SAT Reading Verbal Vocab

dazzling

dazzling

extremely bright or extremely impressive

Withdraw

Remove, take away, убрать, взымать

обычно в контексте денег - … up to 200$ from ATMs

Но и просто:

UN forces … from province (=UN forces left the province)

usually about removing something because of official decision

frivolous

not having any serious purpose or value (легкомысленный, неважный)

advocate, proponent

защитник, сторонник

diminish

make or become less

I don’t want to … her achievements but …

succumb

поддаться (eg He succumbed to pneumonia = he died of pneumonia)

dictate

determine

disregard

pay no attention to; ignore.

The jury was told to … the comments made by the witness.

supplant

вытеснять, supersede, replace completely

salvage

save, rescue

amateur

non-professional (любитель)

velocity

speed

mastery

comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity, мастерство

scorn

презрение

jubilation

joy, ликование

docile

послушный

adept

искусный

precocious

рано развитый

exert

вызывать, влиять, оказывать

restrain

prevent, сдерживать, ограничивать

thwart

prevent (someone) from accomplishing something, stop

inscribe

надпись

transmit

передавать

disturb

interrupt, interfere

refine

improve

purify

clean (очищать)

confound

confuse, сбивать с толку, ставить в тупик

deceive

to make someone believe something that is not true

govern

control, руководить

elect

choose, vote, избирать

suppress

подавлять, пресекать

acquire

to buy or obtain the right to sell or publish something, приобретать, получать

attain

reach, achieve, accomplish

observe

notice, наблюдать

plea for

request which is made in an urgent and emotional manner, appeal, entreaty

hold down

to keep someone or something in a particular place or position and to stop him, her, or it from moving

engage with

to become involved with (someone or something)

ornithology

study of birds

charge

in electricity, positive or negative (заряд)

hard data

any data that is quantitative, meaning this data can be measured

empirical

relying on hard data

indigenous

native

predisposed

to be more likely than other people to have something or to behave in some way, to have a tendency toward something

advance a claim, posit

to put forward or present a statement or argument as true or valid

proffer

to offer something such as advice or an explanation/opinion (e.g. give advice)

speculate, hypothesize

to form opinions about something without having the necessary information or facts, to make guesses

bolster a claim, buttress a claim, substantiate a claim

support a claim

ambivalence

having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action

(noun)

skepticism

doubt that something is true or useful

rebut, refute

to argue/prove/claim that a statement is false

grapple with

to try to deal with or to begin to understand a difficult problem or subject

mull over, ruminate about

to think carefully about something for a long time

converge, integrate, intersect

come together

diverge

moving apart

infer

conclude

surmise, conjecture

both noun and verb

suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it

to guess, based on the appearance of a situation and not on proof

like there was a … about a marriage in social media

cite, attribute

provide sources

multitude, plethora, profusion

large amount

dearth, paucity

small amount

disparate, heterogeneous, eclectic

different, diverse

conspicuous, distinctive, salient

noticeable, striking

benign, innocuous

harmless

inherent, innate, intrinsic, inborn

врожденный, неотъемлемый

authentic

genuine, подлинный

adversary

opponent

centrality

центральность, a state of being central or essential

complement

дополнять

comprehensive, thorough

careful about detail, inclusive, complete

contingent

dependent (e.g. outdoor activities are dependent on the weather)

confer

наделять, give, grant

corollary

an idea, argument, or fact that results directly from it, вывод, заключение

cultivate

grow, raise

disposition

personality or arrangement

impede, inhibit

prevent

indigenous

native

judicial

судебный, relating to the administration of justice/law

marginal

minor and not important; not central/relating to or at the edge or margin

mitigate

make something less severe

preliminary

предварительный, done in preparation for something fuller or more important

prevail

win

prevalent, prevailing

widespread, generally accepted

reciprocate

respond to an action or behavior with the same action/behavior

rudimentary

very basic

successor

преемник

critic/criticism

a person, who writes comments - either positive or negative

discern

recognize, distinguish

ineffable

incapable of being expressed in words

infallible

unable to be wrong

ingenuous

naive

inimitable

unique, one-of-a-kind

innocuous

harmless

unassuming

modest

unqualified

lack the skills

vertable

позвоночные

invertable

беспозвоночные

reciprocate

respond with the same gesture/action, mutual help

retaliate

to hurt someone or do something harmful to someone because they have done or said something harmful to you, revenge

deviate

to do something that is different from the usual or common way of behaving

renunciation

the fact of saying that you no longer support or have a connection with someone or something, отказ/отречение

responsiveness to

having a quick or positive reaction to something or someone