ISEE Upper Level VOCABULARY
LIST EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
abandon - ANSWER✔✔-leave someone who needs or counts on you Abate - ANSWER✔✔-become less in amount or intensity abbreviate - ANSWER✔✔-shorten abduct - ANSWER✔✔-take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom abdicate - ANSWER✔✔-give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations abet - ANSWER✔✔-assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing abide - ANSWER✔✔-put up with something or somebody unpleasant abridge - ANSWER✔✔-to shorten 1 / 4
absolve - ANSWER✔✔-let off the hook absurd - ANSWER✔✔-inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense **abundant - ANSWER✔✔-present in great quantity accelerate - ANSWER✔✔-move faster **acclaim - ANSWER✔✔-enthusiastic approval acclimate - ANSWER✔✔-adjust to climate or environment; adapt accuse - ANSWER✔✔-blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against accustom - ANSWER✔✔-To make familiar achieve - ANSWER✔✔-to gain with effort acknowledge - ANSWER✔✔-accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority acquit - ANSWER✔✔-pronounce not guilty of criminal charges acrid - ANSWER✔✔-harsh in taste or odor; sharp in manner or temper adamant - ANSWER✔✔-unyielding; firm in opinion adapt - ANSWER✔✔-make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose admire - ANSWER✔✔-feel admiration for 2 / 4
**admonish - ANSWER✔✔-warn strongly aesthetic - ANSWER✔✔-pertaining to beauty affable - ANSWER✔✔-diffusing warmth and friendliness affection - ANSWER✔✔-a fond or tender feeling affluent - ANSWER✔✔-rich, wealthy **agenda - ANSWER✔✔-a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to agressive - ANSWER✔✔-quick to attack; inclined to hostile actions; assertive; bold and energetic agile - ANSWER✔✔-moving quickly and lightly agony - ANSWER✔✔-intense feelings of suffering allege - ANSWER✔✔-to declare that something is true without proof alleviate - ANSWER✔✔-provide physical relief, as from pain allocate - ANSWER✔✔-assign; set apart for a particular purpose aloof - ANSWER✔✔-reserved, distant alter - ANSWER✔✔-cause to change **altrustic - ANSWER✔✔-Unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others 3 / 4
amass - ANSWER✔✔-collect or gather ambiguous - ANSWER✔✔-open to two or more interpretations ambush - ANSWER✔✔-a surprise attack amend - ANSWER✔✔-to make better **ameliorate - ANSWER✔✔-to make better amiable - ANSWER✔✔-friendly amoral - ANSWER✔✔-nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong anology - ANSWER✔✔-comparison made between two things to show how they are alike ancestor - ANSWER✔✔-someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) angst - ANSWER✔✔-anxiety; fear; dread anguish - ANSWER✔✔-extreme mental distress announcement - ANSWER✔✔-a formal public statement ancient - ANSWER✔✔-very old annoy - ANSWER✔✔-to bother; to make angry by repeated noise or action anomaly - ANSWER✔✔-deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
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