Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #83.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

U – Z: SAT Words 233

1. unavailable


2. unavoidable


3. underestimate


4. undermine


5. undesirable


6. unfetter


7. unheralded


8. universal


9. unparalleled


10. unresolved


11. unutterable


12. upstart

a. objectionable

b. unpredicted

c. presumptuous

d. generic

e. unequaled

f. undetermined

g. unreachable

h. inexpressible

i. inevitable

j. weaken

k. liberate

l. undervalue

urbanized (OER bin YZD) adj.changed from countrylike to citylike in charac-
ter; citified

• The area had only recently become urbanized,having been mostly farms
  less than a generation ago.


• The influx of industry was largely responsible for the urbanizedcharacter of
  Allentown.
  urge(OERJ) vt. 1. to plead, allege, strongly advocate; 2. strongly recommend;
  compel; 3. to incite or provoke


• Jeannie urgedHorace to change his mind and visit the zoo.


• Philip of Macedon urgeshis son, Alexander, to go to medical school so that
  he can become a doctor.


• The rabble-rousers urgedthe crowd to take arms against the government.
  [-d, urging] [Syn. press, exhort]
  Utopia(yoo TOH pee uh) n. 1. an imaginary island from a book of the same
  name by Sir Thomas More, 1516; 2. any idealized place; symbol of perfection;
  paradise


• Utopiawas the name Sir Thomas More gave to his imaginary island.


• Many believe that Tahiti is as close as one can come to a utopiain real life;
  others would select Hawaii.
  [utopian adj.]