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    SAT Vocabulary List : Word list 16 25/01/2017, 10:16 PM

    Words from Official SAT Study Guide Test 1


    Accolade praise
    Allusion indirect reference
    Ambivalence uncertainty; having 'mixed' feelings
    Ambivalent unable to decide
    Analogy comparison
    Anecdote short account of something interesting; story
    Anomalous odd; not fitting the pattern
    Apparition ghost; something that 'appears'
    Aspersion negative feeling; damaging remark
    Belligerence aggression
    Bombastic too elaborate; exaggerated
    Candid truthful
    Capricious changeable; fickle
    Cherished cared for; firmly-held
    Cliche over-used expression
    Conception 1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy
    Convoluted complicated or long-winded
    Credence belief
    Cryptic hidden
    Currency 1. widespread acceptance, 2. money
    Decorous good and correct (used of behavior)
    Denunciation act of speaking out against
    Derailed thrown off course
    Derivative unoriginal
    Despotic acting like a tyrant
    Detritus rubbish
    Diaphanous very thin and transparent
    Dictum often-used saying
    Dilettante person who dabbles in the arts
    Disdained showed contempt for
    Dispassionate unbiased; fair
    Dowager an elderly woman of elevate social status
    Dubious doubtful
    Egalitarian equal; believer in equality
    Elicit draw out (used mainly for information or feelings)
    Elliptical 1. shaped like an ellipse, 2. indirect
    Epitomizes acts as a typical example of
    Equivocate speak ambiguously/vaguely
    Evasiveness trying to avoid something

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    Explicitly very clear; nothing hidden


    Foraging searching for food
    Hypothetical based on guesswork; not proven
    Iconoclast person who goes against accepted authority
    Idiosyncratic quirky; unique to an individual
    Imponderable cannot be understood
    Indecorous not well-behaved; lacking in dignity
    Indigence extreme poverty
    Inept clumsy
    Inherent inbuilt; genetic
    Intricate complicated
    Irrefutable cannot be proved wrong
    Jingoism using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism
    Jubilant joyful
    Judicious fair and equal
    Lament express regret over something
    Loquacious talkative; using too many words
    Mendicancy begging
    Metaphorical not literal; figurative
    Milieu environment; surroundings
    Mitigated made less severe
    Nascent just begun; in an early stage of development
    Nostalgia longing for the past
    Obtrusive easily seen
    Orthographical concerned with writing and spelling
    Ossified become fixed and rigid
    Ostentatious showy
    Palpable can be felt
    Pastoral 1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone
    Pedestrian 1. boring (adj), 2. person who walks (n)
    Perfidy treachery; betrayal
    Profligacy wasteful and immoral behavior
    Prohibitive very expensive
    Prudence wisdom; caution
    Pugnacious aggressive
    Purveyor one who sells something or causes something to spread
    Resonance echo
    Respite break (from work etc.)
    Resurgence revival
    Sparse thin; not thick
    Stringent strict

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    Succumbing giving in to; falling under the influence of


    Supercilious arrogant

    Tenacity firmness of purpose


    Transcend go beyond a limit
    Variegated multicolored
    Venerable worthy of respect
    Viable workable; able to live or grow
    Visceral concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental

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