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F-O english words
250 hardest SAT words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fallacious | incorrect, misleading |
| fastidious | demanding, having high and often unattainable standards |
| fatuous | silly, foolish |
| fecund | fruitful, fertile |
| feral | wild, savage |
| fetid | having a foul odor |
| fractious | troublesome or irritable |
| garrulous | talkative, wordy |
| grandiloquence | lofty, pompous language |
| gregarious | drawn to the company of others, sociable |
| iconoclast | one who attacks common beliefs or institutions |
| ignominious | humiliating, disgracing |
| impassive | stoic, not susceptible to suffering |
| imperious | commanding, domineering |
| impertinent | rude, insolent |
| impervious | impenetrable, incapable of being affected |
| impinge | to impact, affect, make an impression |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased or mitigated |
| impudent | casually rude, insolent, impertinent |
| incontrovertible | indisputable |
| indefatigable | incapable of defeat, failure, decay |
| ineffable | unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words |
| inexorable | incapable of being persuaded or placated |
| ingenuous | not devious; innocent and candid |
| iniquity | wickedness or sin |
| insidious | appealing but imperceptibly harmful, seductive |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, often on an extreme opinion |
| inure | to cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation |
| invective | an angry verbal attack |
| inveterate | stubbornly established by habit |
| laconic | terse in speech or writing |
| languid | sluggish from fatigue or weakness |
| largess | the generous giving of lavish gifts |
| latent | hidden, but capable of being exposed |
| licentious | displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints |
| maelstrom | a destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects |
| magnanimous | noble, generous |
| malevolent | wanting harm to befall others |
| manifold | diverse, varied |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental |
| mawkish | characterized by sick sentimentality |
| mendacious | having a lying, false character |
| mercurial | characterized by rapid change or temperamentality |
| modicum | a small amount of something |
| morass | a wet swampy bog |
| munificence | generosity in giving |
| myriad | consisting of a very great number |
| nascent | in the process of being born or coming into existence |
| nefarious | heinously villainous |
| neophyte | someone who is young or inexperienced |
| obdurate | unyielding to persuasion or moral influences |
| obfuscate | to render incomprehensible |
| oblique | diverging from a straight line or course, not straightforward |
| obsequious | excessively compliant or submissive |
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