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FLEX Vocabulary
SAT Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fruition | fulfillment; realization |
| insidious | treacherous |
| mulct | to obtain money by extortion |
| proclivity | tendency |
| promontory | piece of land that juts out |
| rapport | a close relationship; harmony |
| sedulous | hard-working; diligent |
| corrugated | wrinkled; ridged; furrowed |
| effrontery | shameful boldness |
| hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence |
| libel | a false statement in written form |
| passe | old fashioned; out-of-date |
| promulgate | to announce; to advocate |
| slough | run-down; shabby |
| sordid | dirty; filthy |
| turbid | muddy; unclear |
| abet | to aid; to encourage |
| allay | to relieve or to calm |
| effulgent | shining forth brilliantly; radiant |
| ersatz | artificial |
| libertine | one who leads an immoral life |
| occlude | to close; to shut; to block out |
| proscribe | to denounce; exile |
| rarefy | to make less dense; to refine |
| tactile | pertaining to sense of touch |
| torpid | inactive; sluggish |
| turbulence | wild disorder; violent motion |
| vignette | hearty enjoyment |
| abeyance | a temporary postponement |
| apprise | to inform |
| burgeon | to flourish; to grow rapidly |
| encumbrance | hindrance; obstruction |
| fete | to honor; to entertain |
| fugacious | pertaining to the passing of time |
| maxim | a proverb or saying |
| plaintive | sorrowful; sad |
| solecism | ungrammatical usage; an error or inconsistency |
| abate | to lessen; to decrease |
| apocryphal | doubtful; not authentic |
| approbation | approval |
| egalitarian | pertaining to belief in the equality of all men |
| fulminate | to explode; to denounce |
| tractable | easy to manage |
| abject | miserable; wretched |
| conjecture | to guess |
| countenance | to face; to permit, tolerate, or approve |
| fulsome | disgusting; sickening; repulsive |
| humdrum | monotonous; routine |
| indelible | incapable of being erased |
| interim | meantime; period of time between |
| lieu | in place of; instead of |
| mercurial | changeable; erratic |
| turpitude | baseness; shameful behavior |
| append | to attach; to add |
| appurtenance | something added to another more important thing |
| counterpart | duplicate; copy |
| escarpment | steep cliff |
| fetter | to confine; to put into chains |
| fidelity | faithfulness |
| furor | rage; frenzy; fury |
| imdemnify | to insure; to repay |
| interlocutor | one who takes part in a conversation |
| meretricious | gaudy; showy |
| offal | garbage; waste parts |
| profligate | shamelessly immoral; extremely wasteful |
| proselyte | a convert |
| ratiocinate | to reason |
| remiss | negligent |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| sphinx | person who is difficult to understand |
| tarn | a small lake or pool |
| virile | masculine; manly |
| abjure | to give up |
| apprehensive | fearful; anxious |
| apropos | relevant; appropriate; fitting |
| bacchanalian | wild with drunkenness |
| castigate | to punish |
| diaphanous | transparent |
| disputatious | fond of arguing |
| escrow | money deposited with a third person pending fulfillment of a condition |
| interminable | endless |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| patrimony | inherited; heritage |
| plenary | full; complete |
| prospectus | a report describing a forthcoming project |
| splenetic | bad-tempered; irritable |
| tutelage | instruction |
| visage | the face; appearance |
| compunction | uneasiness; remorse |
| esoteric | for a select few; not generally known |
| fiat | an official order |
| intrepid | fearless; courageous |
| retrench | cut down or reduce to expenses |
| sentient | conscious; capable of feeling |
| spry | full of life; active |
| covenant | an agreement; a contract |
| fickle | changeable in affections; unfaithful |
| alluvial | pertaining to a deposit of sand formed by flowing water |
| dissertation | a written essay |
| jaunt | short trip; confident |
| transitory | brief |
| absolve | to free from responsibility |
| capricious | erratic; impulsive |
| ensue | to follow; to result from |
| peculate | to steal |
| rebuff | to refuse |
| ulcerious | infected |
| filch | to steal |
| recalcitrant | disobedient; hard to manage |
| contiguous | nearby; neighboring |
| penchant | a strong liking for; an inclination |
| revelation | something made known; a disclosure |
| dissolute | immoral; unrestrained |
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