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SAT Prep Cards
Common vocabulary that is used in SAT questions
| 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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