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SAT 5 Vocab Prep
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acrimonious | caustic syn: ant:cordial |
| ameliorate | to make better, to relieve, to improve syn: ant:to make worse, to aggervate |
| amendable | willing or open to taking advice or suggestions, tractable, mallable syn: docile, obedient ant:unwilling |
| amorphous | shapless, having no form syn: ant:structured |
| boyuant | capable of floating, cheerful syn: ant: likely to sink |
| Cajole | to persuade with flattery, to coax, to wheedle syn: ant: browbeat |
| calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune syn:cataclysm, catasophere ant:good fortunae |
| debase | to reduce in dignity or quality syn:abase, corrupt, debauch, demean, deprave, pervert, vivate ant: to glorify |
| efface | to erase, to wear away syn: ant: to make consipiuious |
| elucidate | to make clear, to explain syn: expliciate, expound ant: confuse |
| ephemeral | lasting a short period of time, fleeting syn: envanescent, fleeting,fugitive,tranisent, trainstory ant:lasting, timless, eternal |
| ferocity | savagery syn: ant:mildness |
| flourish | to thrive to glow well syn: ant: wither |
| haughty | arrognant, excessively vain,proud syn:disdainfu;, high-handed, insolent, lordly, superilicious ant: humble |
| impervious | incapable of being enetered or penetrated, not capable of being hurt syn: ant:penterable |
| inane | lacking significant meaning or point,silly insipid syn:banal flat jejune vapid ant:pertinent, intelligente,significant |
| indolence | laziness syn:slothfulness ant:industriouss |
| infalliable | incapable of error syn: ant: erroneous,fallacious |
| inscrutable | difficult to understand mysterious syn: ant:clear, readable, understanable |
| languod | slow, sluggish, listle, weak syn:lethargic, stupouris, torpid ant: animated |
| malice | the desire to harm or hurt someone syn: malevolence, malignatnity , spite spleen ant: concern |
| oblique | slanting, indirect,evasive, devious, misleading syn: ant: direct |
| opulence | wealth, affluence, abundance syn: meagerness, scarcity |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing syn:compunctal, contrite, remorseful, ant: unreptent |
| perfunctory | acting routinely with little care syn: ant: concerned, diligent |