SAT Class Vocab 4
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- Inveigh
- To attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
- Saturnine
- Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- Galvanize
- To imbue with life or animation
- Gestation
- Pregnancy
- Illusory
- Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance
- Imperil
- To endanger
- Impiety
- Irreverence toward God
- Monetary
- Financial
- Nascent
- Emerging, coming into existence
- Salient
- Conspicuous, highly relevant, prominent
- Tawdry
- Cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
- Pellucid
- Transparent, easy to understand
- Discomfit
- to defeat, put down
- Approbation
- Approval
- Inveigle
- Wheedle, led astray
- Perfidious
- Violating good faith, treacherous, dishonest
- Edacious
- Voracious, devouring
- Salacious
- Obscene
- Boorish
- Crude, offensive, rude
- Indolence
- Laziness
- Calumniate
- To slander, present false accusal
- Insularity
- Narrow-mindedness, isolated
- Cogent
- Convincing
- Sinuous
- Winding, undulating, serpentine
- Nexus
- A connection, tie, or link
- Interdict
- Prohibit, forbid
- Querulous
- Complaining, peevish, discontented
- Abjure
- Recant solemnly, repudiate, renounce
- Importune
- ask incessantly, to beg, to nag
- Zenith
- Top, highest point
- Expatiate
- to roam, wander freely
- Austere
- Forbiddingly stern, simple, unadorned, very plain
- Epicure
- Food lover, a connoisseur of food
- Laconic
- Brief, to the point, terse
- Attenuate
- make thin, weaken, enervate
- Remonstrate
- To protest, object
- Obstreperous
- Noisy, loud
- Contumacious
- Insubordinate, rebellious
- Mettlesome
- Courageous, high-spirited
- Cadge
- To beg, to get by begging
- Opprobrious
- Shameful, expressing disgrace
- Obloquy
- Abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, vituperation
- Accretion
- Growth, increase by successive addition, building up
- Diaphanous
- Transparent, gauzy
- Equivocate
- Lie, mislead, conceal the truth
- Xenophobe
- One who fears foreigners
- Chicanery
- Trickery
- Abscond
- To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest
- Emblem
- A symbol