'IMPORTANT VOCABULARIES'
(SAT /IELTS/ TOEFL/ ACT)
SAT PREPARATION 2019
1. DECEIT- falsehood
-When playing card games, many people use deceit to trick their opponents.
-Using deceit is an excellent way to lose respect from other individuals.
2. EVANESCENCE- disappear gradually/ fade
-Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
-The home we knew has disappeared, and its evanescence only heightens our desire for it.
3. DEPLORE- express strong disapproval / lament
-One may deplore his unfortunate history and wasted genius, but it is impossible to regret his exclusion from the government of England.
-A sorrowful supplication, in which the speakers deplore, not the fall of Jerusalem, but their own state of galling dependence and hopeless poverty.
4. DEPLORABLE- a very poor quality or condition/miserable
-The most deplorable weakness of Paul was his nepotism.
-Within a short period very deplorable results began to show themselves.
5. IMPOSTURE- pretending to be another person
-He offered to confess his imposture if he were promised his life, and the king accepted the terms.
6. TORMENT- treat cruelly/ torture
-After years of torment, she left her husband.
-No one could understand his inner torment.
7. OUTWIT- beat through cleverness/ outfox/outsmart
-The fox managed to outwit the hunter by hiding in a tree.
-They thought they had outwitted the new teacher.
8. CONTEMPTUOUS- insulting/scornful
-She did not sit down but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to go.
-One of the audience, with a contemptuous remark, took a handful of pebbles to pelt him with.
9. INURED- habituate/ cause to accept
-He inured himself to the vicissitudes of heat and cold, and voluntarily suffered the pains or inconveniences of hunger and thirst, fatigue and sleeplessness.
-The horses and cattle are of a degenerate type, small, ungainly and inured to neglect and hard usage.
10. DETER- to discourage/pretend from doing
- The failure of Jaureguy did not deter a young Catholic zealot, by name Balthazar Gerard, from attempting to assassinate the man whom he looked upon as the arch-enemy of God and the king.
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