DSAT vocab (4-6)

persecution

n. the act of harassing or oppressing based on one’s religion, gender, race, or political belief

creed

n. a system of beliefs

fragmentary

adj. characterized as incomplete

sublunary

adj. pertaining to everything on Earth

negation

n. opposite

appall

v. to horrify

evangel

n. a doctrine taken as a guide

enfranchisement

n. the right to vote

agitate

v. to disturb or excite emotionally

lament

v. to express grief

proficient

adj. very competent

curator

n. a person in charge of a museum or art collection

herbivore

adj. feeding on plants

invertebrate

adj. relating to creatures without a backbone

devour

v. to eat up hungrily

austere

adj. without excess or luxury

obsolescence

n. the state of being out of date

egregious

adj. shocking in a bad way

perpetuate

v. to make something continue forever

betake

v. to cause to go

admonition

a chastisement

eloquent

adj. characterized to be very expressive verbally

exponent

n. an advocate

besiege

v. to be surrounded in attack

correctitude

n. correctness in behavior

temperament

n. the mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person

colloquial

adj. relating to informal speech

cow

v. to frighten with threats

discomfiture

n. confusion

abject

adj. utterly hopeless

sling

v. to throw (something like a rock)

javelin

a throwing spear

foreshadow

v. to warn of

retention

n. keeping possession of

imprudent

adj. characterized as being careless

lurch

v. to sway abruptly

levitation

n. rising or floating in the air

whisk

v. to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke

ramify

v. to divide or spread out in a branch-like form

perch

v. to rest on some elevated position

locomotion

n. the ability move from place to place or the movement itself

incline

n. a sloped surface

erractic

adj. to be unpredictable

sanction

v. to give approval to

inefficacious

adj. to be inefficient

constitution

n. the physical characteristics of a person

usurp

v. to take (usually a position of power) by force

sanity

n. the soundness of mind

elaborate

adj. to be very complicated

postulate

v. to assume with no proof

circadian

adj. of the 24-hour cycle of a day

abysmal

adj. to be extremely bad

articulate

adj. to be very expressive

panacea

n. a remedy for all diseases

taut

adj. to be tightly drawn

susceptible

adj. yielding readily to

feline

adj. pertaining to cats

yearning

n. a deep desire for something

sustenance

n. something taken sustains health or life

cairn

n. a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, or post