SAT VOCAB (apr. 24)

Boon

Something beneficial that is bestowed; blessing

Inimical

Injurious; unfriendly

Pernicious

Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly

Bane

A cause of death, destruction, or ruin

Toxic

Poisonous; harmful

Salutary

Designed to effect an improvement; remedial

Panacea

A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties

Adulterate

To make impure or inferior by adding extraneous, unusual, or improper ingredients.

Exorcise

To expel an evil spirit

Vitiate

To impair the value or quality of

Prone

Tending; inclined; lying face downward

Contingent

Dependent upon conditions not yet established; likely

Feasible

Capable of being accomplished; suitable; plausible

Presumably

By reasonable assumption; probably; likely

Preposterous

Contrary to nature or common sense; absurd

Implausible

Not valid, likely, or acceptable; difficult to believe.

Proclivity

A natural inclination or tendency

Eventuality

A possible event; possibility

Perchance

Perhaps; possibly

Inconceivable

Incapable of being imagined or comprehended

Protean

Readily taking on a different shape, form, or character

Evolve

To develop or achieve gradually; devise

Metamorphosis

A marked change in appearance, character, or function

Immutable

Not subject or susceptible to change

Modulate

It regulate, adjust, or adapt to a certain proportion; soften

Volatile

Changeable; fickle; explosive

Malleable

Capable of being altered or influenced

Sporadic

Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order

Inveterate

Firmly establish by having existed for a long time fixed in habit, custom, or practice

Transmute

To change from one form, nature, or state to another