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SAT
Fifth set of 50 hot words for the SAT.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ample (am-pul) | adj. abundant; plentiful; enough or more than enough |
| Copious (koh-pee-us) | adj. abundant; much; plentiful |
| Lavish (La-vish) | adj. abundant; in excess |
| Myriad (mir-ee-ud) | adj. or n.countless; a very large number |
| Plethora (pleh-thuh-ruh) | adj. excess; abundance |
| Profuse (pruh-fyoos) | adj. abundance; more than enough |
| Prolific (pruh-li-fik) | adj. abundant; producing a great deal; fertile |
| Superfluous (soo-pur-floo-us) | adj. over abundant; more than is needed unnecessary |
| Surfeit (sur-fut) | n. an oversupply |
| Abstemious (ab-stee-mee-us) | adj. holding back from eating or drinking too much |
| Alimentary (a-luh-men-tree) | adj. relating to food and nourishment |
| Culinary (kul-luh-ner-ee) | adj. having to do with cooking, preparing meals |
| Delectable (dih-lek-tuh-bul) | adj. delicious |
| Emaciated (ih-may-shee-ay-tid) | adj. very, very thin due to lack of adequate food |
| Epicurean (eh-pih-kyoo-ree-un) n. epicure | adj. or n. having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking |
| Glutton (gluh-tun) | n. one who overindulges in food and drink |
| Palatable (pa-luh-tuh-bul) | adj. pleasing to the taste buds |
| Ravenous (ra-vuh-nus) | adj. very hungry |
| Savory (say-vuh-ree) | adj. tasty or good smelling |
| Voracious (vuh-ray-shus) | adj. greedy; gluttonous; ravenous; insatiable |
| Chary (chair-ee) | adj. cautious; wary |
| Circumspect (sur-km-spekt) | adj. careful and cautious before acting |
| Conscientious (kahn-shee-en-shus) | adj, relating to doing what one knows is right |
| Exacting (ig-zak-ting) | adj. requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking |
| Gingerly (jin-jer-lee) | adj. very carefully |
| Heedful (heed-ful) | adj. paying attention to |
| Meticulous (muh-tih-kyoo-lus) | adj. very careful; fussy; finicky; fastididious |
| Scrupulous (skroo-pyoo-lus) | adj. showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper |
| Vigilant (vi-juh-lunt) | adj. carefully alert and watchful |
| Wary (wair-ee) | adj. cautious, careful |
| Ephemeral (ih-fem-rul) | adj. lasting a short time; fleeting |
| Evanescent (eh-vuh-neh-snt) | adj. vanishing quickly; fleeting |
| Fleeting (flee-ting) | adj. short-lived |
| Itinerant (eye-tih-nuh-runt) | adj. wandering about: tending to move around, travel |
| Nomadic (no-ma-dik) | adj. wandering |
| Peripatetic (per-uh-puh-teh-tik) | adj. moving or walking about; itinerant |
| Transient (tran-shee-unt) | adj. lasting for only a short time; temporary |
| Transitory (tran-suh-tawr-ee) | adj. fleeting |
| Volatile (vah-luh-tl) | adj. explosive or changing very quickly |
| Antediluvian (an-tih-duh-loo-vee-un) | adj. very, very old; antiquated |
| Antiquated (an-tuh-kway-tud) | adj. very old and no longer in use; obsolete |
| Antiquity (an-tih-kwuh-tee) | n. ancient times |
| Archaic (ar-kay-ik) | adj. old; from a much earlier time; antiquated |
| Obsolete (ahb-suh-leet) | adj. old outdated, no longer in use |
| Rlic (reh-lik) | n. a custom or object that has been around for generations |
| Contemporary (kun-tem-puh-rer-ee) | adj. modern, new; relating to the same time period |
| Inception (in-sep=shun) | n. the start, the beginning of something |
| Innovation (ih-nuh-vay-shun) | n. something new |
| Novel (nah-vul) | adj. new |
| Unprecedented (un-preh-suh-den-tud) | adj. novel; unparalleled |
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