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AES SAT Reading

Top SAT Words #3

TermDefinition
Malleable easy to mold, change shape
Mar stain or ruin
Mellifluous sweet-sounding
Mercenary soldier for hire
Meticulous precise, detail-oriented
Noxious foul, harmful
Obliterate destroy thoroughly
Obsequious servile, used to describe a sycophant
Obtrude stick out
Onus burden
Ostentatious showy, over the top
Paradox apparent contradiction
Paradigm model
Parsimonious stigny, tight-fisted
Pedantic knowledgeable but exceedingly boring
Peruse inspect closely
Pragmatic practical
Prolific productive
Propagate to spread
Protean capable of assuming many different forms
Prudent practical
Prurient titillating
Pulchritude beauty
Quandry dilemma, difficult situation
Quell put a stop to
Quiescent quiet
Quixotic romantic and impractical
Rancor fury
Recidivism slipping back into crime or bad behavior/habits
Renege go back on one's word
Scrutinize examine very closely
Sporadic occurring inconsistently
Solicitous caring, concerned
Superfluous excessive
Surreptitious secretive
Sybarite one who loves luxury
Sycophant suck-up
Tedious boring
Temporize procrastinate
Torpid inactive or sluggish
Unequivocal decisive
Unwieldy awkward, difficult to handle
Visceral instinctive, opposite of rational
Watershed tipping point
Zenith high point, apex
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