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SAT Academy Vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accent | to emphasize; distinctive manner of pronunciation |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty and art |
| ambivalence | undicided; having mixed emotions about something |
| ambulatory | able to walk |
| anchor | to hold in place |
| anecdote | short story of an interesting or amusing event |
| articulate | able to speak well; precisely defined; intelligible |
| authoritarian | against individual freedom; favoring absolute obedience |
| bizarre | strikingly uncontional; odd; eccentric |
| complacent | self-satisifed; unconcerned |
| comprehensive | of large scope; all-encompassing; including all |
| condescend | to talk down to; to patronize |
| confide | to tell someone a secret |
| conspicuous | easily noticed; obvious |
| contaminate | to make impure or corrupt by contact or association |
| contemporary | living or existing at the same time |
| corroborate | to support with evidence; to confirm |
| corrugated | formed into wrinkles, folds, or grooves |
| credulous | believing; gullible |
| disentangle | to free; to clear up or resolve |
| disparity | inequality; difference; incongruity |
| diverse | varied; distinct; differing from one another; heterogeneous |
| eloquent | fluent and graceful in speech; articulate |
| elusive | hard to catch; evasive |
| endorse | to approve; to sanction |
| enduring | lasting; durable; chronic; unresolved; persistent |
| exemplify | to serve as an example of |
| exhaustive | through; complete; comprehensive |
| expedite | to hasten; to speed up; to remove impediments |
| extraneous | irrelevant; extra; unnecessary; unimportant |
| fertile | productive or fruitful |
| flagrant | conspicuously bad; outrageously noticable |
| fruitful | productive; successful |
| heed | to listen to; to give careful attention to |
| hilarity | a statement of high enjoyment; boisterous fun |
| immune | exempt; resistant to disease |
| inadvertent | accidental; unintentional |
| incessant | unceasing |
| incoherent | without logical connection; disjointed; rambling |
| innocuous | inoffensive; harmless |
| marred | damaged; injured; imperfect; impaired; spoiled |
| opaque | not allowing light to pass; not transparent |
| orthodox | standard; commonly ea |
| pivotal | important; crucial |
| preclude | to prevent; to make impossible; to bar |
| provocative | exciting; attracting attention; irritating; evocative; stimulating |
| renounce | to give up; refuse; resign |
| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
| scrutinize | to examine very closely |
| solemn | serious; grave; somber; gloomy; formal |
| summon | call together; send for |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed; uncertain |
| turbulence | state of unrest or disturbance; atmospheric agitation |
| virtue | the quality of moral excellence; righteousness; goodness |
| zany | given to outrageous behavior; bizarre; absurd |
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