Vocab Booster SAT Textbook Vocabulary, Reading Unit 1 Drill 2, p. 25-7

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  1. acculturate
    assimilate culturally
  2. altruistic
    showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  3. appeal
    earnest or urgent request
  4. appease
    make peace with
  5. approach
    a way of entering or leaving
  6. assert
    declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
  7. beast of burden
    an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work
  8. brute
    resembling a beast
  9. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  10. cite
    make reference to
  11. compulsory
    required by rule
  12. congregate
    come together, usually for a purpose
  13. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  14. decrepitude
    a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
  15. derive
    come from
  16. detail
    provide specifics for
  17. dictate
    an authoritative rule
  18. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  19. disenfranchised
    deprived of the rights of citizenship, as the right to vote
  20. drudgery
    hard, monotonous, routine work
  21. effeminacy
    the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)
  22. feminist
    a supporter of equal rights for women
  23. foster
    help develop or grow
  24. found
    set up, establish, or lay the groundwork for
  25. heed
    pay close attention to
  26. historical
    of or relating to the study of recorded time
  27. initiation
    a formal entry into an organization or position or office
  28. legislator
    someone who makes or enacts laws
  29. letters
    scholarly attainment
  30. imposing
    befitting an important, distinguished, or powerful person
  31. militancy
    a combative aggressiveness
  32. militant
    disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
  33. misapprehension
    an understanding of something that is not correct
  34. personage
    one whose actions and opinions have a strong impact
  35. policy
    a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
  36. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  37. privilege
    a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all
  38. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
  39. radical
    markedly new or introducing extreme change
  40. reproduction
    the process of generating offspring
  41. ritualistic
    of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism
  42. segregation
    the act of keeping apart
  43. sequester
    set apart from others
  44. shaman
    one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds
  45. suffrage
    a legal right to vote
  46. suffragist
    an advocate of the extension of voting rights
  47. supposed
    doubtful or suspect
  48. symptom
    a sensation associated with a particular disease
  49. attributable
    indicating the source or cause of something
  50. invoke
    summon into action or bring into existence
  51. lack
    the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
  52. entail
    have as a logical consequence
  53. refute
    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
Created on Tue Mar 31 16:37:11 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:14:37 EDT 2020)

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