Tuesday, October 26, 2010

sat word list

Abase-to humiliate,degrade (after being overthrown and abased the deposed leader offered to bow down to his conqueror

Abate- to reduce, lessen (The rain poured down for a while then abated)

Abdicate- to give up a position, usually one of leadership (when he realized that the revolutionaries would surely win, the king abdicated his throne)

abduct - to kidnap ,take by force (the evildoers abducted the fairy princess from her

Aberration something that differs from the norm (in 1918 ,the boston red sox won the world series but the success turned out to be an abberration, and the red sox have not a world series since)

Abet- to hate, detest (because he always wound up kicking himself in the head when he tried to play soccer, Oswald began to abhor to sport

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