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Vocab
Sat Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| irascible | Easily angered |
| Incense | Make angry |
| presumption | Assumption |
| miscreant | Lawbreaker |
| plodding | Slow moving |
| incumbent | Necessary |
| transitory | Short-lasting |
| piquant | Pungent in taste |
| perpetuate | Make something happen indefinitely |
| snub | Reject bluntly |
| consummate | Masterful |
| conundrum | Tough problem |
| analogous | Similar (analogy) |
| consecrate | Make something holy |
| foible | Small weakness |
| balk | Refuse to accept |
| impermeable | Sealed |
| hamstrung | Made powerless |
| fledgling | Inexperienced |
| endemic | Native |
| aphorism | Short saying |
| fete | Celebrate a person |
| grovel | Show fear |
| buttress | Support |
| coalesce | Fuse |
| compound | Make something more intense |
| begrudge | Envy |
| autonomously | Acting independently |
| carping | Fault finding |
| discriminate | Differentiate |
| remiss | Negligent |
| becoming | Suitable |
| immaterial | Not relevant |
| amok | Frenzied |
| raft | Large number |
| renege | Go back on |
| tout | Advertise strongly |
| tribulation | Suffering |
| checkered | Disreputable |
| dog | Pursue something |
| uncompromising | Inflexible |
| macabre | Gruesome |
| cardinal | Most important |
| vacuous | Lacking intelligence |
| unruly | Noisy uncontrollable |
| corroborate | To prove something is true |
| beatific | Blissfully happy |
| reprobate | Unprincipled person |
| inflammatory | Controversial |
| stymie | Hinder |
| seemly | According to customs/traditions |
| tender | Offer up formally |
| snide | Indirectly mocking |
| ferret | Search for |
| contrite | Remorseful (feeling sorry for what one did) |
| scintillating | Brilliant |
| redress | Correct unfairness |
| fleece | Deceive |
| diabolical | Wicked/insane |
| cavalier | Not caring (nonchalant) |
| raffish | Slightly disreputable |
| heyday | Pinnacle of something |
| pine | Yearn for |
| inclement | Lacking mercy (bad weather) |
| presumptuous | Overly forward, audacious |
| moment | Importance |
| obdurate | Stubborn |
| assail | Attack |
| preempt | Take the place of something |
| laborious | Tedious; requiring effort |
| chauvinist | Elitist; prejudice |
| retiring | Shy |
| maxim | Short saying |
| genteel | Refined |
| collusion | Secret cooperation |
| peruse | Read closely with concentration |
| morph | Change dramatically |
| dispatch | Speed, efficiency |
| flush | Abundant |
| jocular | Humorous |
| abysmal | Really horrible |
| demure | Modest, shy |
| aphoristic | Concise, true |
| virago | Screaming woman |
| pittance | Small amount |
| telling | Significant |
| ascendancy | Dominant position |
| underwrite | Support financially |
| cosmopolitan | Sophisticated and global |
| antedate | Precede |
| start | Move suddenly |
| contemptuous | Scornful |
| imponderable | Difficult to assess |
| thoroughgoing | Absolute |
| boon | Helpful thing |
| clemency | Mercy |
| industrious | Hard working |
| serendipity | Luck |
| facetious | Humorous |
| appreciable | Noticeable |
| badger | Pester |
| travail | Hard work |
| decimation | Completely destroy |
| rakish | Disreputable |
| cornucopia | Abundant supply |
| savvy | Well informed |
| glib | Insincere |
| embroiled | In an argument |
| moot | Irrelevant |
| altruism | Concern for others |
| connive | Plot |
| reservation | Doubt |
| irresolute | Uncertain how to act |
| flounder | Struggle |
| unseemly | Not appropriate |
| aboveboard | Honest |
| martial | Warlike |
| preemptive | Done first |
| errant | Straying from course |
| derogative | Insulting |
| chivalrous | Courteous |
| boorish | Ill-mannered |
| misogynist | Hater of women |
| genial | Agreeable |
| staid | Serious, dignified |
| implicate | Convey meaning |
| junta | Group seizing power |
| perquisite | Exclusive right |
| intermittent | Occurring on and off |
| wanton | Showing no limits |
| uncanny | Strange, unsettling |
| pithy | Concise yet expressive |
| impregnable | Indestructible |
| provisional | Not final |
| pastoral | Rural |
| ascribe | Attribute |
| finagle | Get through a tough situation by trickery |
| screed | Abusive rant |
| disenfranchise | Deprive of votes |
| slapdash | Hastily put together |
| behoove | Be one's duty |
| indict | Accuse formally |
| evenhanded | Fair |
| cerebral | Brainy |
| cadaverous | Corpse-like |
| melee | Wild fight |
| flounder | Struggle |
| check | Hold back from doing |
| abate | Lessen; reduce |
| assuage | Lessen the severity of |
| scrutinize | Look carefully |
| peruse | Look carefully |
| sporadic | Occurring irregularly |
| contrived | Too unrealistic |
| surmised | Support without data (assume) |
| punitive | Intended as punishment |
| indignant | Angry |
| disparate | Fundamentally different |
| wax and wane | Increase and decrease (in phases) |
| telltale | Revealing |
| replete | Fully stocked |
| urbane | Sophisticated |
| veneer | Disguising layer |
| whimsical | Driven by impulse |
| exhort | Encourage |
| stolid | Having little emotion |
| elicit | Bring out emotions |
| assuage | Make less severe |
| respite | Pause from work |
| cogent | Convincing |
| exonerate | Remove blame |
| egalitarian | Believing in equal rights |
| ineluctable | Inevitable |
| vicarious | Not lived directly |
| loquacious | Talkative |
| abstruse | Difficult to understand |
| vindicate | Clear someone of blame |
| buttress | Support |
| contrive | Create a situation |
| paucity | Lack of |
| innocuous | Harmless |
| detractor | Someone who disparages |
| engender | Give rise to |
| capricious | Sudden and unaccountable changes |
| alacrity | Ready and cheerful |
| vilify | Disparage someone |
| absolve | Clear someone's name |
| concomitant | Naturally accompanied by |
| virtuosity | Mastery in music |
| impervious | Not affected by |
| verdant | Green with grass |
| sequester | Isolate or hide away |
| elide | Omit something when speaking |
| obviate | Remove a difficulty |
| outstrip | Overtake, surpass |
| noxious | Harmful |
| defunct | No longer operative |
| insular | Ignorant or uninterested |
| insuperable | Non-solvable |
| pernicious | Deadly |
| prudence | Being cautious |
| banal | Very unoriginal |
| stalwart | Hardworking |
| ostentatious | Showy |
| inextricable | Impossible to separate |
| tenuous | Very weak or slight |
| fecund | Productive (fertile land) |
| verdant | Green with grass |
| rancid | Oily smell |
| emphatic | Saying something with force |
| perplexed | Confused |
| verisimilitude | Realism |
| ajar | Slightly open |
| salvage | Rescue |
| overhaul | Repair |
| uncouth | Ill-behaved (boorish) |
| dissonance | Lack of arrangement |
| astute | Shrewd |
| briny | Salty |
| succumb | To give in |
| egotist | Being elitist |
| cumbersome | Difficult |
| congenial | Amicable, friendly |
| amiable | Friendly |
| affable | Likable |
| voluminous | Large in size |
| ameliorate | To lessen the misery |
| augment | To increase in size |
| repudiate | Reject |
| recant | Assert but then take back a statement |
| surmise | To predict something without knowing all; assuming |
| nuanced | Subtly different |
| malicious | Evil |
| mellifluous | Pleasing and musical to hear |
| pernicious | Harmful in a gradual way |
| precarious | Dangerous |
| derisive | Hateful, scornful |
| prolific | Creative, fruitful |
| sporadic | Happening at irregular intervals |
| soporific | Tending to cause sleep |
| embellished | Decorated |
| contentious | Argumentative, inflammatory |
| dubious | Doubtful |
| spurious | Fake |
| leery | Distrustful |
| impede | Slow down |
| credence | Belief |
| perennial | Everlasting |
| glean | Collect |
| deride | Put down |
| incense | Make someone furious |
| inundate | Flood |
| tawdry | Cheap and showy |
| extenuate | Make less guilty |
| unconscionable | Unreasonable |
| bellicose | Warlike |
| abate | To lessen; to reduce the impact |
| abet | To support; to encourage |
| abhor | To hate something |
| abnegate | To deny or give up the right to something |
| abscond | To run away from something |
| advocate | To support or argue for a cause |
| allude | Hint at something |
| esoteric | Something only a few people will understand |
| excursion | Trip |
| excogitate | Think out properly |
| eulogy | Poem to celebrate achievements after death |
| elegy | Sad poem or writing to lament someone's death |
| obituary | Newspaper article announcing someone's death |
| paradigm | Pattern |
| veracity | Being true |
| vestige | A trace or mark left by something |
| vilify | To utter slanderous statements against |
| ubiquitous | Present everywhere |
| utilitarian | Someone who believes in the value of something based on usefulness |
| tirade | Angry speech |
| torpid | Lacking energy |
| travesty | An inferior imitation |
| sanctity | The quality of being holy |
| sanctimonious | Holier-than-thou attitude |
| spur | Something that gives motivation |
| spurn | Reject with contempt |
| solicit | Try to obtain something |
| surreptitious | Made or acquired by stealth and secrecy |
| sanguine | Cheerful; having the color of blood |
| relegate | To lower in position |
| requisite | Something that is necessary |
| arbitrary | Whimsical |
| pugnacious | Eager or ready to fight |
| endured | Suffered through |
| depute | Designate or delegate |
| affirm/avow | State publicly |
| venerate | Regard with respect |
| gamut | Range or scope |
| precarious | Dangerous |
| temporal | Relating to worldly or non-spiritual affairs |
| throng | A mass of people |
| satiate/slake | Satisfied to the full |
| renunciate | Formal rejection of something |
| rear | Nurture |
| precipitation | Acting suddenly and rashly |
| emphatically | Clearly |
| agility | Speed/constantly moving |
| obscure | Less known |
| ratified | Signed or given consent to make something official |
| impertinent | Irrelevant |
| reverence | Deep respect for something |
| sheer | unmitigated |
| viable | Something that can be done |
| snobbish | Proud of their social status; unlikeable |
| pertinent | Relevant |
| moot | Irrelevant |
| perturbed | Disturbed |
| decree | An official order that has the power of law |
| surly | Bad temper |
| resounding | Major |
| exactitude | Being precise and accurate |
| heretical | Believing or practicing religious heresy (holding an opinion at odds with the normal view) |
| conditioning | Training something to behave a certain way |
| imperative | Of vital importance |
| insipid | Dull; bland |
| raucous | Making harsh loud noise |
Created by:
Vishal Goyal
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