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Sparknote 250
250 Top SAT vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acerbic | (adj) biting, bitter in tone or taste |
| acrimony | (n) bitterness, discord |
| acumen | (n) keen insight |
| anathema | (n) a cursed, detested person |
| alacrity | (n) eagerness speed |
| antipathy | (n) a strong dislike, repungnance |
| approbation | (n) praise |
| ascetic | (adj) practicing restraing as a means of self-discipline |
| aspersion | (n) a curse or expression of ill-will |
| assiduous | (adj) hard-working or diligent |
| blandish | (v) to coax by using flattery |
| boon | (n) a gift or blessing |
| brusque | (adj) short or abrupt or dismissive |
| buffet | (v) to strike with force (n) an arrangment of food set out on a table |
| burnish | (v) to polish or shine |
| buttress | (v) to support or hold up (n) something that offers support |
| cacophony | (n) tremendous noise or disharmonious sound |
| cajole | (v) to urge or coax |
| capricious | (adj) subject to whim or fickle |
| clemency | (n) mercy |
| cogent | (adj) intellectualy convincing |
| concomitant | (adj) accompanying in a subordinate fasion |
| conflagration | (n) great fire |
| contrite | adj) penitent or eager to be forgiven |
| conundrum | (n) puzzle or problem |
| credulity | (n) readiness to believe |
| calumny | (n) an attempt to spoil someone else's reputation by spreading lies |
| cupidity | (n) greed, strong desire |
| cursory | (adj) brief to the point of being superficial |
| decry | (v) to criticize openly |
| defile | (v) to make unclean or impure |
| deleterious | (adj) harmful |
| demure | (adj) quiet or modest or reserved |
| deprecate | (v) to belittle or depreciate |
| deride | (v) to laugh at mockingly or scorn |
| desecrate | (v) to violate the sacredness of a thing or place |
| desiccated | (adj) dried up or dehydrated |
| diaphanous | (adj) light or airy or transparant |
| diffident | (adj) shy or quiet or modest |
| discursive | (adj) rambling or lacking order |
| dissemble | (v) to conceal or fake |
| dither | (v) to be indecisive |
| ebullient | (adj) extremely lively or enthusiastic |
| effrontery | (n) impudence or nerve or insolence |
| effulgent | (adj) radiant or splendorous |
| enervate | (v) to weaken exhaust |
| ephemeral | (adj) short-lived or fleeting |
| eschew | (v) to shun or avoid |
| evanescent | (adj) fleeting or momentary |
| evince | (v) to show or reveal |
| exculpate | (v) to free from guilt or blame or exonerate |
| execrable | (adj) loathsome or detestable |
| exigent | (adj) urgent or critical |
| expiate | (v) to make amends for or atone |
| expunge | (v) to obliterate or eradicate |
| extant | (adj) existing or not destroyed or lost |
| extol | (v)to praise or revere |
| fallacious | (adj) incorrect or misleading |
| fastidious | (adj) meticulous or demanding or fatuous |
| foolish | (adj) silly |
| fecund | (adj) fruitful or fertile |
| feral | (adj) wild or savage |
| fetid | (adj) having a foul odor |
| florid | (adj) flowery or ornate |
| fractious | (adj) troublesome or irritable |
| garrulous | (adj) talkative or wordy |
| grandiloquence | lofty or pompous language |
| gregarious | (adj) drawn to the company of others or sociable |
| hackneyed | (adj) unoriginal or trite |
| hapless | (adj) unlucky |
| harangue | (n) a ranting speech (v) to give such a speech |
| hegemony | (n) domination over others |
| iconoclast | (n) one who attacks common beliefs or institutions |
| ignominious | (adj) humiliating or disgracing |
| impassive | (adj) stoic or not susceptible to suffering |
| imperious | (adj) commanding or domineering |
| impertinent | (adj) rude or insolent |
| impertinent | (adj) rude or insolent |
| impervious | (adj) impenetrable or incapable of being affected |
| impetuous | (adj) rash or hastily done |
| impinge | (v) to impact or make an impression (v) to encroach |
| implacable | (adj) incapable of being appeased or mitigated |
| impudent | (adj) Casually rude or insolent or impertinent |
| inchoate | (adj) unformed or formless or in a beginning stage |
| incontrovertible | (adj) indisputable |
| indefatigable | (adj) incapable of defeator failure or decay |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed through words |
| inexorable | (adj) incapable of being persuaded or placated |
| ingenuous | (adj) not devious or innocent and candid |
| inimical | (adj) hostile |
| iniquity | (n) wickedness or sin |
| insidious | (adj) appealing bt imperceptibly harmful or seductive |
| intransigent | (adj) refusing to compromise or often on an extreme opinion |
| inure | (v) to cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation |
| invective | (n) an angry verbal attack |
| inveterate | (adj) subbornly established by habit |
| jubilant | (adj) extremely joyful or happy |
| juxtaposition | (n)placing two things next to each other for implicit comp. |
| laconic | (adj) terse in speech or writing |
| languid | (adj) sluggish from fatique or weakness |
| largess | (n) the gnerous giving of lavish gifts |
| latent | (adj) hidden or but capable of being exposed |
| legerdemain | (n) deception or slight-of-hant |
| licentious | (adj) displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints |
| limpid | (n) clear or transparent |
| maelstrom | (n) a destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects |
| magnanimous | (adj) nobel or generous |
| malediction | (n) a curse |
| malevolent | (adj) wanting harm to befall others |
| manifold | (adj) diverse or varied |
| maudlin | (adj) weakly sentimental |
| mawkish | (adj)characterized by sick sentimentality |
| mendacious | (adj) having a lying or false character |
| mercurial | (adj) characterized by rapid change or temperamentality |
| modicum | (n) a small amount of something |
| morass | (n)swampy bog or something that traps and confuses |
| multifarious | (adj) having great diversity or variety |
| munificence | (n) generosity in giving |
| myriad | (adj) consisting of a very great number |
| nadir | (n) the lowest point of something |
| nascent | (adj) in the process of being born or coming into existence |
| nefarious | (adj) heinously villainous |
| neophyte | (n) someone who is young or inexperienced |
| obdurate | (n) unyeilding to persuasion or moral influences |
| obfuscate | (v) to render incomprehensible |
| oblique | (adj) diverging from a straight line or course |
| obsequious | (adj) excessively compliant or submissive |
| obstreperous | (adj) noisy or unruly |
| obtuse | (adj) lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect |
| odious | (adj) instilling hatred or intense displeasure |
| officious | (adj) offering services when they are neither wanted nor needed |
| opulent | (adj) characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation |
| ostensible | (adj) appearing as supalliatech or seemingly |
| palliate | (v) to reduce the severity of |
| pallid | (adj) lacking color |
| panacea | (n) a remedy for all ills or difficulties |
| paragon | (n) a model of excellence or perfection |
| pariah | (n) an outcast |
| parsimony | (n) frugality or stinginess |
| pathos | (n) an emotion of sympathy |
| paucity | (adj) small in quantity |
| pejorative | (adj) derogatory or uncomplimentary |
| pellucid | (adj) easily intelligible or clear |
| penurious | (adj) miserly or stingy |
| perfidious | disloyal, unfaithful |
| perfunctory | showing little interest or enthusiasm |
| pernicious | (adj) extremely destructive or harmful |
| perspicacity | (adj) shrewdness or perceptiveness |
| pertinacious | (adj)stubbornly persistent |
| petulance | (n) rudeness or irritability |
| pithy | (adj) concisely meaningful |
| platitude | an uninspired remark or cliche |
| plethora | (n) an abundance or excess |
| polemic | (n) an aggressive argument against a specific opinion |
| portent | (n) an omen |
| precocious | (adj) advanced or developing ahead of time |
| prescient | (adj) to have foreknowledge of events |
| primeval | original or ancient |
| probity | (n) virtue or integrity |
| proclivity | (n) a strong inclination toward something |
| promulgate | to proclaim or make known |
| propensity | (n) an inclination, preference |
| propitious | (adj) favorable |
| prosaic | (adj) plain or lacking liveliness |
| proscribe | (v) to condemn or outlaw |
| protean | (adj) able to change shapeor displaying great variety |
| prurient | (adj) eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interest in sex |
| puerile | (adj) juvenile or immature |
| pugnacious | (adj) quarrelsome or combative |
| pulchritude | (adj) physical beauty |
| punctilious | (adj) eager to follow rules or conventions |
| quagmire | (n) a difficult situation |
| querulous | (adj) whiny or complaining |
| quixotic | (adj) idealistic or impractical |
| rancor | (n) deep or bitter resentment |
| rebuke | (v) to scold or criticize |
| recalcitrant | (adj) defiant or unapologetic |
| rectitude | (n) uprightness or extreme morality |
| replete | (adj) full or abundant |
| reprobate | (adj) evil or unprincipled |
| reprove | (v) to scold or rebuke |
| repudiate | (v) to reject or refuse to accept |
| rescind | (v) to take back or repeal |
| restive | (adj) resistant or stubbornorimpatient |
| ribald | (adj) coarsely or crudely humorous |
| rife | (adj) abundant |
| ruse | (n) a trick |
| sacrosanct | (adj) holy or something that should not be criticized |
| sagacity | (n) shrewdness or souncess of perspective |
| salient | (adj) significantor conspicuous |
| sanctimonious | (adj) giving a hypocritical appearance of piety |
| sanguine | (adj) optimistic or cheery |
| scurrilous | (adj) vulgar or coarse |
| serendipity | (n) luck or finding good things without looking for them |
| servile | (adj) subservient |
| solicitous | (adj) concerned or attentive |
| solipsistic | (adj) believing that oneself is all that exists |
| somnolent | (adj) sleepy or drowsy |
| spurious | (adj) false but designed to seem plausible |
| staid | (adj) sedate or serious |
| stolid | (adj) expressing little sensibility or unemotional |
| stupefy | (v) to astonish or make insensible |
| surfeit | (n) an overabundant supply or indulgence |
| surmise | (v) to infer with little evidence |
| surreptitious | (adj) stealthy |
| sycophant | (n) one who flatters for self-gain |
| tacit | (adj) expressed without words |
| taciturn | (adj) not inclined to talk |
| tantamount | (adj) equivalent in value or significance |
| temerity | (n) audacity ro ecklessness |
| tenuous | (adj) having little substance or strength |
| timorous | (adj) timid or fearful |
| torpid | (adj) lethargic or dormant or lacking motion |
| tractable | (adj) easily controlled |
| transient | (adj) passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence, |
| transmute | (v) to change or alter in form |
| trenchant | (adj) effective or articulate or clear-cut |
| truculent | (adj) ready to fight or cruel |
| turgid | (adj) swollen or excessively embellished in a style or language |
| turpitude | (n) depravity or moral corruption |
| ubiquitous | (adj) existing everywhere or widespread |
| umbrage | (n) resentment or offsense |
| unctuous | (adj) smooth or greasy in texture or appearance |
| undulate | (v) to move in waves |
| upbraid | (v) to criticize or scold severly |
| usurp | (v) to seize by force or take possession of without right |
| vacillate | (v) to fluctuate or hesitate |
| vacuous | (adj) lack of content or ideas or stupid |
| vapid | (adj) lacking liveliness or dull |
| variegated | (adj) diversified or distinctly marked |
| venerate | (v) to regard with respect or to honor |
| veracity | (n) truthfulness, accuracy |
| verdant | (adj) green in tint or color |
| vex | (v) to confuse or annoy |
| vicarious | (adj) experiencing through another |
| vicissitude | (n) event that occurs by chance |
| vilify | (v) to lowever in importance or defame |
| viscous | (adj) not free flowing or syrupy |
| vitriolic | (adj) having caustic quality |
| vituperate | (v) to berate |
| wanton | (adj) undisciplined or lewd or lustful |
| winsome | (adj) charming, pleasing |
| wistful | (adj) full of yearning; musginly sad |
| wizened | (adj) dry or shruken or wrinkled |
| zenith | (n) the highest peak or culminating point |
| zephyr | (n) a gentle breeze |
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