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SAT Vocab v1.0
First Round!
Question | Answer |
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felicitous | pleasant, delightful, suitably expressed |
euphonious | pleasing to the ear |
distend | to expand, to swell |
reciprocal | mutual, shared, inversely relate |
vacuous | empty, vacant; stupid, inane |
debacle | disaster; failure |
rectitude | moral uprightness; righteousness |
repudiate | to reject the validity/authority of |
sanctimonious | feigning piety or righteousness |
sophistry | plausible but misleading or fallacious argument |
chicanery | trickery |
reciprocate | to return in kind; to mutually share |
effrontery | brazen boldness; presumptuousness |
impugn | to attack as false or questionable |
pejorative | belittling |
prodigious | monumental; huge; exciting wonder |
ingenuous | naïve; frank |
ingenious | clever; resourceful; guileful |
chimerical | fantastic or highly improbable |
lucid | clearly understood |
euphemism | vagary to substitute for harshness |
orthodox | adhering to tradition, esp. religion |
dichotomous | division between two contradictory or exclusive groups |
didactic | instructive, educational |
extrapolate | to infer from given info |
circumspect | prudent, discreet |
husbandry | application of science to agriculture; esp. breeding |
perspicuous | clear-sighted; shrewd |
pragmatic | practical |
precocious | genius at young age |
staid | unemotional (staid demeanor) |
esoteric | intended for only a small group |
gaffe | social error |
potentate | powerful person; monarch |
vituperative | bitingly caustic, abusive, condemning |
contiguous | touching boundaries |
incontrovertible | indisputable |
indict | to formally charge with crime |
litigious | prone to engaging in lawsuits |
partisan | biased/devoted to a specific party, group, or cause |
parity | equality, as in amount, status, or value |