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Psat Vocab . Abase. V. Lower, humiliate I will not abase myself by going to a base with you on the first date. . adulate. To flatter and praise so much it’s sickening. “Brad, dual eight hundreds on your math and critical reading SATs? You’re a god!” she adulated . Aesthetic.
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Abase • V. Lower, humiliate I will not abase myself by going to a base with you on the first date.
adulate • To flatter and praise so much it’s sickening. • “Brad, dual eight hundreds on your math and critical reading SATs? You’re a god!” she adulated.
Aesthetic • Artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful. As the tick was sucking blood from my arm, I squashed it. The dead insect was not aesthetically pleasing.
Awry • Twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong • There is something awry in my bread; it is just a rye seed.
begrudge • To envy, to resent • To be holding a grudge for so long means that you must begrudge me my happy life.
berate • To scold severely. • If you don’t do A work, your teachers will berate you (B-rate) you.
boisterous • Rowdy • We have male cheerleaders at our school When they get in front of a crowd, those boys stir us up until we’re boisterous.
brevity • Briefness • When Janet had a 20 page paper due, but wanted to go out, her friends suggested, “You can write your paper with great brevity and brave a D.”
cache • Hiding place (pronounced cash) • The thieves stashed the cash in the cache.
cajole • To coax • “Yes, you can Joel.” They cajoled him.
Callous • Unfeeling, unsympthetic • Brian complained of the callus on his big toe, but Meg remained callous
candor • Frankness, candidness • Speaking with complete candor, Hansel, said the wicked witch, I have chopped Gretel up and canned her.
dearth • Scarcity (nothing to deal with death) • Because of Darth Vader, there was a dearth of laughter on the Death Star.
Depraved • Morally corrupt; debased, perverted • As a prank, the depraved criminal de-paved the highway.
Derogate • To detract, to take away • The effect of the spear protruding from Bob’s forehead was to derogate from his usually good looking face.
disseminate • To dispense objects such as seeds, newspapers, to distribute • While making his stock boy walk the plank, the captain explained, “Dis seaman ate all of the supplies that he was supposed to disseminate.”
emaciated • Excessively thin; weak • In May she ate it, but now it’s June and she’s still emaciated.
emulate • To imitate closely • When the tornado began, Dorothy called out, “Aunty Em, you late. Emulate Toto and hurry up.”
epitome • Something that perfectly represents and entire class of things; embodiment • “You’re the epitome of stupidity,” she screamed after I spilled baloney dip all over her dress.
equivocal • Capable of two interpretation; ambigous • Equi-equal • Vocal-voice • “A good meal from this cook is a rare treat,” is an equivocal statement.
facetious • Joking or teasing • She’s so facetious that you should not take what she says at face value.
fawning • Groveling; overly admiring • The hunter who killed Bambi’s mother should have come back and made a fawning plea for forgiveness.
feasible • Workable, plausible, possible • Homer’s idea of opening a hair salon for bald people was not feasible-who would pay the $30 fee.
Forbearance • Patience • He played dead with forbearance until the four bears got antsy and went away.
futile • Completely ineffective • The one –armed floor layer felt his work was futile because he could lay only a few tiles a day.
Genial • Friendly, affable • Although Jean is always considerte, he was not genial to my mom.
Grandiose • Excessively impressive, grand • Barbara Streisand has a grandiose nose.
Gregarious • Adj, drawn to the company of others, sociable • Well, Greg, how hilarious, you at a singles party; you are not gregarious .
Garrulous • Adj talkative, words • Gary, Spongebob is so garrulous that his guests can not get a word in edgewise.
Hackneyed • Overused; trite • The plot of the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was hackneyed. It was just another horror movie about an axe murderer who hacked knees off.
Hallowed • Holy, sacred • I was hanging out in a cemetery, but I didn’t know I was on hollowed hallowed ground until I fell into a grave.
Haughty • Proud; vain; arrogant He thinks he’s hot. He shouldn’t be so haughty.
Hiatus • N. a beak or gap in duration or continuity. The hiatus in service should last two or three months, until the cable lines are repaired.
Hypothetical • Supposed or assumed true, but unproven • It is hypothetical if the drug will work.
Iconoclastic • Destroyer of tradition • The crown yelled “down with the iconoclast” he answered with I cannot last.
Ignominious • Dishonor, humiliating • He couldn’t bear the ignominy of getting a 100 on the PSAT.
Impeccable • Flawless faultless Woody is not an impeccable woodpecker; he is always making mistakes.
inept • Incompetent • The inept astronomy student thought unicorns live on Neptune.
Jubilant • Extremely joyful, happy • The crowd was jubilant when the firefighter saved the cat from the tree.
Juxtaposition • N. the act of placing two things next to each other for comparison. • The designer admired the juxtaposition of the yellow couch and green table.
Knavery • Dishonest, mischievous dealing Can Avery joing the navy? Neverm he is always up to some kind of knavery.
Laceration • A cut, tear • Alas, when Arthur ate pickled razor blades, he lacerated his tongue.
Larceny • Stealing • Stealing from the cartoonist who created The Far Side is Larson-y
