SAT Vocab List 2

disdain

• unclear; undecided

• harmless

• contempt or scorn for something

• to improve

innocuous

• safe or harmless

• unclear; undecided

• to improve

• to praise

banal

• to waste away from lack of use

• lack of government or rule

• contempt for something

• dull or ordinary - common

atrophy

• to praise

• to waste away from lack of use

• common, dull, ordinary

• to modernize

anarchy

• chaos, lack of government

• overly submissive to someone

• harmless; insignificant

• contempt for something

ameliorate

• unclear; undecided

• harmless, safe

• lack of government

• to improve or make better

innovate

• harmless

• lacking originality

• to waste away from lack of use

• modernize or make changes to

servile

• commonplace, dull or ordinary

• harmless, insignificant

• to improve

• overly submissive

extol

• unclear; undecided

• to praise or laud

• contempt for something

• to make changes to or modernize

ambiguous

• overly submissive

• safe or harmless

• unclear; undecided

• contempt for something