SAT Vocabulary Weeks 1-4

What is the correct definition for Muse?

• to become absorbed in thought; turn something over in the mind.

• notably polite or polished in manner

• calm; peaceful; tranquil; happy; joyful; carefree

• the intention or desire to do evil; ill will

What is the correct definition for Malice?

• an amount of money given to a person who has performed a service

• to happen as an unrelated event that causes a delay or problem

• calm; peaceful; tranquil; happy; joyful; carefree

• the intention or desire to do evil; ill will

What is the correct definition for Urbane?

• capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure or heat

• notably polite or polished in manner

• excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous

• the intention or desire to do evil; ill will

What is the correct definition for meticulous?

• capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure or heat

• having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech; movingly expressive

• excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous

• the intention or desire to do evil; ill will

the quality of being keen in judgement; wisdom

• hackneyed

• halcyon

• bucolic

• sagacity

The clay was left out so long that it wasn’t ______________ anymore.

• prolific

• malleable

• coerce

• terse

to hold up, strengthen, or reinforce

• terse

• bolster

• aspire

• sedentary

Which words means: understood by only a small group; specialized or obscure (like an in-joke)

• egotistical

• esoteric

• eloquent

• terse

Which vocabulary word means to teach (someone) in a way that improves the mind or character?

• halcyon

• edify

• aspire

• bolster

This image is an example of?

• bucolic

• cache

• vertigo

• mores