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SAT Words Matt
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abdicate | to formally give up power |
| aberration | a deviation from the way things normally happen or are done |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| adage | a wise old saying |
| adament | extremely stubborn |
| aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
| affable | easy-going; friendly |
| alleviate | to ease a pain or burden |
| ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
| ambivalent | "simultaneously feeling opposing feeling |
| amenable | responsive; aggreeable |
| amiable | good natured and likable |
| ample | describing a large amount of something |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| apt | suitable; appropriate |
| arbiter | a judge who decides a disputed issue |
| archaic | "characteristic of an earlier |
| arduous | difficult; painstaking |
| arid | "describing a dry |
| assiduous | hard-working |
| asylum | a place of retreat or security |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances |
| austere | somber; stern |
| benevolent | kind; generous |
| benign | kind and gentle; harmless |
| biased | prejudiced |
| brittle | easily broken when subjected to pressure |
| brusque | describing a rudely abrupt manner |
| burgeoning | expanding or growing rapidly |
| camaraderie | good will between friends |
| candor | sincerity; openness |
| cantankerous | grumpy; disagreeable |
| capacious | roomy; spacious |
| capricious | impulsive and unpredictable |
| catalog (v) | to make an itemized list of |
| caustic (adk; n) | "bitingly sarcastic |
| clandestine | "secretive |
| clarity | clearness in thought or expression |
| cogent | convincing; reasonable |
| cohesive | condition of sticking together |
| compelling | forceful; urgently demanding attention |
| conflagaration | a widespread fire |
| conscientious | careful and principled |
| contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
| convoluted | intricate; complex |
| copious | plentiful; having a large quantity |
| cordial | warm and sincere; friendly |
| coup | a brilliantly executed plan; a sudden overthrow of government |
| curtailed | cut short; abbreviated |
| debunk | to expose the falseness of |
| decorous | proper; marked by good taste |
| despotic | characterized by exercising absolute power tyranically |
| dictatorial | domineering; oppresively overbearing |
| didactic | intended to instruct |
| dilatory | describing one who habitually delays or is tardy |
| dilettante | a dabbler in or one who superficially understands an art of a field of knowledge |
| diligent | marked by painstaking effort; hard-working |
| disingenuous | not straightforward; crafty |
| disparage | to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle |
| disparate | fundamentally distinct or different |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| dogmatic | characterized by a stubborn adherence to insufficiently proved beliefs |
| dubious | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity |
| disdain | to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on |
| ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
| eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
| effusive | describing unrestrained emotional expression; gushy |
| egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
| embellish | to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate |
| emollient | softening and soothing |
| emphatic | expressed with emphasis |
| emulate | "to try to equal or excel |
| enervate | to weaken the strength or vitality of |
| enmity | mutual hatred or ill-will |
| ephemeral | lasting for a markedly brief time |
| epiphany | a sudden burst of understanding or discovery |
| equanimity | the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure |
| exculpate | to free from guilt or blame |
| exemplary | commendable |
| fabricated | made; concocted in order to decieve |
| facetious | playfully humorous |
| facile | done or achieved with little effort; easy |
| farce | an absurdly ridiculous situation |
| fastidious | possessing careful attention to detail |
| feasible | capable of being accomplished; possible |
| feral | "savage |
| florid | describing flowery or elaborate speech |
| fluid | easy flowing |
| fractious | quarrelsome; unruly |
| frank | open and sincere in expression; straightforward |
| frenetic | wildly excited or active |
| furtive | characterized by stealth; sneaky |
| futile | having no useful purpose |
| garrulous | "given to excessive |
| genre | describing a category or artistic endeavor |
| glower | to look or stare angrily or sullenly |
| gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
| gregarious | enjoying the company of others; sociable |
| hackneyed | overfamiliar through overuse; trite |
| harbinger | one that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
| haughty | condescendingly proud |
| heinous | hatefully evil; abominable |
| heresy | "an opinion that disagrees with establishes |
| idyllic | simple and carefree |
| immutable | not able to be changed |
| impede | to slow the progress of |
| impenetrable | incapable of being understood |
| imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
| impetuous | characterized by sudden energy or emotion |
| impinge | to encroach in a way that violates the rights of another |
| implacable | impossible to appease |
| impromptu | not planned in advance; spur of the moment |
| inconsequential | unimportant |
| controvertible | indisputable; not open to question |
| incorrigible | unable to be reformed |
| incumbent (adj.) | imposed as a duty; obligatory |
| indigenous | originating and living in a particular area |
| indolent | lazy |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| innate | possesed at birth; inborn |
| innocuous | having no bad effect; harmless |
| insightful | perceptive |
| insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging |
| insolent | insulting in manner or speech |
| intrepid | courageous; fearless |
| intuitibe | knowing or perceiving quickly and readily |
| inverterate | long-established; deep-rooted; habitual |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| jurisprudence | the philosophy or science of law |
| laconic | using few words |
| lament | to express grief for; mourn |
| lampoon (n; v) | a broad satirical piece; or to broadly satire |
| laudatory | expressing great praise |
| liquid | flowing readily |
| listless | lacking energy; lazy |
| lucid | easily understood |
| malevolent | having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; hateful |
| malfeasance | "misconfuct or wrongdoing |
| malice | extreme ill will or spite |
| maverick | one who is independent and resists adherance to a group |
| medley | "an assortment or a mixture |
| marecurial | quick and changeable in mood |
| meticulous | extremely careful and precice |
| milk (v) | to draw or extract profit or advantage from |
| mitigate | to make less severe or painful |
| mollify | to calm or soothe |
| mundane | commonplace; ordinary |
| mural | a big painting applied directly to a wall |
| naive | lacking sophistication |
| nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
| nocturnal | of or occuring in the night |
| notorious | known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous |
| novel (adj) | "strikingly new |
| novice | a beginner |
| obdurate | stubborn; inflexible |
| obscure (adj; v) | relatively unknown; or to conceal or make indistinct |
| obsolete | no longer in use; old-fashioned |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action |
| ominous | menacing; threatening |
| omnipotent | all-powerful |
| opulent | exhibiting a display of great wealth |
| ornate | elaborately ornamented |
| ostentatious | describing a showy or pretentious display |
| pander | to cater to the lower tastes and desires of others to explot their weaknesses |
| paramount | of chief concern or importance |
| parochial | narrow in scope |
| parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
| pasimonious | excessibely cheap |
| patronizing | treating in a condescending manner |
| paucity | fewness; an extreme lack of |
| pejorative | describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone |
| penitent | expressing remorse for one's misdeeeds |
| permeated | sperad or flowing throughout |
| pervasive | having the quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time |
| plagiarism | the act of passing off as one's own ideas or writings of another |
| plausible | seemingly valid or acceptable; credible |
| poignant | profoundly moving; touching |
| ponderous | extremely dull |
| portend | to serve as an omen or a warning of |
| pragmatic | practical |
| pristing | not spoiled; pure |
| prodigious | enormous |
| prohetic | foretelling or predicting future events |
| propriety | appropriateness of behavior |
| prosaic | unimaginative; dull |
| prudent | exercising good judgment or common sense |
| pugnacious | combative; belligerent |
| punctilious | strictly arrentive to minute details; picky |
| purist | one who is particularly concerned with maintaining traditional practices |
| quandary | a state of uncertainty or perlexity |
| rancorous | hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will |
| rapport | a relationship of mutual trust or affinity |
| recalritrant | defiant of authority; stubborn; not easily managed |
| reclamation | a restoration or rehabilitation to productivity or usefulness |
| remote | located far away |
| replete | abundantly supplied; filled |
| repugnant | causing disgust or hatred |
| reticent | reluctant to speak |
| ruse | a crafty trick |
| salutary | promoting good health |
| sanction (n) | official permission or approval; a measure put in place to punish a nation or person |
| sanction (v) | to give official authorization or approval to |
| sanguine | cheerfully confident; optimistic |
| sedentary | not migratory; settled |
| serene | calm |
| slander | false charges and malicious oral statements or reports about someone |
| solvent | able to pay ones debts |
| sonorous | having or producing sound |
| soporific | causing sleep or sleepiness |
| specious | having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false |
| spurious | not genuine; false |
| squalor | a filthy condition or quality |
| staid | characterized by a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious |
| stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive |
| stratagek | a clever trick used to decieve or outwit |
| stupor | a state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
| stmied | thwarted; stumped; blocked |
| substantiated | supported with proof or evidence; verified |
| superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
| suppressed | subdued; kept from being circulated |
| surreptitious | done by secretive means |
| tacit | implied but not actually expressed |
| temperate | moderate; mild |
| tenacity | persistent adherence to a belief or a point of view |
| tenet | a principle held as being true by a person or an organization |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; shakey; flimsy |
| terse | brief and to the point; concise |
| thwart | to prevent the occurrence of |
| timorous | shy; timid |
| torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness |
| toxic | poisonous |
| transitory | short-lived or temporary |
| trenchant | keen; incisive |
| trepidation | uncertainty; apprehension |
| trite | unoriginal; overused; stale |
| truncated | shortened; cut off |
| unfettered | set free from restrictions or bonds |
| unpalatable | "not pleasing to the taste |
| urbane | notably polite and elegant in manner; suave |
| usurp | to take power by force |
| vacuous | devoid of matter; empty |
| vilify | to make vicious statements about |
| vindicated | freed from blame |
| wane | to decrease gradually in intensity; decline |
| wary | on guard; watchful |
| whimsical | subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable |
| wily | cunning |
| wry | "dryly humorous |
| zealous | passionate; extremely interested in pursuing something |
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