Grade 9 : Week Two SAT Vocabulary

to give up a position, right, or power

• blight

• abdicate

• foetid

• fervid

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.

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.

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.

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.

to decline in vigor, strength, or interest

• blithe

• flag

• tawdry

• specious

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)

something subtle

• Specious

• tawdry

• nuance

• blithe

Answer explanation

nuance = new + ounce.. an ounce is very small ... hence a very small difference..

easily angered

• tawdry

• Irascible

• lament

• fervid

intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous

• insidious

• blithe

• dour

• opulent