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SAT VOCAB LIST
my SAT word vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| portly | round in shape, but not grossly fat; also dignified in manner |
| posthumous | occuring after death |
| precedent | something occuring before that may serve as a model for subsequent, similar acts; antecedent |
| prevaricate | to stray from the truth; to lie or equivocate |
| probity | sticking to noble ideals; incorruptibility; uprightness |
| proclivity | natural inclination or tendency toward; inherent leaning toward something objectionable |
| profess | to delcare or affirm; also to pretend |
| prolific | extremely fruitful or productve; fertile, fecund |
| propinquity | proximity or nearness to relationship; contiguity |
| propitiate | to get into someones good graces or to earn someones goodwill; to appease, to gain favor |
| prosaic | of facts, therefore, not imaginative or original; everyday, ordinary; also dull, banal |
| protuberent | swelling or bulging out; obstructive |
| prurient | |
| puerile | juvenile or immature; silly |
| punctilious | precise about observing customs and rule; conventional scrupulously exact |
| pungent | extremely painful or poigant (said of odors, taste, or words); biting; acrid caustic |
| puollanimous | very timid cowardly; lacking forcefulness |