to give up a position, right, or power
Grade 9 : Week Two SAT Vocabulary

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9th Grade
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Jacie Morand
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
blight
abdicate
foetid
fervid
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
smelling extremely unpleasant
foetid
ephemeral
glower
gullible
Answer explanation
Think about smelly feet when you think of this word. Smelly feet are foetid: they smell very unpleasant.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
public shame or disgrace
Glower
ephemeral
florid
Ignominy
Answer explanation
Think of ignorance (as in don't know something). If you are ignorant or don't know something you feel shame or ignominy.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
extremely plain or secluded
florid
monastic
lament
glower
Answer explanation
Monastic sounds like monastery, a place where monks live. Monks live in places that are simple and out of the way. So monastic means plain and out of the way or secluded.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state
sedition
tawdry
blithe
specious
Answer explanation
One way to get people to rebel is through speech
and another is though your actions. S---tion when you put the words together.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
to decline in vigor, strength, or interest
blithe
flag
tawdry
specious
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
the science of the causes and effects of diseases
nuance
pathology
nominal
lament
Answer explanation
Anything that ends with 'ology' is the study of something.
Exobiology, the study of life in outer space.
Myrmecology, the study of ants
Scatology, the study of feces (poo)
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