SAT 3 Vocabulary Part 2

volition

• the act of making a choice

• the act of inferring

• the act of being in pain

• the act of being uncertain

undulate

• to move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

• to make younger or more youthful

• to inflict punishment

• to ease the anger, agitation, or strong emotion of

stagnant

• not growing or changing; without force or vitality

• submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

• inflicting punishment

• no longer in use

servile

• not growing or changing; without force or vitality

• submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

• inflicting punishment

• no longer in use

rejuvenate

• to grow or change

• to make younger

• to inflict punishment

• to be angry

punitive

• inflicting punishment

• submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior

• not growing or changing; without force or vitality

• no longer in use

pacify

• to ease the anger, agitation, or strong emotion of

• to make ineffective

• to infer

• to imagine

obsolete

• inflicting punishment

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• highly imaginative but unlikely

• no longer in use

neutralize

• to move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern

• to call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

• to make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• to wander from a direct or straight course

maudlin

• highly imaginative but unlikely

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• inadequate in amount or degree

• promoting or enhancing well-being