my sat I vocab list
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- abase
- lower, humiliate
- abash
- to embarrass
- abate
- to lessen
- abstruse
- profound, difficult to understand
- abominate
- to loathe, hate
- accentuate
- to emphasize
- acclivity
- sharp incline of a hill
- accost
- to approach and speak to
- adroit
- skilled
- baleful
- wicked, full of malign intent
- baneful
- deadly, poisonous
- barrister
- lawyer
- beatific
- obscene, coarse
- begrudge
- to resent
- beguile
- to trick
- bellicose
- warlike
- benevolent
- kind
- cache
- hiding place
- calumniate
- to slander
- cajole
- to coax
- callous
- unfeeling
- cantankerous
- quarrelsome
- capitulate
- surrender
- dearth
- scarcity
- demur
- to object mildly
- diaphonous
- transluscent
- debase
- lower in quality, abase
- depraved
- debased, morally corrupt
- deranged
- insane
- descry
- to discern
- desultory
- aimless
- ebullient
- extremely happy
- edify
- to educate, enlighten
- educe
- deduce, extract, elicit
- effete
- worn out, tired
- emaciated
- lean, thin
- epitaph
- inscription on tomb
- facetious
- rudely humorous
- fastidious
- nit-picky
- fatuous
- stupid
- fecund
- fertile, productive, creative
- gainsay
- to deny, dispute
- garrulous
- loquacious
- germane
- relevant
- gestate
- to transform and grow
- gibe
- to pick on
- gloaming (n)
- twilight
- gossammer
- light, delicate, insubstantial
- hallowed
- holy, sacred
- harbinger
- forerunner, omen
- hedonism
- happy and carefree
- heinous
- wicked
- hirsule
- hairy
- hoary
- gray or white with age, old
- iconoclast
- destroyer of tradition
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- imbibe
- to absorb
- imbue
- to saturate, to inspire
- imminent
- impending
- immutable
- not changeable
- impale
- pierce
- impasse
- dead end
- impassive
- expressionless
- jaded
- wearied
- jingoism
- extreme patriotism
- jocose/jocular/jocund
- merry
- ken
- range of knowledge
- kismet
- fate
- knave/knavery
- clever bad guy, dishonest dealing
- lacerate
- to rip, maul, tear
- lackadaisical
- lacking in spirit
- laconic
- terse, concise, succinct
- lambaste
- to thrash, maul; to scold sharply
- larceny
- thievery
- lascivious
- lusty, lewd
- lassitude
- listlessness, weakness
- latent
- potent but not yet displayed
- macabre
- gross, ghastly
- malediction
- spoken curse
- malign
- to slander
- maritime
- to do with sea or navigation
- nadir
- low point
- nascent
- emerging
- nefarious
- evil
- neologism
- newly coined word
- neophyte
- beginner
- nexus
- bond/link between things
- noisome
- filthy
- nonplussed
- baffled
- noxious
- harmful to health or morals
- obdurate
- hardened against good influence
- obsequious
- fawning
- obstreperous
- unruly
- occult
- pertaining to supernatural phenomena
- odious
- offensive, hatefule
- officious
- pushy, obnoxious
- olfactory
- pertaining to smell
- onerous
- burdensome
- opulent
- rich, wealthy
- orifice
- small opening
- palatable
- edible
- palliate
- to abate
- pallid
- pale complexioned
- palpable
- tangible
- paragon
- model/perfect example
- parch
- to make dry
- parsimonious
- stingy
- pathos
- pity
- ethos
- characteristic spirit of a time/place
- paucity
- dearth
- pecuniary
- related to money
- euphemism
- mild way of putting something
- quail
- to draw back in fear
- qualm
- doubt
- querulous
- complaining, peevish
- quip
- quick point
- aberration
- departure from normalcy (usually unwelcome)
- abet
- assist in wrongdoing
- abject
- extremely bad, severe, acute
- abjure
- to solemnly renounce
- abrogation
- act of repealing (a law, right)
- abrogate
- to reject or repeal (a law or right)
- absolution
- formal release from guilt, obligation or punishment
- accede
- agree; assume a post, role, job
- accretion
- accumulation (in layers), growth
- acrimony
- bitter, ill-feeling
- adumbrate
- suggest an idea, indicate faintly; symbolize; overshadow
- affinity
- spontaneous, natural liking for st
- aggregate
- a whole formed by many parts
- agnostic
- doubtful, noncommittal
- ally
- to assuage, lessen, calm, reduce
- amalgamate
- to combine, unify
- amenable
- able to be led; willing; responsible (for st)
- analgesic
- remedy that allays pain
- anomaly
- deviation from normalcy, incongruity
- antediluvian
- antiquated
- antithesis
- direct opposite
- appraise
- assess, evaluate
- approbation
- commendation, praise; official approval
- appropriate
- to earmark
- arable
- land fit to be cultivated
- arbitrate
- to judge, decide between opposing sides
- arcane
- obscure, esoteric
- archetype
- original model, prototype
- arrogate
- to claim/appropriate for oneself
- ascribe
- to attribute to
- aspersion
- slander
- assiduous
- diligent; constant, unremitting
- atrophy
- to waste away, deteriorate
- behemoth
- any creature of monstrous size
- bereft
- deprived (esp by death)
- bilk
- to cheat
- blandish
- to cajole
- blight
- destrution, ruin
- bombastic
- high-flown (of speech or writing)
- carouse
- to engage in drunken revel
- carp
- a peevish complaint
- caustic
- severely critical or sarcastic
- cavort
- to prance or caper
- censure
- harsh criticism
- circumlocution
- wordy language
- circumscribed
- marked off, bounded
- circumspect
- cautious
- circumvent
- to get around, evade
- cleave
- to divide into parts; to stick firmly together
- clemency
- mercy
- coagulate
- to thicken, clot
- coalesce
- to fuse into a whole
- cogent
- intellectually convincing
- cognizant
- aware, mindful
- collateral
- secondary; security for debt
- collusion
- conspiracy
- commensurate
- corresponding in size or amount
- complicit
- being an accomplice in a wrongful act
- compunction
- distress caused by feeling guilty
- concomitant
- accompanying in a subordinate fashion
- condone
- to pardon, deliberately overlook
- conduit
- pipe/channel through which something passes
- conflagration
- great fire
- congeal
- to thicken into a solid
- congruity
- the quality of being in agreement
- connive
- to plot/ scheme
- consign
- to give something over to another's care
- contravene
- to contradict, oppose, violate
- contrite
- penitent, eager to be forgiven
- contusion
- bruise, injury
- convoluted
- intricate, complicated
- corrosive
- having the tendency to eat away
- cupidity
- greed, strong desire
- debauch
- to corrupt by means of sensual pleasure
- deleterious
- harmful
- demagogue
- a leader who appeals to people's prejudices
- demarcation
- the marking of boundaries or categories
- denigrate
- to belittle, diminish the opinion of
- derelict
- run down
- didactic
- intended to instruct, particularly in a patronizing way
- dilatory
- tending to delay
- dirge
- mournful song, esp for a funeral
- disaffected
- rebellious, resentful of authority
- dissemble
- to conceal, fake
- distend
- to swell
- dither
- to be indecisive
- dogmatic
- aggressively certain about certain principles
- edict
- order, decree
- effrontery
- nerve, insolence
- egregious
- extemely bad
- emend
- correct or revise a written text
- emollient
- soothing
- enfranchise
- to bring the vote to
- epistolary
- relating to or contained in letters
- equanimity
- composure
- evanescent
- momentary, fleeting
- evince
- to show or reveal
- execrable
- loathsome, detestable
- exhort
- to urge, prod, spur
- exonerate
- to free from guilt, exculpate
- expedient
- advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest
- expiate
- to atone, make amends for
- expunge
- to obliterate, eradicate
- extant
- existing, not lost or destroyed
- extricate
- to disentangle
- exult
- to rejoice
- felicitous
- well-suited, apt; delightful, pleasing
- feral
- wild, savage
- fetid
- malodorous
- fetter
- to chain, restrain
- flaccid
- limp, not firm or strong
- flagrant
- offensive, egregious
- florid
- flowery, ornate; red or flushed
- flout
- to disregard or disobey openly
- frenetic
- frenzied, hectic, frantic
- gratuitous
- uncalled for, unwarrented
- hegemony
- domination
- impecunious
- poor
- imperious
- commanding, domineering
- impetuous
- rash, hasty
- impinge
- to impact, affect, make an impression; to encroach or infringe
- implacable
- incapable of being appeased or mitigated
- implicate
- incriminate
- inane
- silly and meaningless
- incendiary
- inflammatory, causing combustion
- inchoate
- unformed or in a beginning state
- incumbent
- obligatory; one who holds office
- indigent
- impoverished
- indolent
- lazy
- ineffable
- incapable of being expressed thru words
- inexorable
- incapable of being persuaded (people) or placated/prevented/stopped
- ingenuous
- not devious, innocent, sincere
- inimical
- hostile, enemy-like
- iniquity
- wickedness or sin
- insipid
- dull, borin
- insular
- separated and narrow-minded, closed off, tight-knit
- insurgent
- one who rebels
- interlocutor
- one who participates in a dialogue or convention
- intractable
- difficult to manipulate, control
- intransigent
- refusing to compromise
- inure
- to cause someone to become accustomed to a situation
- inveterate
- stubbornly established by habit
- iridescent
- showing rainbow colors
- knell
- solemn sound of a bell often indicating death
- laceration
- cuts, tears
- largess
- generosity in giving lavish gifts
- legerdemain
- deception, slight-of-hand
- licentious
- displaying lack of moral or legal restraints
- limpid
- clear, transparent
- linchpin
- something holding two parts together
- litigant
- s.o. involved in a lawsuit
- lurid
- ghastly, sensational
- maelstrom
- a destructive whirlpool which sucks in objects
- manifold
- diverse, varied
- maudlin
- weakly sentimental
- mawkish
- extreme sentimentality
- maxim
- adage
- mendacious
- having a lying character
- morass
- a wet swamp; st that traps and confuses
- munificence
- generosity in giving
- nebulous
- vague, cloudy
- obfuscate
- to render incomprehensible
- oblique
- not straightforward
- obtuse
- lacking quickness of intellect
- ostensible
- seeming, apparent
- ostracism
- exclusion from a group
- panacea
- a cure-all, remedy
- paradigm
- example, perfect model
- paramount
- greatest in importance, rank, character
- patent
- clear, readily seen/understood
- pathology
- deviation from normalcy
- pellucid
- easily intelligible, clear
- penitent
- remorseful, regretful
- penurious
- miserly, stingy
- perfidious
- disloyal, unfaithful
- perspicacity
- shrewdness, perception
- pert
- flippant, bold
- pertinacious
- stubbornly persistent
- petulance
- irritability, rudeness
- phlegmatic
- uninterested, unresponsive
- pillage
- to plunder or seize, esp in war
- pithy
- concisely meaningful
- pittance
- a very small amount, usu relating to money
- platitude
- uninspired remark, cliche
- plaudits
- enthusiastic approval, applause
- plenitude
- abundance
- potable
- drinkable
- polemic
- an aggressive argument against a specific opinion
- potentate
- one who has great power, ruler
- precipice
- the face of a cliff
- preponderance
- superiority in importance or quality
- prepossessing
- occupying the mind to the exclusion of other thoughts
- prescient
- clairvoyant
- prescribe
- to lay down a rule
- primeval
- original, ancient
- privation
- lack of basic necessities
- probity
- virtue, integrity
- proclivity
- a strong inclination toward something
- procure
- to obtain, acquire
- profligate
- dissolute, extravagant
- promulgate
- to proclaim, make known
- propagate
- to multiply, spread out
- propitious
- favorable
- prosaic
- plain, lacking liveliness
- proscribe
- to condemn or outlaw
- protean
- able to change shape, varied
- puerile
- juvenile, immature
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome, combative
- pulchritude
- physical beauty
- punitive
- involving punishment
- rail
- to scold, protest
- recalcitrant
- defiant, unapologetic
- rectitude
- uprightness, morality
- refract
- to distort or change
- relegate
- to assign to proper place; to an inferior place
- repentant
- penitent
- reprobate
- evil, unprincipled
- repudiate
- to refuse to accept
- repulse
- to disgust; to push back at
- requisition
- demand for goods, usu by an authority
- rescind
- to repeal, to take back
- restitution
- restoration to rightful owner
- restive
- resistant, stubborn, impatient
- rhapsodize
- to engage in a lot of enthusiasm
- ribald
- coarsely humorous
- rife
- abundant
- saccharine
- sickeningly sweet
- sacrosanct
- holy
- sanctimonious
- giving hypocritical appearance of piety
- sanguine
- optimistic, cheery
- scurrilous
- vulgar, coarse
- semaphore
- visual signal
- seminal
- original, important, groundbreaking
- solicitous
- concerned, attentive
- solipsistic
- self-centered
- solvent
- able to pay debts
- somnolent
- sleepy
- sophomoric
- immature, uninformed
- stolid
- unemotional
- strident
- harsh and loud
- surfeit
- a surplus or overabundance or indulgence
- sycophant
- one who flatters for self gain
- tenable
- able to to maintained or defended
- tenuous
- having little substance or strength, weak
- toady
- sycophant
- torpid
- lethargic, dormant, lacking motion
- torrid
- giving off intense heat, passion
- tractable
- able to be controlled
- transgress
- to violate or go over a limit
- transient
- passing briefly
- transmute
- to change in form
- travesty
- a grossly inferior imitation
- tremulous
- fearful
- trenchant
- effective, articulate, clear cut
- turgid
- swollen, excessively embellished in style or language
- turpitude
- depravity
- unctuous
- smooth or greasy in texture, appearance, or manner
- undulate
- moving in waves
- utilitarian
- useful
- vapid
- dull, lacking liveliness
- livid
- furious
- variegated
- varied, diverse
- veracity
- truthfulness
- verdant
- green in color
- vilified
- defamed or lowered in importance
- vindictive
- revengeful
- vitriolic
- having a caustic quality
- vituperate
- berate
- wane
- diminish
- winsome
- charming
- wizened
- dry, shrunken, wrinkled
- yoke
- to join or link
- zephyr
- gentle breeze
- refractory
- stubborn or unmanageable
- rebuke
- to reprimand
- manumit
- emancipate
- bivouac
- temporary encampment
- badinage
- petty teasing conversation
- incontinent
- uncontrolled, licentious
- tribulation
- suffering
- machinate
- to scheme
- odoriferous
- giving off an odor
- bugaboo
- object of baseless terror
- curmudgeon
- churlish or ill tempered
- maverick
- nonconformist
- abey
- suspend an activity or postpone
- abstemious
- moderate
- acuity
- acuteness, keenness
- adherent
- believer, supporter, devotee
- adjunct
- auxiliary capacity or appendage
- adulterate
- to contaminate
- aperture
- a gap, opening, orifice
- apotheosis
- essence or high point
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