something as a whole rather than by its individual parts

[N] An event causing extreme trouble and misery

[N] A strong, often militant, supporter

[N] The original model; someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class

[V] To exceed; to go beyond or above the limits

[Adj] Reducing or preventing criticism with charm

[Adj] Alert and watchful, esp. for what is dangerous

[N] Briefness

[Adj] Suffering the loss of a loved one

[Adj] Lasting through the years

[N] To participate in a loud, drunken party

[V] To emphasize

[Adj] Causing doubt; questionable

[V] To look for; to search; to investigate (usually with "into")

[V] To approach and speak to, usually aggressively

[V] To claim for one's self unjustly

[V] To occupy completely

[V] To make faulty or impure; to spoil

[V] To weaken

[Adj] Stubbornly unyielding; impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason

[N] High praise

[V] To assume as a fact or principle

[N] A feeling of great happiness

[Adj] Lacking substance or intelligence

[N] A specific set of ideas or beliefs, esp. religious or asserted to be absolutely true

[N] Immoral behavior

[Adj] Adventurous, risky, daring

[V] To promote growth, to nurture

[V] To strengthen; to confirm; to support

[V] To explain in detail

[N] Temporary encampment, often in an unsheltered area

[Adj] Unfortunate; unlucky

[V] To roll about lazily, in or as if in water, snow or mud; to revel

[N] A group of persons working together or related by a common association

[Adj] In high spirits; joyful

[N] Disaster; sudden misfortune

[Adj] Hard to handle or manage, esp. because of size or weight

[N] A region; a kingdom

[Adj] Of huge size or capacity

[N] A region that drains into a river, lake, or other body of water; a critical point that marks a division

[Adj] About to happen

[Adj] Having ceased to exist or live

[V] To make, build; to lie

[Adj] Measurable; having an end

[V] To capture the attention or affect of, as by beauty, excellence, etc.

[V] To rise or cause to rise and float in the air

[N] The power to attract with something desirable

[N] A small, often exclusive group of people who associate with one another frequently

[V] To expose the falsehood of

[N] A small design or portrait; a brief scene (as from a movie) or literary sketch

[N] A great commotion or uproar

[V] To clear from blame or guilt

[V] To refer to indirectly

[N] A special liking for something; a preference

[N] A representative example of a type

[N] A fanciful idea or image, esp. an exaggerated poetic comparison; an extravagant constuction

[Adj] Harmful or threatening harm or evil

[V] To improve; to become better

• [V] To establish one's location
• [N] The east

[V] To disturb; to distress

[Adj] Distinctly marked with different colors; diverse

[Adj] Causing dizziness, as from spinning or heights

[N] Unawareness of pain or other sensation; drugs that cause this state

[N] The decisive or final result

[Adj] Giving off gas bubbles; showing high spirits or excitement

[N] The consideration of past events

[N] All the people not belonging to a given profession, esp. the clergy

[N] Blessing

[V] To divide into two parts

[Adj] Friendly; easy to talk to

[N] A widely-accepted truth

[Adj] Word for word

[V] To cancel or repeal by authority

[Adj] Careful about what one says or does; circumspect; done, said, or placed so as to attract little notice

[N] A heated or noisy argument

[Adj] No longer in fashion

[N] A bitter, prolonged quarrel

[V] To make someone believe something that is untrue; to deceive