Unit 7: Vocabulary Practice (SAT/ACT)

adj. relating to hostile opposition

• anecdotal

• adversarial

• allusion

• imposition

v. to make a secretive mention of something

• allude

• disdain

• endow

• tentative

n. the use of payment to request something (e.g., a service or product)

• fiscal

• imposition

• commission

• endow

v. to put limits on; to restrict

• divide

• combine

• fiscal

• confine

Choose the correct usage of the noun disdain.

• He disdain the request to meet for lunch.

• I disdain you from talking to me that way.

• She was happy to disdain him from making bad choices.

• He looked at me with such disdain that I immediately knew the job wouldn’t work out.

v. to equip or bestow (usu. a quality or ability)

• disdain

• endow

• impose

• probihit

adj. related to (government) money

• commission

• confine

• fiscal

• materialistic

If it’s not too much of an imposition, could you proofread my paper?

What does the word imposition mean?

• an agreement

• a simple request

• an unneccesary burden

• a hopeful outcome

adj. superficial; focus on material possessions

• maturation

• meticulous

• inornate

• materialistic

v. to die; to pass away

• rash

• prohibit

• parish

• perish