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SAT Vocabulary 61-70. SAT 61. Contrite (adj.) – feeling sorrow and regret for one’s sins or offenses; penitent Synonym – guilt; remorse Antonym – apathetic Sentence – It was hard for Arthur to stay angry with his sister for breaking his game since she was so genuinely contrite. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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SAT VOCABULARY 61-70
SAT 61
Contrite (adj.) – feeling sorrow and regret for one’s sins or offenses; penitent
Synonym – guilt; remorse Antonym – apathetic Sentence – It was hard for Arthur to stay
angry with his sister for breaking his game since she was so genuinely contrite.
HW – New Sentence
SAT 62
Countenance (noun) – face; facial expression Synonyms – look/appearance of face; visage Antonyms – N/A Sentence – One look at Mary’s contorted
countenance told her mother that something terrible had happened.
NEW SENTENCE
SAT 63
Covet (verb) – to wish for enviously Synonym – crave; desire strongly/jealously Antonym – give up/be generous Sentence – Billy coveted Bobby’s bike so
much that he decided to steal it! HW – New Sentence
SAT 64
Credulous (adj.) Disposed to believe too easily; gullible
Synonym – dupable; naïve Antonym – suspicious; suspecting Sentence – Since Susie was so credulous, she
was a telemarketer’s dream. HW: NEW SENTENCE
SAT 65
Curtail (verb) – to shorten; to cut short Synonym –abridge Antonym – extend; prolong Sentence – Mary decided to curtail her
presentation when it became obvious that her classmates were not paying attention to her.
HW – NEW SENTENCE
SAT 66
Culpable (adj.) – deserving blame or censure for doing wrong
Synonym – blame worthy; guilty Antonym – innocent; blameless Sentence – We all felt culpable when the
homeless old man died in the doorway of our apartment building.
HW – NEW SENTENCE SAT QUIZ – March 1st (Record the quiz in
your agenda. Leave your agenda out while you’re completing the warm up so that I can stamp it. Thanks!)
SAT 67
Cynic (noun) – a person who deeply distrusts human nature and believes that all people are motivated by selfishness
Synonym – skeptic (especially in regards to human nature); pessimist
Antonym – believer, optimist Sentence – When the rich men gave a million
dollars to the museum, cynics said he was merely trying to buy a reputation as a cultured person.
HW – NEW SENTENCE
SAT 68
Dearth (noun) – a lack; a scarcity Synonyms: insufficiency; lack Antonyms: abundance; excess Sentence – There was a dearth of joy at the
boring Christmas party. HW – NEW SENTENCE
SAT 69
Defame (verb) – to libel or slander; to ruin the good name/reputation of
Synonyms – discredit; bad-mouth; disgrace; scandalize
Antonym – commend; praise Sentence – The plant manager said that the
workers had defamed him when they claimed that he had made them work in unsafe conditions.
NEW SENTENCE HW – SAT WORDS COLLECTED/DUE
TOMORROW
SAT 70
Delude (verb) – to deceive the mind or judgment of
Synonym – fool; mislead Antonym – to be honest or truthful Sentence – The con man deluded us into
thinking he would make us rich, but we ended up broke.
HW – NEW Sentence Turn in your notebooks!