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Sat Vocabulary Words
Mrs.Hull's SAT Vocabulary Word List
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful |
| exuberant | really happy and enthusiastic; joyfully unrestrained |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach or instruct, serving to enlighten or inform |
| emphatic | marked by great conviction; forced and clear |
| earnest | marked by deep sincerity and serious intent |
| fervent | very enthusiastic; showing great intensity of spirt |
| jovial | describes people who display high-spirited merriment; full of joy |
| scholarly | describes a tone that is academic, learned, and studious |
| lighthearted | describes an attitude or mood that is carefree and cheerful |
| exhilarated | full with excitement and enthusiasm; thrilled |
| indignant | characterized by outrage caused be something perceived as unjust or wrong |
| sardonic | very sarcastic, mocking |
| flippand | characterized by a casual disrespectful attitude; especially in situations that call for a serious response |
| skeptical | characterized by an attitude of doubt and distrust |
| nonchalant | marked by an air of casual concern |
| disdain | a feeling of intense dislike and great scorn; contempt |
| venement | characterized by strong emotions or convictions; very emphatic |
| caustic | characterized by a critical tone and biting words that cause hurt feelings |
| wary | marked by caution; a watchful concern that is alert to danger or deception |
| pompous | characterized by and excessive and elevated sense of self-importance; arrogant |
| ambivalent | characterized by mixed feelings about a person, object, or cause of action |
| indifferent | characterized by a lack of interest or concern; apathetic |
| wistful | sadly thoughtful; pensively reflective |
| whimsical | spontaneously fanciful or playful; given to chance or whims |
| evenhanded | marked by impartiality; fair to all sides |
| prudent | characterized by a watchful and careful consideration of all potential consequences; cautions and sensible |
| reflective | taking time to think carefully about things; thoughtful |
| conversational | an informational exchange or presentation of feelings |
| objective | looking at issues in a detached and impartial manner |
| measured | the quality of being calm and retrained; unhurried and deliberate |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to seeking sensual pleasure |
| reprobate | a person who is depraved, unpricipipled and wicked |
| interloper | a person who intrudes where he or she is not welcome; an uninvited guest |
| acolyte | a person who is a devoted fan or follower of someone famous |
| iconoclast | a person who attackes cherished ideas, traditions, and institvtions |
| mentor | a person who acts as a wise and trusted advisor |
| benefactor | a person who helps people or instituations |
| innovator | a person who creates new inventions ideas, or ways of doing things |
| proponet | a person who fights for a cause, idea, or movement; a champion |
| sage | a person who is renowed for his or her wisdom and saqacity |
| philanthropist | a person who gives money or gifts to charaties is a wealthy person with a generous nature and concern for human welfare |
| misanthropist | a person who distrusts and is contemplous of other people; misanthropy is a general hatred of human kind |
| connoisseur | a person who, though study and interest, has a fine appreciation for something |
| neophyte | a person who is new at an occupation or task; a beginner; a novice |
| dilettante | an amateur who " dilly dallies " or engages in activity without series intentions; a dabbler |
| aesthetic | characterized by a sensitivity to beauty in art and taste |
| conventional | customary; conforming to established practices |
| mitigate | to make less severe to harsh; to moderate; to lesson; to relieve |
| pragmatic | practical; realistic; down to Earth |
| altruistic | characterized by unselfish concern for the welfare of others; not egotistical |
| diffident | timid; lacking self-confidence; shy and reserved, especially in social gatherings; self-effacing |
| frank | open and honest; candid |
| revere | to show great respect for a person, idea, or symbol; to venerate |
| subtle | gradual, therefore not noticed |
| reticent | reluctant to publicly discuss one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs; restrained and reserved in style, not outspoken |
| antithetical | characterized by an extreme contrast or polar opposites |
| prescient | perceiving the significance of events before they occur; showing foresight |
| nostalgia | a bittersweet longing for something in the past |
| beguile | to trick or captivate someone with deception or irresistible charm |
| ominous | menacing and threatening; foreshadowing ill-future |
| succinct | brief; to the point; concise |
| discerning | demonstrating keen insight and good judgement; able to distinguish good from bad |
| belie | to give false impression; to misrepresent |
| anomaly | a deviation from a common pattern; a departure from the norm; something that a a typical and thus aberrant |
| peremptory | an order or command that does not allow discussion or refusal; and arbitrary order |
| anecdote | a short story told to illustrate a point |
| vignette | a brief literary sketch |
| simile | a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by "like or as" |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which two unrelated objects are compared without using "like or as" |
| personification | a figure of speech in which inanimate objects ate indeed with human characteristics |
| paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words |
| verbal irony | saying one thing and implying something else, usually the opposite of the expressed meaning |
| situational irony | an inconsistency between what is expected or intended and what really happened |
| parallel structure | the repetition of words, phrases ,or sentences that are similar in meaning and structure |
| understatement | a figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important than it is |
| hyperbole | the use of exaggerate language of emphasis or heightened effect |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, or thing, historical or literary, that adds to the reader's understanding of the subject |
| parenthetical expression | an expression inserted into the flow of thought and set off by parentheses |
| satire | the use of wit, irony, and sarcasm to make fun of human follies |
| analogy | a comparison of an unfamiliar idea or object to a familiar one |
| analogous | characterized by parallel similarity that permits the drawing of an analogy |
| lampoon | to ridicule with satire |
| eulogize | to praise with elegant words |
| euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept |
| qualify | to limit, modify, or restrict |
| concede | to acknowledge or admit; to make concessions |
| rebut | to attempt to prove that an accusation or theory is false |
| refute | to disprove an accusation or theory |
| undermine | to weaken, subvert, hinder |
| underscore | to emphasize, to draw special attention to a fact, idea, or situation |
| coherent | marked by an orderly, logical, and clear relationship |
| bias | a mental tendency or inclination; especially an unfair preference for a person or group; not objective and therefore partisan |
| criterion | the standard of judging something |
| conjecture | a hypothesis formed from incomplete evidence; a deduction |
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