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SAT Vocab One
50 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abjure | formally reject or disavow |
| abstruse | hard to understand; esoteric |
| adroit | cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious; physically nimble |
| aesthetic | pertaining to a sense of the beautiful |
| alacrity | cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
| ambivalent | uncertainty or fluctuation; the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings towards one person or thing |
| anachronism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time |
| analogous | similar or alike in such a way to allow one to offer comparison, analogy |
| ardent | intense feeling; passionate; fervent |
| assiduous | constant; unremitting at a task; diligent |
| avarice | insatiable greed for riches |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound |
| callow | immature or inexperienced |
| capricious | subject to whim; erratic: impulsive |
| copious | large in quantity or number; abundant |
| demagogue | a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people |
| didactic | intended for instruction |
| dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate |
| dogmatic | asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated |
| eclectic | selecting or choosing from various sources |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
| esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have a special knowledge or interest |
| extraneous | not pertinent; irrelevant; foreign |
| fallacious | logically unsound; false; misleading; delusive |
| florid | reddish; ruddy; rosy; flowery |
| indigenous | originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native |
| ingenuous | sincere; genuine; free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid |
| innocuous | not harmful or injurious; innocent |
| insipid | with distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid |
| linguistic | belonging to language |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner |
| magnanimity | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; giving freely |
| obstreperous | resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly, noisy, clamorous or boisterous |
| officious | objectionably aggressive in offering one's unasked for and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome |
| paucity | smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness |
| punctilious | strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct; precise |
| quixotic | caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality (resembling or befitting Don Quixote) |
| rectitude | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue |
| reproach | to find fault with (a person, group, etc); blame; censure; to upbraid |
| reverent | deeply respectful |
| sagacity | the quality of being discerning, sound in judgement, and farsighted; wisdom |
| serendipity | good fortune; luck |
| sporadic | appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional |
| superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive; unnecessary |
| taciturn | inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation |
| tedious | marked by tedium; long and tiresome; possibly, wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom |
| truculent | fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
| vacillate | be indecisive or irresolute; to sway unsteadily; waver |
| zealot | an excessively zealous person; fanatic |
| zealous | marked by active interest and enthusiasm; ardently active; devoted |
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