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SAT words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberrant | Markedly different from an accepted norm |
| aberration | Deviation from a right,customary, or prescribeal course. (the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.) |
| Abondon | noun. total lack of inhibition (limit) |
| abate | verb. To decrease, to reduce |
| abjure | verb. to renounce under oath to abandon forever, to abstain from |
| baleful | malignant (disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.) |
| banal | commonplace |
| bask | to make warm by genial heat |
| beatify | to make supremely happy |
| bedaub | to smear over, as with smething oily or sticky. |
| cabal | A number of persons seretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose. |
| cacophony | a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or compbination of sounds or tones. |
| cajole | to impose on or dupe by flattering speech |
| callow | without experience of the world |
| Calumny | Salnder |
| dearth | Scarcity, as of something customary, essential, or desirable. |
| Defer | To delay or put off to some other time |
| deign | to deem worthy of notice or account |
| deleterious | Hurtful, morally or physically |
| delineate | To represent by sketch or diagram |
| earthenware | anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun |
| ebullient | showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling |
| edacious | given to eating |
| edible | Suitable to be eaten |
| educe | to draw out |
| facetious | amusing |
| facile | not difficult to do. |
| factious | turbulent |
| fallacious | illlogical |
| fatuous | idiotic |
| gainsay | to contradict; to deny |
| gamut | the whole range or sequence |
| garrulous | given to constant trival talking |
| germane | relevant |
| gesticulate | to make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech |
| halcyon | calm |
| harangue | a tirade |
| harbinger | one who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing |
| head | adv. precipitately, as in diving. |
| heinous | odiously sinful |
| iconoclast | an image-breaker |
| idiosyncrasy | a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual |
| ignoble | low in character or purpose |
| ignominious | shameful |
| illicit | unlawful |
| jocular | inclined to joke |
| jovial | merry |
| judicious | prudent |
| junta | a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon theaffairs of government |
| lachrymose | given to shedding tears |
| malaise | a condition of uneasiness or ill-being |
| malcontent | one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs |
| malevolence | ill will |
| malign | to speak evil of, especially to do so falesly and severely |
| malleable | pliant (easily influenced) (flexible) |
| nadir | the lowest point |
| nefarious | wicked in the extreme |
| megligent | apt to omit what ought to be done |
| neophyte | having the character of a beginner |
| noisome | very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell |
| obdurate | impassive t feelings of humanity or pity |
| obfuscate | to darken; to obscure |
| oblique | Slanting; said of lines |
| bosequious | showing a servil readiness to fall in with the wishes of will of another |
| obstreperous | boisterous (rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy) |
| palatial | magnificent |
| palliate | to cause to appear less guilty |
| palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch |
| panacea | a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases |
| qualm | a fit of nausea |
| quandary | a puzzling predicament |
| quibble | an utterly trivial distinction or objection |
| quiescence | being quite, still, or at rest; inactive |
| quiescent | being in a state of repose or inaction |
| raconteur | a person skilled in telling stories |
| ramify | to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions |
| rapacious | sieze by force, avaricious |
| raucous | harsh |
| reactionary | pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction. |
| sagacious | able to discern and distinguish with wise perception |
| salacious | having strong sexual desires |
| salient | standing out prominently |
| salubrious | healthful; promoting health |
| salutary | beneficial |
| taciturn | disinclined to conversation |
| taut | stretched tight |
| temerity | foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness |
| terse | pithy |
| timorous | lacking courage |
| ubiquitous | being present everywhere |
| ulterior | not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of |
| umbrage | a sense of injury |
| unctuous | oily |
| undermine | to subvert in an underhand way |
| vagary | a suddan desire or action |
| vainglory | excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity |
| valourous | courageous |
| vapid | having lost sparkling quailty and flavor |
| variegated | having marks or patches of different colors; also, varied |
| wean | to transfer (the young) from dependence on mather's milk to another form of nourishment |
| whimsical | capricious (subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim) |
| winsome | attractive |
| zenitgeist | the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch. |
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