SAT Vocab Practice List 5

Front

Define: acrimonious

Back

full of or displaying anger and resentment

Front

Define: ameliorate

Back

to make something better, or become better

Front

Define: amenable

Back

open, willing, agreeable

Front

Define: amorphous

Back

shapeless, unstructured, without form

Front

Define: buoyant

Back

afloat; cheerful, optimistic

Front

Define: cajole

Back

persuade, coax, flatter

Front

Define: calamity

Back

disaster, catastrophe, tragedy

Front

Define: debase

Back

humiliate, belittle, demean

Front

Define: efface

Back

wipe out, obliterate, destroy

Front

Define: elucidate

Back

to make clear, clarify, explain