SAT Prep Cards Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Cogent | convincing or reasonable |
Assertion | a declaration or statement |
Cohesive | quality of sticking together |
Didactic | intending to teach something |
Discourse | verbal expression or exchange; conversation |
Eloquence | the ability to speak vividly or persuasively |
Implication | the act of suggestion or hinting |
Lucid | easily understood or clear |
Pundit | an authority who expresses opinions |
Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
Arbiter | a judge who decides the outcome of something in dispute |
Biased | prejudiced |
Exculpate | to free from guilt or blame |
Incontrovertible | definite and not open to question |
Integrity | trustworthiness |
Jurisprudence | the philosophy or science of law |
Penitent | expressing remorse |
Plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible |
Substantiated | supported with proof or evidence |
Vindicated | freed from blame |
Condescending | treating others as inferior |
Contemptuous | Contemptuous |
Despotic | tyrannical, exercising absolute power |
Dictatorial | domineering and overbearing to an oppressive degree |
Disdain | contempt or scorn |
Haughty | arrogant |
Imperious | arrogantly overbearing |
Patronizing | treating in a condescending way |
Convoluted | intricate or complex |
Cryptic | hard to comprehend |
Futile | pointless |
Impede | slow the progress of |
Obscure | relatively unknown * or to conceal or make indistinct |
Quandary | state of uncertainty or perplexity |
Dilatory | habitually late |
Indolent | lazy |
Insipid | uninteresting or unchallenging |
Listless | lacking energy |
Torpor | laziness inactivity, dullness |
Embellish | to decorate |
Florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech |
Opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth |
Ornate | elaborately decorated |
Ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display |
Poignant | profoundly moving or touching |
Ample | describing a large amount of something |
Comprehensive | large in scope or content |
Copious | plentiful; having a large quantity |
Ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
Effusive | emotionally unrestrained; gushing |
Egregious | conspicuously bad |
Flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable |
Frenetic | wildly excited or active |
Gratuitous | given freely, unearned, or unwarranted |
Permeate | to flow or spread throughout something |
Pervasive | dispersed throughout |
Prodigious | enormous |
Replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
Superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
Alleviate | to ease a pain or burden |
Asylum | a place of retreat or safety |
Auspicious | favorable or promising |
Benevolent | well-meaning or generous |
Benign | kind and gentle |
Emollient | softening or soothing * something that softens or soothes |
Mollify | to calm or soothe |
Reclamation | act of making something useful again |
Sanction | to authorize or approve |
Astute | shrewd, clever |
Camouflage | to hide by blending in the surroundings |
Clandestine | secretive |
Coup | brilliantly executed plan |
Disingenuous | not straightforward; crafty |
Dubious | doubtful or unlikely true |
Fabricated | made, especially to deceive |
Hypocrisy | pretending to be something one isn’t; insincerity |
Ruse | a crafty trick |
Slander | false charges and malicious oral statements about someone |
Spurious | fake |
Stratagem | a clever trick to outwit |
Surreptitiously | done secretively |
Way | on guard; watchful |
Willy | cunning |
Assiduous | hard-working |
Compelling | forceful; urgently demanding attention |
Diligent | hard-working; exhibiting painstaking effort |
Dogged | stubbornly persisting |
Endure | to put up with or survive something |
Intrepid | courageous; fearless |
Maverick | a person who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
Obdurate | stubborn or inflexible |
Obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action |
Proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly |
Tenacity | perseverance |
Vitality | energy; power to survive |
Disparity | inequality or difference |
Servile | submissive; like a servant |
Suppressed | subdued or kept from being circulated |
Inconsequential | unimportant |
Superficial | conferenced only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow |
Tenuous | having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure; weak |
Trivial | of little importance or significance |
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