E1 Weeks 1-5 SAT Words

awry

off course; twisted to one side

• The hunter's bullet went _____ . Instead of hitting the bear, it hit his truck.

• When we couldn't find a restaurant, our dinner plans went _____ .

• The old man's hat was _____ ; it had dipped in front of his left eye.

axiom

self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying

"Everything that is living dies" is an _____ .

An _____in geometry is a rule that doesn't have to be proved because its truth is accepted as obvious, self-evident, or unprovable.

banal

unoriginal; ordinary

• The dinner conversation was so _____ that Amanda fell asleep in her dessert dish.

• What made Yu fall asleep was the _____ of the dinner conversation.

bane

poison; torment; cause of harm

_____means poison (wolfbane is a kind of poisonous plant), but the word is usually used figuratively. To say that someone is the _____ of your existence is to say that that person poisons your enjoyment of life.

_____ means harmful.

cacophony

harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds

• The parade's two marching bands played simultaneously; the resulting _____ drove many spectators to tears.

cadence

rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds

• We wished the tone of Irwin's words would have a more pleasing _____ , but he spoke in a dull monotone.

daunt

to make fearful; to intimidate

• The steepness of the mountain _____ the team of amateur climbers, who hadn't realized what they were in for.

• The size of the players on the visiting team was _____; the players on the home team began to perspire nervously.

• The rescue crew was _____ by the flames and ran into the burning house to look for survivors. They were _____ in their effort to save the people inside.

dearth

lack; scarcity

• There is no _____ of comedy at a convention of clowns.

• When there is a _____ of food, many people may starve.

• There was a _____ of gaiety at the boring Christmas party.

ebullient

boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant

• Cammie was _____ when her fairy godmother said she could use one of her three wishes to wish for three more wishes.

eccentric

not conventional; a little kooky; irregular

• The _____ inventor spent all his waking hours fiddling with what he said was a time machine but was actually just an old telephone booth.

• Fred's political views are _____: He believes that we should have kings instead of presidents and that the government should raise money by holding bake sales.

• The rocket followed an _____ course; first it veered in one direction, then it veered in another, and then it crashed.