Abide
SAT List 1
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1. abide (v.) to put up with(Though he did not agree with the decision, Chuck decided to abide by it.) 2(v.) to remain (Despite the beating they’ve taken from the weather throughout the millennia, the mountains abide.)
2. delegate (v.) to hand over responsibility for something (The dean delegated the task of finding a new professor to a special hiring committee.)
3. cavort (v.) to leap about, behave boisterously (The adults ate their dinners on the patio, while the children cavorted around the pool.)
4. empathy (n.) sensitivity to another’s feelings as if they were one’s own (I feel such empathy for my sister when she’s in pain that I cry too.)
5. attain (v.) to achieve, arrive at (The athletes strived to attain their best times in their Olympic competition.)
6. jubilant (adj.) extremely joyful, happy (The crowd was jubilant when the firefighter carried the woman from the flaming building.)
7. fickle (adj.) shifting in character, inconstant (In Greek dramas, the fickle gods help Achilles one day, and then harm him the next.)
8. abrasive (adj.) rough, coarse, or harsh (When the students were teasing another student, the teacher spoke coarsely to them because they were taught to “Be Kind!”
9. rancid (adj.) having a terrible taste or smell (Rob was double-dog-dared to eat the rancid egg salad sandwich.)
10. hamper (v.) hinder, obstruct (Iron Man will hamper the Mandarin from taking away the power of his armor.
11. placate (v.) to ease the anger of, soothe (The man purchased a lollipop to placate his irritable son.)
12. plagiarism (n.) taking credit for someone else’s writings or ideas (When writing a book report, you MAY NOT go on-line to copy what someone else has written, because if you do, that is plagiarism and it is illegal!)
13. talisman (n.) lucky charm (Sometimes people pick up a penny if they see one on heads up, because they believe it might be a talisman.)
14. chaos (n.) absolute disorder (Mr. Thornton’s sudden departure for the lavatory plunged his classroom into chaos.)
15. placid (adj.) calm; peaceful (After the thunderstorm, the dark clouds cleared, and the wind stopped blowing so everything was placid.)
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