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SAT's Most Important
SAT's Most IMportant Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| apt | appropriate or suitable in the circumstance |
| cajole, coax | persuade someone to do something by flattery |
| compendious | succinct |
| concur | agree |
| delineate | list or explain something precisely |
| digression | straying from the subject |
| elucidate | clarify |
| embroil | involve in an argument of conflict |
| empiric(al) | based on observation and experiment (not theory) |
| enumerate | to list something |
| epitome, epitomize | be a perfect example of something |
| equivocal and ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| exemplar | epitome, epitomize |
| exhort | encourage |
| expedient | useful |
| fathom | understand |
| flagrant | evidently offensive |
| floridity | bright |
| incongruity, incongruous | not in harmony with surroundings |
| ineffable | impossible to express in words |
| innuendo | implicit suggestion |
| laconic | concise |
| lucid | clear and easily understood |
| nebulous | vague, fogy |
| nuance | a subtle difference in something |
| paradigm | a typical example of something |
| prattle | babble on about something |
| pronouncement | to announce something |
| proponent | supporter |
| prosaic | ordinary |
| rebuttal | a contradiction |
| recant | reject |
| rescind | annul |
| repudiate | reject |
| rhetoric(al) | elegant speech |
| scrutinize | examine carefully |
| simile | comparison |
| tangential | digressive, irrelevant |
| treatise | extensive written argument about some topic |
| verbose | wordy |
| aura | feeling of the air |
| bombastic | pompous |
| buoyant | cheerful, floating |
| callous | insensitive |
| cantankerous(ness) | irritable |
| capricious | fickle |
| caustic | bitter |
| convivial | sociable, lively |
| demonstrative | openly emotional |
| despondent | sad, depressed |
| diffident, diffidence | shy |
| discomfited | disappointed, defeated |
| disillusionment | disappointed |
| dispassionate | unemotional |
| elated, elation | joyful |
| evoke | stir up |
| felicitous | apt |
| forlorn | sad |
| fortitude | courage |
| furor | commotion, anger |
| histrionic | excessively dramatic or emotional |
| idyllic | simply tranquil |
| impetuous | impulsive |
| irate | angry |
| jaded | tired, bored |
| jocular | cheerful |
| jovial | cheerful |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| melancholy | depressed |
| mercurial | fickle |
| morose | depressed |
| peevish | unpleasant |
| penchant | preference |
| perfunctory | done routinely with little interest or care |
| petulant | irritable |
| profundity, profound | intense, |
| propensity | inclinations, tendency |
| Impilcit | Implied though not plainly expressed |
| subtle | Precise |
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