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Comprehensive Vocabulary Review for SAT/ACT Prep: Essential Terms and Definitions

Enhance your SAT/ACT vocabulary with this structured review of essential terms. This resource covers a variety of critical words, their meanings, and roots, helping students prepare effectively for standardized tests. Learn definitions and nuances of terms such as "disseminate," "prerogative," and "insatiable," among others. Each term is accompanied by its root for better retention. Dive into the intricacies of vocabulary, improve your word power, and tackle the verbal sections of the SAT/ACT with confidence!

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Comprehensive Vocabulary Review for SAT/ACT Prep: Essential Terms and Definitions

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  1. SAT/ACT PREP UNIT 8VOCABULARY REVIEW

  2. Disseminate • To spread broadly as though sowing seeds (verb)Root SEMIN = sow

  3. Prerogative •  Exclusive privilege or right; a special advantage, esp. a right attached to an office, rank or status (noun)Root ROGA = ask, beg

  4. Affluence •  A plentiful flow or supply; abundance of wealth or property (noun)Root FLU = flowing

  5. Fortuitous • Happening by chance whether good or bad; random; unexpected (adjective)Root FORT = chance, luck

  6. Strigent • Binding, drawing or pressing tight; marked by rigor, strictness or severity esp. with regard to rule or standard (adjective)Root STRING = draw tight, bind

  7. Abject • Having no pride or spirit; showing utter resignation; hopeless; sunk to a lowest degree; contemptible (adjective)Root JECT = throw

  8. Impeccable • Not liable to sin; incapable of wrongdoing; free from fault or blame; flawless (adjective)Root PECC = sin

  9. Truncate • To shorten by cutting; to cut off a part of; (verb)Root TRUNC = trunk, a stem

  10. Arbitrary • Depending on choice or discretion rather than defined by law; based on opinion, preference or whim (adjective)Root BITE-BAETE = to come, go

  11. Impervious • Not allowing entrance or passage; impenetrable; not capable of being affected or disturbed (adjective)Root VI-VIA = way

  12. Unobtrusive • Not inclined to intrude, to shove/push forward or call to notice without warrant or request (adjective)Root TRUS-TRUD = to thrust

  13. Cognizant • Having conscious recognition; with a range of understanding or awareness (adjective)Root COGN = know

  14. Insatiable • Incapable of being satisfied fully, as a person or an appetite (adjective)Root SATI = enough

  15. Unscrupulous • Unprincipled; without qualms or ethical considerations that makes someone uneasy or inhibits actions (adjective)Root SCRUPUL = small sharp stone

  16. Compulsory • Required by authority; having the power of driving or urging forcefully or irresistibly (adjective)Root PULS = drive, push, throw

  17. Oscillate • To swing backward and forward regularly; to move rhythmically (verb)Root OSCILL = swing

  18. Analogous • Resembling; similar in biological function but different in structure and origin; showing a likeness permitting one to draw an inference (adjective)Root LOG = word

  19. Destitute • Lacking something needed or desirable; extremely poor (adjective)Root STIT = set, place

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