SAT Vocabulary 2 Part 1

aggrandize

• embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of

• make something easier to understand

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth

• conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

avarice

• conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth

• the act of killing someone painlessly

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

clandestine

• giving the power to produce an intended result

• without revealing one's identity

• unequivocally detestable

• conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

demystify

• make something easier to understand

• cause disease

• betray

• show an unusual lack of energy

efficacious

• killing someone painlessly

• making something easier to understand

• giving the power to produce an intended result

• revealing one's identity

euthanasia

• the act of killing someone painlessly

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

• an instance of questioning

hiatus

• the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

• clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a group

• one's identity

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

incognito

• able to cause disease

• without revealing one's identity

• unequivocally detestable

• extremely hungry

knell

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

• giving the power to produce an intended result

• the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

lethargy

• inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

• the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth

• hidden aims or methods