SAT Vocabulary Lesson 1

to move uncomfortably; to twist around, especially to express pain

• aspire
• writhe
• queue
• ravenous

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.K.4

to break something down into its parts in order to explain or understand it; especially to break apart a sentence into words and phrases, describing each part

• ravenous
• obliterate
• parse
• underworld

a government ruled by the leaders of a religion or by the power of a god or gods

• bilateral
• candor
• elude
• thearchy

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.4

a permanency; a person or thing remaining fixed, in the same position

• elude
• fixture
• havoc
• handwriting

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.4

to drink a liquid; to absorb or take in something

• ravenous
• lapse
• juncture
• imbibe

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CCSS.RI.K.1

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.K.4

CCSS.SL.K.2

to sink a ship by creating a hole or holes in the ship beneath the water line; also to destroy or wreck

• scuttle
• malady
• nestle
• writhe

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.K.4

to make something necessary

• myriad
• lapse
• necessitate
• havoc

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CCSS.L.K.4A

to cheat; to gain something dishonestly, as through a lie, deception, or confidence game

• deity
• defraud
• aspire
• queue

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.1

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.K.4

chaos or large-scale destruction

• handwriting
• havoc
• malady
• obliterate

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CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.RI.K.4

a god or goddess

• deity
• elude
• kernel
• myriad