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SAT's Most Important
SAT's Most IMportant Words
Question | Answer |
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abstruse | difficult to understand |
apt | appropriate or suitable in the circumstance |
cajole, coax | persuade someone to do something by flattery |
compendious | succinct |
concur | agree |
delineate | list or explain something precisely |
digression | straying from the subject |
elucidate | clarify |
embroil | involve in an argument of conflict |
empiric(al) | based on observation and experiment (not theory) |
enumerate | to list something |
epitome, epitomize | be a perfect example of something |
equivocal and ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation |
exemplar | epitome, epitomize |
exhort | encourage |
expedient | useful |
fathom | understand |
flagrant | evidently offensive |
floridity | bright |
incongruity, incongruous | not in harmony with surroundings |
ineffable | impossible to express in words |
innuendo | implicit suggestion |
laconic | concise |
lucid | clear and easily understood |
nebulous | vague, fogy |
nuance | a subtle difference in something |
paradigm | a typical example of something |
prattle | babble on about something |
pronouncement | to announce something |
proponent | supporter |
prosaic | ordinary |
rebuttal | a contradiction |
recant | reject |
rescind | annul |
repudiate | reject |
rhetoric(al) | elegant speech |
scrutinize | examine carefully |
simile | comparison |
tangential | digressive, irrelevant |
treatise | extensive written argument about some topic |
verbose | wordy |
aura | feeling of the air |
bombastic | pompous |
buoyant | cheerful, floating |
callous | insensitive |
cantankerous(ness) | irritable |
capricious | fickle |
caustic | bitter |
convivial | sociable, lively |
demonstrative | openly emotional |
despondent | sad, depressed |
diffident, diffidence | shy |
discomfited | disappointed, defeated |
disillusionment | disappointed |
dispassionate | unemotional |
elated, elation | joyful |
evoke | stir up |
felicitous | apt |
forlorn | sad |
fortitude | courage |
furor | commotion, anger |
histrionic | excessively dramatic or emotional |
idyllic | simply tranquil |
impetuous | impulsive |
irate | angry |
jaded | tired, bored |
jocular | cheerful |
jovial | cheerful |
maudlin | overly sentimental |
melancholy | depressed |
mercurial | fickle |
morose | depressed |
peevish | unpleasant |
penchant | preference |
perfunctory | done routinely with little interest or care |
petulant | irritable |
profundity, profound | intense, |
propensity | inclinations, tendency |
Impilcit | Implied though not plainly expressed |
subtle | Precise |