SAT VOCABULARY 61-70

SAT 61

Contrite (adj.) – feeling sorrow and regret for one’s sins or offenses; penitent

Synonym – guilt; remorse Antonym – apathetic Sentence – It was hard for Arthur to stay

angry with his sister for breaking his game since she was so genuinely contrite.

HW – New Sentence

SAT 62

Countenance (noun) – face; facial expression Synonyms – look/appearance of face; visage Antonyms – N/A Sentence – One look at Mary’s contorted

countenance told her mother that something terrible had happened.

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SAT 63

Covet (verb) – to wish for enviously Synonym – crave; desire strongly/jealously Antonym – give up/be generous Sentence – Billy coveted Bobby’s bike so

much that he decided to steal it! HW – New Sentence

SAT 64

Credulous (adj.) Disposed to believe too easily; gullible

Synonym – dupable; naïve Antonym – suspicious; suspecting Sentence – Since Susie was so credulous, she

was a telemarketer’s dream. HW: NEW SENTENCE

SAT 65

Curtail (verb) – to shorten; to cut short Synonym –abridge Antonym – extend; prolong Sentence – Mary decided to curtail her

presentation when it became obvious that her classmates were not paying attention to her.

HW – NEW SENTENCE

SAT 66

Culpable (adj.) – deserving blame or censure for doing wrong

Synonym – blame worthy; guilty Antonym – innocent; blameless Sentence – We all felt culpable when the

homeless old man died in the doorway of our apartment building.

HW – NEW SENTENCE SAT QUIZ – March 1st (Record the quiz in

your agenda. Leave your agenda out while you’re completing the warm up so that I can stamp it. Thanks!)

SAT 67

Cynic (noun) – a person who deeply distrusts human nature and believes that all people are motivated by selfishness

Synonym – skeptic (especially in regards to human nature); pessimist

Antonym – believer, optimist Sentence – When the rich men gave a million

dollars to the museum, cynics said he was merely trying to buy a reputation as a cultured person.

HW – NEW SENTENCE

SAT 68

Dearth (noun) – a lack; a scarcity Synonyms: insufficiency; lack Antonyms: abundance; excess Sentence – There was a dearth of joy at the

boring Christmas party. HW – NEW SENTENCE

SAT 69

Defame (verb) – to libel or slander; to ruin the good name/reputation of

Synonyms – discredit; bad-mouth; disgrace; scandalize

Antonym – commend; praise Sentence – The plant manager said that the

workers had defamed him when they claimed that he had made them work in unsafe conditions.

NEW SENTENCE HW – SAT WORDS COLLECTED/DUE

TOMORROW

SAT 70

Delude (verb) – to deceive the mind or judgment of

Synonym – fool; mislead Antonym – to be honest or truthful Sentence – The con man deluded us into

thinking he would make us rich, but we ended up broke.

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