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SAT Vocab 1-5
Flashcards for SAT vocabulary lists 1-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| meticulous | adj; very careful about detail; fussy |
| mitigate | v; to make or become milder or less severe; to moderate |
| morose | adj; gloomy; bad tempered |
| nomenclature | n; a systematic naming in an art or science |
| nonchalance | n; careless; lack of interest or concern |
| obliterate | v; to blot out leaving no trace; to destroy |
| obscure | adj; not clear; hidden; remote; not well known |
| obselete | adj; out of date |
| officious | adj; meddling; giving unnecessary or unwanted advice or services |
| opportunist | n; one who takes advantage of any opportunity without regard for moral conduct |
| opulent | adj; wealthy; abundant |
| overt | adj; not hidden; open |
| painstaking | adj; very careful; diligent |
| pariah | n; outcast |
| parsimonious | adj; too thrifty; stingy |
| partisan | adj; showing a strong support for a party or cause |
| paucity | n; scarcity; smallness in number |
| peerless | adj; having no equal; better than the rest |
| perceptive | adj; discerning; observant |
| perfidy | n; treachery; betrayal of trust |
| peripheral | adj; external; incidental; tangential |
| peruse | v; to study; to read |
| philistine | adj; narrow-minded; smugly conventional n; a dull, often priggish person guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values |
| piety | n; devotion and reverence, especially to gods and family |
| pique | v; to hurt the feelings of or make resentful; to arouse or excite n; a temporary feeling of wounded vanity; fit of resentment |
| placate | v; to soothe; to pacify |
| placid | adj; outwardly calm or composed; self-satisfied; peaceful |
| plagiarize | v; to take ideas or writing from someone else and present them as one's own; to use without giving credit |
| ponderous | adj; very heavy; bulky; labored and dull or tiresome |
| pragmatic | adj; practical; opinionated; concerned with actual practice rather than theory or speculation |
| preclude | v; to make impossible; to shut out; to prevent |
| precocious | adj; having or showing much more ability or knowledge than is usual at such a young age; early or prematurely ripe or developed |
| prestigious | adj; honored; having an illustrious name or reputation |
| pretentious | adj; claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit; showy; self-important |
| procrastinate | v; to put off doing something until a later time; to delay |
| prodigious | adj; enormous; extraordinary; marvelous |
| profane | adj; secular; unholy; irreverent; not religious |
| profusion | n; abundance; a great or generous amount; extravagance |
| prolific | adj; producing many offspring; much; abundant |
| propensity | n; having a natural leaning or tendency; bent |
| provincial | adj; having the ways and speech of a certain province; of or like country people as apart from city people; unsophisticated; narrow-minded |
| prudent | adj; careful or cautious in a sensible way; wise; frugal |
| pugnacious | adj; eager to fight; quarrelsome |
| quandary | n; condition of being doubtful or confused |
| querulous | adj; peevish; faultfinding; expressing or suggestive of complaint |
| quixotic | adj; idealistic and utterly impractical |
| raconteur | n; a person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes |
| rancor | n; deep spite or malice; strong hate or bitter feeling |
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