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SAT Vocab Will Zhang
SAT Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anarchy | Without Rule |
| Acerbic | Sour |
| Amiable | Friendly |
| Ambiguus | Having 2 meanings |
| animate | to bring to life |
| antecedent | coming or existing before |
| misanthrope | distrusts people; hates society |
| Antigen | vaccine |
| apogee | farthest point away |
| monarch | king |
| audition | hearing |
| autocrat | self ruling; dictator |
| befuddle | confuse |
| bellicose | aggressive |
| benevolent | good willed |
| cataclysm | violent event |
| intercept | stop someone |
| recede | move back |
| eccentric | odd |
| anachronism | historical inaccuracy |
| circumspect | cautious |
| excise | to cut out |
| reclaim | call back |
| reclusive | close off |
| recognize | know from before |
| collude | conspire with |
| beaurocracy | administrative rule |
| accrue | grow |
| credo | system of belief |
| cursory | quick |
| deflate | collapse |
| divine | heavenly |
| democracy | gov't by the ppl |
| diaphanous | transparent |
| indict | accuse |
| disgress | go off topic |
| doctrine | belief |
| condone | allow |
| deduce | theorize |
| dysphoria | depression |
| engender | produce |
| endemic | native |
| epicenter | central location |
| equivocal | unclear |
| euphemism | nicer word to replace meaner one |
| egress | exit |
| extraneous | irrelevent |
| confabulate | chat |
| facilitate | make easy |
| aquifer | water container |
| diffident | shy |
| filial | family |
| confluence | flowing together |
| foresee | anticipate |
| refractory | stubborn |
| congenital | from birth |
| transgression | crime |
| posthumous | after death |
| ignominy | shame |
| interject | insert |
| introvert | shy person |
| monotheism | belief in oone god |
| conjecture | guess |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| predilection | preference |
| levity | lighthearted, fun |
| loquacious | wordy |
| lucid | clear minded |
| magnanimous | generous |
| malign | slander |
| migrant | wandering |
| misnomer | wrong name |
| admonish | caution |
| monopoly | unrivalled company |
| morbid | gloomy |
| amorphous | irregular |
| nascent | just born |
| neologism | new expression |
| pernicious | evil |
| patronym | father |
| obstruct | block |
| pacify | calm |
| pandemic | global epidemic |
| paradox | contradiction |
| empathy | compassion |
| permeate | seep thru |
| pericardium | around the heart |
| fanfare | flashy display |
| bibliophile | book lover |
| euphonious | pleasant sounding |
| replete | abundant |
| deplorable | lamentable |
| impede | prevent |
| polytheism | belief in many gods |
| transpose | interchange |
| portent | omen |
| postpartum | after childbirth |
| prenatal | before birth |
| primal | original |
| prolific | fruitful |
| psychosis | mental disrder |
| fruitful | productive |
| fruitless | unproductive; useless |
| lament | grief |
| inquisitive | cuirious |
| retract | take back |
| rectilinear | having straight lines |
| ridicule | mock |
| disrupt | cause disorder |
| sacrosanct | protected by the church |
| salubrious | healthy |
| sated | fully satisfied |
| conscience | knowing morality |
| inscribe | write; mark with |
| resent | feel hurt |
| obsequious | servile |
| servile | willing to serve others |
| solace | comfort |
| sophistry | ingenious argument |
| perspicacious | insightful |
| spirited | witty, lively |
| stricture | critical remark |
| instruction | teaching |
| subverisve | working against |
| supersede | place above |
| symbiotic | mutually dependent |
| tangenital | barely touching |
| tenable | defensible |
| telepathic | feeling from a distance |
| temporize | gain time |
| testify | bear witness |
| distort | alter appearance |
| intractable | unmanageable |
| transitory | temporary |
| unequivocal | clear |
| suburban | dull and ordinary |
| vacuous | not intelligent |
| advent | arrival |
| verity | truthfulness |
| verbatim | word for word |
| revert | turn back |
| viaduct | pipeline |
| provident | having foresight |
| vivacity | liveliness |
| invoke | call in |
| volition | free will |
| revolt | turn against |
| voracious | hungry |
| conspire | make secret plans with |
| melodious | pleasant sounding |
| compunction | regret; guilt after something bad |
| penitent | regret; repentant |
| atoning | regret; amends reparation |
| contrite | regret; affected by guilt |
| emphatic | emphasis |
| distend | enlarge from inside |
| comandeer | take possession of by force |
| perfidy | betraying something |
| excise | tax on certain things |
| disputatious | like to dispute |
| ignominious | cause disgrace |
| perspicacious | keen to notice |
| serpentine | many bends & turns |
| convivial | festivity, social event |
| corrective | correct something |
| interminable | like no end |
| irrefuatble | cant be proved wrong |
| dovish | pacifist |
| immutable | can't be changed |
| indomitable | can't be defeated |
| exemplary | exemplifying |
| plaudit | enthusiastic approval |
| propagate | to make known to others |
| vilify | criticize harshly |
| consecration | dedication to sacred purpose |
| expurgated | change by removing the offensive |
| promulgate | to make a law known |
| recrimminate | counter-accusation |
| indefatigable | work long w/o tireness |
| proliferation | a fast increase in amount |
| requisition | formal request to do something |
| convocation | large formal meeting of people |
| remnant | leftover |
| potentate | powerful ruler (potent dictate) |
| perfunctory | done without enthusiasm; expected |
| convoluted | difficult to understand |
| soliloquy | monologue revealing thoughts |
| deferential | showing respect |
| ingratiate | gain favor by conforming |
| proponent | one who argues for something |
| complicity | helping in crime |
| illuminate | enligthen; lighten |
| inflammable | set fire quickly; short-tempered |
| apocryphal | well-known, but maybe untrue |
| supplant | to replace the old |
| idiosyncratic | unusual part of something |
| exonerate | to prove not guilty of |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| egregious | bad and easily noticed |
| remunerate | to pay for someone's labor |
| cognition | acquire knowledge |
| secede ~ | withdraw from an organization |
| volute | spiral form |
| volatile | likely to change suddenly |
| onerous | a burden to deal with |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events |
| surfeit | more than needed |
| remonstrate | argue |
| quiescent | not active |
| eluciate | make clear |
| noxious | harmful to living things |
| spiracle | breathing hole |
| Terminal | relating to an end |
| Coddle | Overprotecting |
| Indulgent | Overly generous |
| Prophetic | Accurately describing future |
| Banal | Lacks originality |
| Reticent | Not revealing thoughts |
| Clairvoyant | One who sees the future |
| Peruse | Read carefully |
| bereft | deprived of |
| impetuous | done quickly without care |
| irresolute | uncertain |
| Presumptuous | rude confidence |
| contemptuous | showing deep hatred |
| Reverential | showing respect |
| impudent | rude |
| articulate | clearly expressed |
| compound | make worse |
| copious | abundent |
| purport | meaning of something |
| truculence | easily annoyed |
| resilience | able to recover after being battered |
| concesde | admit to unwilling |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit to |
| dismiss(ive) | decide not to consider |
| exposé | report of facts of something |
| conviction | prove one guilty; strong opinion |
| sensationalism | use shock to cause excitement |
| edify | teach to improve character |
| chuff | boor |
| boor | rude, rough |
| introspective | examine one's own thoughts |
| inference | conclusion |
| assertive | confident |
| sardonic | disapproving of something; humorous |
| didactic | intend to teach something |
| frank | direct |
| contend | compete with assertion |
| ambivalent | contradicted attitude |
| vehement | intensely emotional |
| candid | expressing honestly |
| flippant | lacking seriousness |
| tawdry | morally low |
| caprice | change in behavior |
| vicarious | substitute |
| derision | use of ridicule to show contempt |
| philanthropy | giving money to improve other's lives |
| Tutelage~ | guidence; teaching mnemonic: Ron Swanson |
| Relinquish | willingly give up |
| Ordeal | painful, horrific experience |
| fallible | capable of making mistakes |
| Acquisitive (1.1) | able to retain info; concerned w/ acquiring wealth |
| retent | the act of keeping something |
| altruism | desire to help others, selfless |
| arrogate (1.2) | to claim without right |
| expropriate | to take someone's property |
| usurp | take and keep without the right to |
| insipid | dull, lacking interesting qualities |
| belabor (1.4) | work excessively; thrash soundly |
| pummel | to repeatedly hit hard |
| carping (1.5) | finding fault in petty way; nagging criticism |
| caviling | complain about unimportant things |
| coherent (1.6) | holding together; logical whole; comprehensible |
| muddle | cause confusion |
| congeal (1.7) | change from liq to solid; make rigid |
| coagulate | clotted or congealed |
| emulate (1.8) | to imitate with intent of = or surpassing |
| encomium (1.9) | formal expression of praise; lavish tribute |
| panegyric | eulogistic oration/writing |
| eschew (1.10) | avoid, shun |
| forgo | give up use of |
| germane (1.11) | relevant, appropriate |
| apropos [advb] | at an opportune time; seasonably |
| pertinent | relating to matter at hand |
| insatiable (1.12) | so great, can't be satisfied |
| voracious | having huge appetite; eager |
| intransigent (1.13) | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| reconcile | settle, resolve |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent from influence |
| invidious (1.14) | tending to cause bitterness & resentment |
| spiteful | desire to harm someone |
| pejorative | word/ phrase intended to disparage/belittle |
| largesse (1.15) | generosity in giving; bountiful contribution mnemonic: large-ass donation |
| munificent | very generous mnemonic: Monument for someone |
| niggardly | hating to spend money; miser |
| reconnaissance (1.16) | survey made for military purposes; preliminary inspection mnemonic: recon-missions |
| substantiate (1.17) | establish by evidence; give substantial form to |
| laconic | using few words in speech |
| prolix | using too many words |
| garrulous | very talkitive |
| hedge | noncommittal/ evasive statement |
| taciturn (1.18) | habitually silent, inclined to talk little |
| quiescent | not active |
| bohemian | artsy; conventional mne: hippies |
| boor | ill-mannered person mne: boo-ers |
| charlatan | fraud, pretender |
| chauvinist | supports cause religiously |
| clairvoyant | psychic; supernatural |
| despot | dictator; tyrant |
| hedonist | one who seeks pleasure |
| iconoclast | goes against tradition |
| malcontent | always unhappy |
| martinet | demands adherence to rules |
| obfuscater | makes things confusing |
| polemicist | engages in argument |
| pundit | makes commentary |
| purveyor | one who provides |
| philistine | guided by materialism |
| polymath | wide-ranged knowledge |
| ingenue | naive girl |
| pioneer | the first to develop |
| virtuoso | highly skilled |
| ornithologist | study birds |
| entomologist | study insect |
| interloper | unwanted person |
| aesthete | loves beauty in arts |
| miscreant | hates everything |
| debunker | criticize argument |
| botanist | study plants |
| paleontologist | study palethic era |
| seismologist | study earth [quakes] |
| ichthyologist | study fish |
| solocitor ~ | prevents selling |
| Sanctimonious | pretending to be morally better than others |
| Bifurcating | To divide into two parts |
| Avuncular | Like an uncle; benevolent |
| Funerary | Appropriate for funeral |
| Amalgamate | unite into one thing |
| Composite | Made of different parts |
| Concordance | with agreement |
| debacle | great disaster |
| Esoteric | Understood by a special group |
| arcane | understood by few |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| detract | divert away; reduce value of |
| Asserting | declaring, in definite way |
| infatuate | become foolish with extravagant admiration |
| disposition | a giving tendency to; cause to do something |
| suasion | act of influencing |
| discrepency | State of disagreeing |
| Miffed | annoyed |
| provoke | to cause to happen; to arouse an action |
| provocative | causing discussion, argument, emotion |
| Accost (2.1) | To approach and speak to first; to confront in aggressive way |
| animadversion (2.2) | comment indicating strong criticism/disapproval |
| rebuke | to speak in angry way |
| reproof | criticism or blame |
| avid (2.3) | desirous of something; intensely eager |
| brackish (2.4) | having salty taste, unpleasant to drink |
| briny | salty |
| saline | containing salt |
| ubiquitous | seeming to appear everywhere |
| celerity (2.5) | swiftness, rapidity of motion/action |
| alacrity | quick cheerful readiness to do something |
| dilatory | causing a delay; slow to do something |
| devious (2.6) | straying or wandering from a direct course; done in shifty/ underhanded way |
| aboveboard | in a straightforward manner |
| gambit (2.7) | chess - opening move involving risk/ sacrifice of minor piece to gain later advantage; opening move of this type |
| ploy | clever trick used to get someone to do something to gain advantage over another |
| stratagem | trick or plan for deceiving an enemy; achieving a goal |
| halcyon (2.8) | legendary bird identified with kingfisher; calm, peaceful; prosperus, affluent |
| placid | not easily upset; calm |
| histrionic (2.9) | pertaining to actors and their techniques; melodramatic, theatrical |
| stagy | seeming like from a performance; pretentious artificiality |
| indulgence | act of doing something enjoyable but wrong |
| incendiary (2.10) | designed to start fires; stir up strife/ rebellion; arsonist, one who causes strife |
| maelstrom (2.11) | whirlpool of great size & violence; situation resembling whirlpool in destruction |
| myopic (2.12) | nearsighted; lacking foresight/ realistic view of situation |
| overt (2.13) | open, expressed/revealed in a way that's easily recognized |
| patent | obvious or clear |
| clandestine | done in a private way; secretly |
| pejorative (2.14) | tending to make worse; expressing disparagement, belittling |
| derogate | to insult; suggest someone is not worthy of respect |
| Propriety (2.15) | state of being appropriate, proper; (pl) standards of what is peoper/socially acceptable |
| decorum | proper behavior showing good manners & respect |
| Sacrilege (2.16) | improper/ disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| defilement | to make unclean or impure; violate chastity of |
| summarily (2.17) | without delay or formality; concisely |
| peremptory | showing the insulting attitude of ppl who think they should be unconditionally obeyed |
| suppliant (2.18) | asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes so, petitioner, suiter |
| talisman (2.19) | object serving as charm, believed to confer magical powers; amulet, fetish |
| undulate (2.20) | move in waves or with wavelike motion; wavelike form |
| acumen | ability to think clearly; make good decisions |
| abrogate | end r cancel in formal/official way |
| abject~ | extremely bad or severe; cast down in spirit, servile |
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