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SAT words
Question | Answer |
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Aberrant | Markedly different from an accepted norm |
aberration | Deviation from a right,customary, or prescribeal course. (the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.) |
Abondon | noun. total lack of inhibition (limit) |
abate | verb. To decrease, to reduce |
abjure | verb. to renounce under oath to abandon forever, to abstain from |
baleful | malignant (disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.) |
banal | commonplace |
bask | to make warm by genial heat |
beatify | to make supremely happy |
bedaub | to smear over, as with smething oily or sticky. |
cabal | A number of persons seretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose. |
cacophony | a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or compbination of sounds or tones. |
cajole | to impose on or dupe by flattering speech |
callow | without experience of the world |
Calumny | Salnder |
dearth | Scarcity, as of something customary, essential, or desirable. |
Defer | To delay or put off to some other time |
deign | to deem worthy of notice or account |
deleterious | Hurtful, morally or physically |
delineate | To represent by sketch or diagram |
earthenware | anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun |
ebullient | showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling |
edacious | given to eating |
edible | Suitable to be eaten |
educe | to draw out |
facetious | amusing |
facile | not difficult to do. |
factious | turbulent |
fallacious | illlogical |
fatuous | idiotic |
gainsay | to contradict; to deny |
gamut | the whole range or sequence |
garrulous | given to constant trival talking |
germane | relevant |
gesticulate | to make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech |
halcyon | calm |
harangue | a tirade |
harbinger | one who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing |
head | adv. precipitately, as in diving. |
heinous | odiously sinful |
iconoclast | an image-breaker |
idiosyncrasy | a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual |
ignoble | low in character or purpose |
ignominious | shameful |
illicit | unlawful |
jocular | inclined to joke |
jovial | merry |
judicious | prudent |
junta | a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon theaffairs of government |
lachrymose | given to shedding tears |
malaise | a condition of uneasiness or ill-being |
malcontent | one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs |
malevolence | ill will |
malign | to speak evil of, especially to do so falesly and severely |
malleable | pliant (easily influenced) (flexible) |
nadir | the lowest point |
nefarious | wicked in the extreme |
megligent | apt to omit what ought to be done |
neophyte | having the character of a beginner |
noisome | very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell |
obdurate | impassive t feelings of humanity or pity |
obfuscate | to darken; to obscure |
oblique | Slanting; said of lines |
bosequious | showing a servil readiness to fall in with the wishes of will of another |
obstreperous | boisterous (rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy) |
palatial | magnificent |
palliate | to cause to appear less guilty |
palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch |
panacea | a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases |
qualm | a fit of nausea |
quandary | a puzzling predicament |
quibble | an utterly trivial distinction or objection |
quiescence | being quite, still, or at rest; inactive |
quiescent | being in a state of repose or inaction |
raconteur | a person skilled in telling stories |
ramify | to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions |
rapacious | sieze by force, avaricious |
raucous | harsh |
reactionary | pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction. |
sagacious | able to discern and distinguish with wise perception |
salacious | having strong sexual desires |
salient | standing out prominently |
salubrious | healthful; promoting health |
salutary | beneficial |
taciturn | disinclined to conversation |
taut | stretched tight |
temerity | foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness |
terse | pithy |
timorous | lacking courage |
ubiquitous | being present everywhere |
ulterior | not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of |
umbrage | a sense of injury |
unctuous | oily |
undermine | to subvert in an underhand way |
vagary | a suddan desire or action |
vainglory | excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity |
valourous | courageous |
vapid | having lost sparkling quailty and flavor |
variegated | having marks or patches of different colors; also, varied |
wean | to transfer (the young) from dependence on mather's milk to another form of nourishment |
whimsical | capricious (subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim) |
winsome | attractive |
zenitgeist | the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch. |