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SAT VOCAB
sat vocab prep words from reading crit workbook
| Dilettante | a person who takes up an art or activity merely for amusement |
| Braggart | a person who does a lot of bragging |
| Pilferer | someone who steals, especially in small quantities |
| Prevaricator | a liar |
| Raconteur | a person skilled in telling stories |
| Finagle | to trick, swindle, or cheat |
| Winnow | to free; to separate or distinguish |
| Overhaul | to make necessary repairs on |
| Collude | to act together in a secret understanding |
| Swindle | to cheat |
| Conspire | to agree secretly or in an evil way |
| Reimburse | to repay |
| Venture | a hazard; to risk |
| Incite | to stir, to encourage or to urge on |
| Objectify | to materialize |
| Innocuously | harmless, not stimulating |
| Heedlessly | careless, unmindful |
| Esteemed | to regard highly or favorably |
| Amiable | having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities |
| Veneration | the act of treating with respect |
| Irreverence | lack of respect |
| Resignation | a formal statement in which one gives up office or position; an accepting, unresisting attitude |
| Deprave | to corrupt, to make morally bad or evil |
| Condemn | to pronounce to be guilty, to sentence to punishment |
| Chicanery | the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial or legal purpose |
| Acquiescence | to comply silently without protest |
| Derision | ridicule, mockery |
| Aggregate | to bring together; a collection of particulars into a whole |
| Malignant | very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect |
| Jubilant | showing great joy |