SSAT UPPER LEVEL VERBAL ACTUAL REVIEW

SSAT UPPER LEVEL "VERBAL" (ACTUAL

2025/2026) REVIEW

Recreation - <<>something done for fun, a hobby or game

Coalesce - <<>to come together (esce)

Congeal - <<>to thicken, or change from liquid to solid (con)

Consensus - <<>an agreement (con)

Contiguous - <<>lying side by side (con)

Crevice - <<>a narrow crack, especially in a rock

Decompose - <<>to rot or decay (de + com)

Deteriorate - <<>to get worse (de)

Dilute - <<>to weaken, especially by adding water to a solution (di)

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Distort - <<>to bend or twist something out of it's normal shape (dis)

Quibble - <<>to complain about little things

Rift - <<>a narrow break

Squalid - <<>appearing dirty and wretched

Cacophony - <<>jarring and unpleasing sounds (phon)

Evanescence - <<>lasting a short time, fading away gradually (esce)

Mercurial - <<>characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes, fickle

Volatile - <<>easily changeable, quick to explode

Circulate - <<>to move around freely, to spread widely (circ)

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Evacuate - <<>to leave or withdraw, as from a dangerous area

Exclusion - <<>not being allowed to enter or join (ex + clu)

Exile - <<>to banish someone from their native country (ex)

Fluctuate - <<>to shift back and forth without regularity

Linger - <<>to delay or be slow in leaving

Ramble - <<>to move or speak without direction (amb)

Recede - <<>to move away or become smaller (re)

Rout - <<>an overwhelming defeat or to defeat

Dingy - <<>dirty, dull, or shabby

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