SAT Vocabulary: Word – Definitions
1. Abase: verb
To humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader
offered to bow down to his conqueror.)
2. Abate: verb
To reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)
3. Abdicate: verb
To give up a position, usually one of leadership (When he realized that the
revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)
4. Abduct: verb
To kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her
happy home.)
5. Aberration: noun
Something that differs from the norm (In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the
World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox
have not won a World Series since.)
6. Abet: verb
To aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the
inside to abet him.)
, 7. Abhor: verb
To hate, detest (Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when
he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)
8. Abide: verb
To put up with (Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to
abide by it.)
To remain (Despite the beating they've taken from the weather throughout the
millennia, the mountains abide.)
9. Abject: adjective
Wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking
her ankle, Eloise was abject.)
10. Abjure: verb
To reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies
of his wicked predecessor.)
11. Abnegation: noun
Denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold
showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)
12. Abort: verb
To give up on a half-finished project or effort (After they ran out of food, the
men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.)
1. Abase: verb
To humiliate, degrade (After being overthrown and abased, the deposed leader
offered to bow down to his conqueror.)
2. Abate: verb
To reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while, then abated.)
3. Abdicate: verb
To give up a position, usually one of leadership (When he realized that the
revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne.)
4. Abduct: verb
To kidnap, take by force (The evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her
happy home.)
5. Aberration: noun
Something that differs from the norm (In 1918, the Boston Red Sox won the
World Series, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and the Red Sox
have not won a World Series since.)
6. Abet: verb
To aid, help, encourage (The spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the
inside to abet him.)
, 7. Abhor: verb
To hate, detest (Because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when
he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor the sport.)
8. Abide: verb
To put up with (Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to
abide by it.)
To remain (Despite the beating they've taken from the weather throughout the
millennia, the mountains abide.)
9. Abject: adjective
Wretched, pitiful (After losing all her money, falling into a puddle, and breaking
her ankle, Eloise was abject.)
10. Abjure: verb
To reject, renounce (To prove his honesty, the President abjured the evil policies
of his wicked predecessor.)
11. Abnegation: noun
Denial of comfort to oneself (The holy man slept on the floor, took only cold
showers, and generally followed other practices of abnegation.)
12. Abort: verb
To give up on a half-finished project or effort (After they ran out of food, the
men, attempting to jump rope around the world, had to abort and go home.)
