Ninth Grade Vocabulary List

Words Definitions SAT selections

1. engender to bring into existence; give rise to cause to exist

2. vitiate to reduce the value or impair the quality of make impure
calm someone
3. pacify to ease the anger or agitation of
down
4. dearth a scarce supply; a lack lack
being disinclined to exert oneself; habitually
5. indolence lazy
lazy

damaged or
6. marred damaged, especially disfiguring damage
bruised
7. indolent disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy lazy
8. supercilious feeling or showing haughty disdain haughty
to spend wastefully or extravagantly;
9. squander waste
dissipate
expressing or characterized by warmth of
10. ardent passionate
feeling; passionate

11. beset to trouble persistently; harass harass

appearance-especially the expression of the
12. countenance face
face
performed with haste and scant attention to
13. cursory hasty
detail
a rare personal quality attributed to leaders
magical
14. charisma who arouse fervent popular devotion and
attractiveness
enthusiasm
a leader who obtains power by means of
rabble-rousing
15. demagogue impassioned appeals to the emotions and
leader
prejudices of the populace
 to allay the anger of, especially by making
16. placate pacify
concessions; appease
17. indigenous intrinsic; innate native
an intricate structure of interconnecting
18. labyrinth passages through which it is difficult to find maze
one's way
to increase the severity, violence, or
19. exacerbate make worse
bitterness of; aggravate
20. incense to cause to be extremely angry; infuriate make very angry

21. daunt to abate the courage of; discourage make fearful

of or relating to basic facts or principles;
22. rudimentary basic
elementary
23. credulous disposed to believe too readily; gullible eager to believe
24. lucid easily understood; intelligible easy to understand
25. sacrosanct regarded as sacred and inviolable sacred

26. docile ready and willing to be taught; teachable easily taught

27. impartial not partial or biased; unprejudiced fair
an act of instance that may be used as an
28. precedent example in dealing with subsequent similar earlier example
instances
based on or making use of figures of speech; based on figures of
29. figurative
metaphorical speech
30. reiterate to say or do again or repeatedly say again

careful in regard to one's own interest;

31. prudent careful
provident
failure to exercise the degree of care
32. negligence considered reasonable under the carelessness
circumstances; carelessness
33. innocuous having no adverse effect; harmless harmless
lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness; careless; not
34. lax
careless diligent
to cause to happen, especially suddenly or cause to happen
35. precipitate
prematurely abruptly
 say confusing
36. equivocate to avoid making an explicit statement
things
37. assiduous constant in application or attention; diligent hard working
38. aptitude an inherent ability, as for learning; a talent natural ability
heedful of circumstances and potential
39. circumspect cautious
consequences; prudent
magical change in
40. metamorphosis a transformation, as by magic or sorcery
form

41. substantive not imaginary; actual; real having substance

favoritism shown or patronage granted to
42. nepotism favoritism
relatives, as in business
marked by or given to anxious care and often
43. solicitous eager and attentive
hovering attentiveness
44. inclement stormy; showing no clemency; unmerciful bad, as in weather
not clearly understood or expressed;
45. obscure hard to understand
ambiguous or vague

46. jeopardy risk of loss or injury; peril or danger danger

47. nebulous lacking definite form or limits; vague vague
48. diverse differing one from another varied
a horizontal layer of material, especially one
49. stratum of several parallel layers arranged one on top layer
of another
50. anarchy absence of any form of political authority lawlessness

bitter, sharp, ill-natured animosity, especially

51. acrimonious harsh
as it is exhibited in speech or behavior
52. abstruse difficult to understand; recondite hard to understand
53. elusive difficult to define or describe hard to pin down
naturally
54. taciturn habitually untalkative
untalkative
lasting very short
55. ephemeral lasting for a markedly brief time
time
 having to do with
56. quantitative of or relating to number or quantity
quantity
57. relegate to send to a place of exile; banish banish
to make or attempt to make compatible;
58. conciliatory making peace
reconcile
to take possession of or make use of
take without
59. appropriate exclusively for oneself, often without
permission
permission
60. concurrent happening at the same time parallel

involvement as an accomplice in a participation in

61. complicity
questionable act or a crime wrongdoing
a broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to
62. lampoon satirize
attack a person, a group or an institution
63. reparation the act or process of making amends paying back
narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; narrow in point of
64. parochial
provincial vies
something suggestive of a large block of
massive and
65. monolithic stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or
unyielding
uniformity

male head of
66. patriarch a man who rules a family, or tribe
family
having to do with
67. sensory of or relating to the senses or sensation
the senses
having to do with
68. qualitative of, relating to, or concerning quality
quality
69. misanthropic hating or mistrusting humankind hating mankind
70. felicity great happiness; bliss happiness
 full of or exhibiting servile compliance;
71. obsequious fawning
fawning
marked by or having equity; just and
72. equitable fair
impartial
take property
73. expropriate to deprive of possession officially
officially
74. noxious harmful to living things; injurious to health harmful
demonstrating the qualities idealized by
75. chivalrous knighthood, bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallant
gallantry toward women