click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
SAT Vocab 6/13/12
Random, hard words
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Congenial | pleasant because of personality, qualities, or interests |
Prolific | abundant, usually in a good way |
Subversive | to undermine the power and authority of |
Fawning | exaggerated show of flattery or affection |
Nonchalance | casually calm and relaxed; indifferent |
Digression | to wander off topic |
Coalesce | to come together as a whole |
Presumptuous | going beyond what is right and proper |
Relinquish | to give up |
Embellish | to make something more attractive by adding stuff to it |
Convalesce | slow healing after sickness |
Extirpate | root out and destroy |
Libertine | man without moral principles |
Macabre | gruesome |
Plebeian | a common person |
Abscond | to run away furtively |
Sinecure | easy, high-paying job |
Volley | hail of items, usually weapons |
Febrile | feverish energy |
Facetious | flippant |
Hubris | excessive self-pride |
Ingratiate | to fawn |
Incarnadine | skin-colored; apricot |
Obfuscate | bewilder; obscured |
Diluvial | relating to floods |
Anodyne | sedative; pain-killer |
Potentate | monarch or ruler |
Recidivism | habitual relapse into crime |
Tempestuous | very stormy |
Vituperate | blame or insult in an offensive language |