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SAT Vocab
SAT Vocab from Cracking
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cogent | convincing, reasonable |
| Discourse | verbal expression or exchange, conversation |
| Pundit | an authority who expresses his/her opinions |
| Arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue |
| Exculpate | to free from guilt or blame |
| Jurisprudence | the philosophy or science of law |
| Penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeds |
| Despotic | exercising absolute power, tyrannical |
| Dictatorial | domineering, oppressively overbearing |
| Imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
| Convoluted | intricate, complex |
| Quandary | a state of uncertainty or perplexity |
| Dilatory | habitually late |
| Torpor | laziness |
| Disparity | inequality in age, rank or degree; difference |
| Poignant | profoundly moving; touching |
| Ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
| Effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushy |
| Egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
| Frenetic | wildly excited or active |
| Pervasive | dispersed throughout |
| Auspicious | favorable, promising |
| Emollient | softening and soothing, something that softens or soothes |
| Reclamation | an act of making something useful again |
| Dubious | doubtful, of unlikely authenticity |
| Spurious | not genuine, counterfeit |
| Coup | a brilliantly executed plan |
| Disingenuous | not straightforward, crafty |
| Stratagem | a clever trcik used to deceive or outwit |
| Wily | cunning |
| Capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
| Tenuous | having little substance or strength, shaky, unsure, weak |
| Assiduous | hardworking |
| Dogged | stubbornly perserving |
| Intrepid | courgaeous, fearless |
| Maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
| Obdurate | stubborn, inflexible |
| Obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action |
| Inveterate | long established, deep rooted, habitual |
| Impinge | to hinder, interfere with |
| Lament | to express grief for, mourn |
| Sanction | an economic or military measure put in place to punish another counntry |
| Truncated | shortened, cut off |
| Dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge |
| Decorous | proper, marked by good taste |
| Equanimity | the quality of being calm and even tempered, composure |
| Preudent | exercising good judgement or common sense |
| Vilify | to make vicious statements aobut |
| Caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty |
| Fractious | quarrelsome, unruly |
| Incorrigible | unable to be reformed |
| Ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| Reprehensible | worthy of blame |
| Deleterious | having a harmful effect, injurious |
| Enmity | mutual hatred or ill will |
| Malfeasance | misconduct or wrongdoing, epecially by a public official |
| Putrid | rotten |
| Ponderous | extremely dull |
| Timorous | timid, feraful about the future |
| Trepidation | uncertainty, apprehension |
| Arid | describing a dry, rainless climate |
| Catalog | to make an itemized list of |
| Solvent | able to pay one's debts |
| Paradigm | an example or model |
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