1. Vocabulary - SAT Words
Week 1
1. Calamity: an event causing great and o0en sudden damage
or distress; disaster
2. Servile: excessive willingness to please or serve others; overly
submissive
3. Assiduous: showing great care and perseverance; diligent,
persistent, hard‐working
4. Benign: gentle, harmless
5. Temerity: excessive confidence or boldness; audacity,
recklessness, fearlessness

2. CALAMITY
It is an understatement to call the earthquake in Chile a
tragic event; it is nothing short of a complete calamity.
an event causing great and o0en sudden
damage or distress;
disaster

3. SERVILE
Immediately a0er calamiCes, as countries suffer from the shocks of
inadequate resources, they are more likely to succumb to servility
as other countries come to their aid.
excessive willingness to please or
serve others;
overly submissive

4. ASSIDUOUS
“Beyonce dances very assiduously in the ‘bootylicious’
video” (wiki.answers.com).
showing great care and perseverance;
diligent, persistent, hard-working

5. BENIGN
The stranger was far less malignant than he appeared, and
turned out to be rather benign.
gentle, harmless

6. TEMERITY
With temerity, she swaggered up to the man on the bench,
whispered in his ear, “Could you please stop staring at me,” and
walked off.
excessive confidence or boldness;
audacity, recklessness, fearlessness