SAT vocabulary words

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Abject   cast down, spiritless  
Aesthetic   sensitive to beauty  
Alacrity   a cheerful briskness  
Auspicious   lucky, promising, favorable  
Blatant   obvious, obtrusive  
Capitulate   surrender on terms agreed upon, yield  
Cogent   persuasive, brilliantly compelling  
Conjecture   supposition, opinion  
Cursory   hurried, rapid, superficial  
Decorous   proper, becoming, suitable  
Diffident   shy, timid  
Disdain   despise, think him unworthy  
Docile   obedient, manageable, unresisting  
Equanimity   composure, calm temper, evenness of mind  
Facade   front, false exterior  
Facetious   inappropriately witty  
Fastidious   particular, meticulous, hard to please  
Fatuous   silly, complacently foolish  
Flaunt   display, show off, boast of  
Furtive   sly, stealthy, shifty  
Gregarious   good mixer, enjoy meeting people  
Harangue   noisy, pompous speech  
Idiosyncrasy   oddness, eccentricity  
Illicit   unlawful, furtive  
Importune   insistently, begged, persistently urged  
Incredulous   skeptical, disbelieving  
Inexorable   inflexible, unyielding  
Invective   abuse, angry reproach  
Loquacious   talkative, garrulous  
Ludicrous   laughable, ridiculous  
Martinet   strict discipline  
Maudlin   weakly sentimental  
Nebulous   vague, hazy  
Obsequious   servily attentive, fawning  
Ostracize   banned from social and political favor  
Panacea   cure-all  
Pander   to provide gratification to another's vice  
Placate   appease, pacify  
Prodigious   hugh, monstrous, mighty  
Prolific   inventive, fertile, productive  
Propensity   leaning, bent, natural inclination  
Prudent   wisely cautious  
Redundant   overly wordy  
Surreptitious   without proper authority, by sly, clandestine  
Taciturn   reserve, habitually silent  
Truculent   fierce, savage, cruel  
Vacillate   hesitate, waver, change  
Glib   thoughtlessly, talkative, suspiciously, fluent  


   

 
 

 
 

 

 
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