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SAT Vocab v1.0
First Round!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| felicitous | pleasant, delightful, suitably expressed |
| euphonious | pleasing to the ear |
| distend | to expand, to swell |
| reciprocal | mutual, shared, inversely relate |
| vacuous | empty, vacant; stupid, inane |
| debacle | disaster; failure |
| rectitude | moral uprightness; righteousness |
| repudiate | to reject the validity/authority of |
| sanctimonious | feigning piety or righteousness |
| sophistry | plausible but misleading or fallacious argument |
| chicanery | trickery |
| reciprocate | to return in kind; to mutually share |
| effrontery | brazen boldness; presumptuousness |
| impugn | to attack as false or questionable |
| pejorative | belittling |
| prodigious | monumental; huge; exciting wonder |
| ingenuous | naïve; frank |
| ingenious | clever; resourceful; guileful |
| chimerical | fantastic or highly improbable |
| lucid | clearly understood |
| euphemism | vagary to substitute for harshness |
| orthodox | adhering to tradition, esp. religion |
| dichotomous | division between two contradictory or exclusive groups |
| didactic | instructive, educational |
| extrapolate | to infer from given info |
| circumspect | prudent, discreet |
| husbandry | application of science to agriculture; esp. breeding |
| perspicuous | clear-sighted; shrewd |
| pragmatic | practical |
| precocious | genius at young age |
| staid | unemotional (staid demeanor) |
| esoteric | intended for only a small group |
| gaffe | social error |
| potentate | powerful person; monarch |
| vituperative | bitingly caustic, abusive, condemning |
| contiguous | touching boundaries |
| incontrovertible | indisputable |
| indict | to formally charge with crime |
| litigious | prone to engaging in lawsuits |
| partisan | biased/devoted to a specific party, group, or cause |
| parity | equality, as in amount, status, or value |