SAT Words 1
Adjective--or, relating to, or characteristic of a mental disturbance characterized by confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by disordered speech and hallucinations
What is delirious?
Verb--to hold fast or stick by as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing; to give support or maintain loyalty; to bind oneself to observance
What is adhere?
Noun--sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
What is compassion?
What is discredit?
The students all wanted to read different books, so the class came up with a _________________ that satisfied most of them.
What is compromise?
Noun--the act of coming together and especially moving toward union or uniformity
What is convergence?
Adjective--easily broken, cracked, or snapped; easily disrupted, overthrown, or damaged: frail
What is brittle?
Noun--a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune
What is adversity?
The driver failed to ________________ to the rules of the road and after five tickets, his license was suspended.
What is adhere?
The ___________________ of four main streets in the county made that large intersection the most dangerous in the state.
What is convergence?
What is abstain?
Noun--a settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions Verb--to come to agreement by mutual concession
What is compromise?
Noun--a spirit of friendly good-fellowship
What is camaraderie?
What is adversity?
The struggling student decided to _________________ the study and organizational habits of a successful student in her class.
What is emulate?
Adjective--characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort
What is diligent?
Adjective--Knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience: mindful
What is cognizant?
Verb--to refuse to accept as true or accurate: disbelieve; to cause disbeliefin the accuracy or authority of; to deprive of good repute: disgrace
What is discredit?
During the season of Lent, the young man decided to _______________ from all social media in order to have more uninterrupted time with God.
What is abstain?
What is camaraderie?
Noun--the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, experiences of another
What is empathy?
Verb--to strive to equal or excel; imitate
What is emulate?
Noun--to look on with scorn
What is disdain?
The principal was not ________________ of the fact that students were being given way too much homework, causing several students to leave the school for homeschooling.
What is cognizant?
What is disdain?