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Vocabulary Unit 17: Top SAT Words

Vocabulary Unit 17: Top SAT Words. Vocabulary.com. Hedonist. someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures NOUN Your parents might want to visit the museum while you want to hike in the forest, but your brother, the hedonist, just wants to lounge by the hotel pool and eat cake.

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Vocabulary Unit 17: Top SAT Words

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 17: Top SAT Words Vocabulary.com

  2. Hedonist • someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures • NOUN • Your parents might want to visit the museum while you want to hike in the forest, but your brother, the hedonist, just wants to lounge by the hotel pool and eat cake.

  3. Hypothesis • a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena • NOUN • In science, a hypothesis is an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation. Outside science, a theory or guess can also be called a hypothesis.

  4. Impetuous • characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation • ADJECTIVE • Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous.

  5. Impute • attribute or credit to • Verb • The verb impute can be used to blame someone for doing something bad, give credit for good work, or just tell it like it is, like when you impute your lateness to my not telling you where to meet me.

  6. Inconsequential • lacking worth or importance • ADJECTIVE • If something is considered of little worth or importance, it is inconsequential. If astronomers forecast a tremendous meteor shower, it might turn out to be no more than space junk, too inconsequential to record.

  7. Inevitable • incapable of being avoided or prevented • ADJECTIVE • rarely can be a NOUN N: “don’t argue with the inevitable” • If something is inevitable, it will definitely happen, like death or tax season.

  8. Intrepid • invulnerable to fear or intimidation • ADJECTIVE • Intrepid is just a fancy word for describing a person or action that is bold and brave. Super heroes are intrepid in their struggle for truth, justice and the American way.

  9. Intuitive • spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency • ADJECTIVE • If you're intuitive, • you can probably guess what this word means just by looking at it. No? Maybe you're not so intuitive, after all. Intuitive means having the ability to understand or know something without any direct evidence or reasoning process.

  10. Jubilation • a feeling of extreme joy • NOUN • Jubilation is a happy word. Where there is jubilation, there are laughter, smiles, laughs, joy, and gladness.

  11. Lobbyist someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer • NOUN • A lobbyist is someone hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause.

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