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SAT Words
Words from 1000 Binder
Question | Answer |
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bombastic | (adj) excessively confident, pompous, pretentious |
abrogate | (v) to abolish usually by authority |
amenable | (adj) willing, compliant |
antithesis | (n) opposite |
archetype | (n) typical example of a person or thing |
arrogate | (v) to take without justification |
aspersion | (n) false misleading charge meant to hurt someone's reputation |
canny | (adj) prudent, shrewd, careful |
circuitous | (adj) roundabout |
collusion | (n) secret agreement, conspiracy |
complacency | (n) self-satisfied ignorance of danger |
complicit | (adj) being an accomplice in a wrongful act |
confluence | (n) coming, meeting, gathering |
congruity | (n) quality of being in agreement |
consign | (v) to give something over to another's care |
constrain | (v) to forcibly restrict |
construe | (v) to interpret |
contravene | (v) to contradict, oppose, violate |
coup | (n) 1. brilliant and unexpected act 2. overthrow of government and assumption of authority |
deplore | (v) to feel or express sorrow, disapproval |
effrontery | (n) insolence, nerve, impudence |
exculpate | (v) to free from guilt or blame, exonerate |
expiate | (v) atone, to make amends for |
expurgate | (v) to remove the offensive or incorrect parts from a book |
felicitous | (adj) 1. well-suited, apt 2. delightful, pleasing |
fatuous | (adj) silly, foolish |
forestall | (v) to thwart, prevent, delay |
fractious | (adj) irritable, troublesome |
grievous | (adj) injurious, hurtful, serious or grave in nature |
immutable | (adj) incapable of changing |
impassive | (adj) stoic, not susceptible to suffering |
impecunious | (adj) poor, impoverished |
incorrigible | (adj) incapable of being corrected, changed |
incontrovertible | (adj) indisputable |
inexorable | (adj) incapable of being persuaded or placated |
ingenuous | (adj)innocent, candid, not devious |
inimical | (adj) hostile, enemy-like |
iniquity | (n) sin, wickedness |
intransigent | (adj)refusing to compromise often on an extreme opinion |
irrevocable | (adj) unable to be taken back |
manifold | (adj) diverse, varied |
modulate | (v) to pass from one state of another |
multifarious | (adj) having great diversity or variety |
palliate | (v) to reduce the severity of |
pellucid | (adj) clear, easily intelligible |
vituperate | (v) to berate |
vicissitude | (n) events that occur by chance |
vapid | (adj) dull, lacking liveliness |
temerity | (n) audacity, recklessness |
temperance | (n) moderation in action or thought |
staid | (adj) sedate, serious, self-restrained |
stolid | (adj) unemotional, expressing little sensibility |
scurrilous | (adj) coarse, vulgar |
semaphore | (n) visual signal |
sobriety | (n) sedate, calm |
solipsistic | (adj) believing oneself is all that exists |
pertinacious | (adj) stubbornly persistent |
portent | (n) omen |
poignant | (adj) moving, deeply affecting |
prescribe | (v) to lay down as a law or rule |
proscribe | (v) to outlaw, condemn |
presumptuous | (adj) disrespectfully bold |
profligate | (adj) dissolute, extravagant |
propitious | (adj) favorable |
protean | (adj) capable of changing shape, displaying great variety |
quixotic | (adj) impractical, idealistic |
recalcitrant | (adj) defiant, unapologetic |
renunciation | (n) act of rejecting something |
requisition | (n) demand for goods usually made by an authority |
redoubtable | (adj) formidable, commanding respect |
sacrosanct | (adj) sacred, holy, something that should not be criticized |
sanguine | (adj) cheery, optimistic |
sanctimonious | (adj) giving a hypocritical appearance of piety |