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Top SAT Words by Category #1

TermDefinition
Prosaic lacking in substance, pedestrian, banal, cliche, trite, hackneyed, vapid, vacuous, quotidian, mundane, insipid, derivative
Obstinate stubborn, obdurate, intransigent, intractable, tenacious
Ephemeral brief, fleeting, transitory, cursory,
Esoteric beyond human understanding, recondite, abstruse, arcane
Ameliorate to make better/relieve pain, alleviate, assuage, palliate, mitigate
Eclectic varied, diverse, heterogenous, motley, multifarious
Loquacious talkative/outgoing, garrulous, gregarious
Laconic using few words, terse, perfunctory, spare
Deprecate to insult, impugn, disparage, malign, censure (also means punish), decry, vilify, vituperate
Laud to praise/hold in high regard, tout, extol, revere
Munificence generosity, magnanimity (adj. = magnanimous), largess
Avarice greed, cupidity
Proclivity inclination toward, penchant, predilection, affinity
Thwart prevent, forestall, preclude
Florid highly decorated, ornate, Baroque
Penurious poor, indigent, impecunious
Reticent shy, aloof, diffident
Jocund cheerful, jovial, mirthful
Assiduous hardworking, diligent, sedulous
Ebulliant overjoyed, exultant, elated
Indolent lazy, slothful
Supercilious arrogant, condescending
Convoluted complicated, Byzantine
Lucid clear, perspicuous
Vitriolic harsh, burning, caustic
Maudlin sickly sweet, cloying, treacly, mawkish
Conundrum mystery, enigma
Capricious unpredictable, mercurial
Provincial narrow-minded, insular, parochial
Cosmopolitan broad-minded
Dearth small-amount, paucity
Myriad large-amount, copious, plethora
Spurious fake, specious
Wary of suspicious of, chary of
Chicanery fraud, trickery, Charlatanism(person who is a fraud = charlatan)
Guileless naive, ingenuous
Phlegmatic calm, placid (verb: to placate)
Irascible easily angered, cantankerous
Bellicose violent, pugnacious
Ancillary supplementary, not of central importance, peripheral
Picayune irrelevant, unimportant, trivial
Exculpate free from blame, find innocent, vindicate
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