Brian's Selected SAT Vocabulary

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• Impute n attribute action person group
• Ostentatious  (adj showy displaying wealth
• Querulous adj complaining irritable
• Abdicate v.) to give position leadership
• Abnegation n denial comfort oneself
• Abrogate v abolish authority to
• Abscond v sneak hide to
• Absolution n freedom blame guilt sin
• Accede v agree to
• Adumbrate v sketch vague to
• Aggrandize v increase make greater
• Anathema n person thing detested loathed
• Approbation n praise
• Ardor n extreme vigor energy enthusiasm
• Arrogate v justification to take
• Ascetic adj practicing restraint means self-discipline religious
• Aspersion n curse expression ill
• Blandish v coax flattery to
• Brusque adj short abrupt dismissive
• Burnish v polish shine to
• Candor n honesty frankness
• Carouse v party celebrate to
• Carp v annoy pester to
• Caucus n meeting held people working goal
• Cavort v leap behave boisterously
• Cloying adj sickeningly sweet
• Cobbler n person makes repairs shoes
• Cogent adj intellectually convincing
• Commodious adj roomy
• Concomitant adj accompanying subordinate fashion
• Consign v give another's care
• Consummate adj make perfect complete arrangement agreement n
• Contusion n bruise injury
• Corpulence adj extreme fatness
• Coup n brilliant unexpected act overthrow government
• Cupidity adj greed strong desire
• Demure adj quiet modest reserved
• Diffident adj shy quiet modest
• Dilatory adj tending delay causing
• Dirge n mournful song esp funeral
• Disaffected adj rebellious resentful authority
• Distend v swell to out
• Duress n hardship threat
• Ebullient adj extremely lively enthusiastic
• Effulgent adj radiant splendorous
• Equanimity n composure
• Evince v show reveal to
• Execrable adj loathsome detestable
• Exigent adj urgent critical
• Expiate v make amends atone
• Expurgate v remove offensive incorrect parts book
• Facile adj easy requiring effort superficial insincere
• Fastidious adj meticulous demanding
• Fecund adj fruitful fertile
• Felicitous adj suited delightful well
• Fetid adj foul odor having
• Fetter v chain restrain to
• Forbearance n patience restraint toleration
• Fortitude n strength guts
• Fractious adj troublesome irritable or
• Garish adj gaudy bad taste
• Guile n deceitful cunning sly behavior
• Hallowed adj revered consecrated
• Harangue n ranting speech v give
• Hegemony n domination over others
• Ignominious adj humiliating disgracing
• Impecunious adj poor
• Imperious adj commanding domineering
• Incendiary n person agitates adj inflammatory causing combustion
• Incorrigible adj incapable correction delinquent
• Inexorable adj incapable persuaded placated
• Ingenuous adj devious innocent candid
• Inimical adj hostile enemy-like
• Iniquity n wickedness sin
• Insidious adj appealing imperceptively harmful seductive
• Interlocutor n participates dialogue conversation
• Knell n solemn sound bell indicating death
• Largess n generous giving lavish gifts
• Licentious adj displaying lack moral legal restraints
• Limpid adj clear transparent
• Linchpin n holds separate parts
• Lithe adj graceful flexible supple
• Mawkish adj characterized sick sentimentality
• Mercurial adj characterized rapid change temperamentality
• Morass n wet swampy bog figuratively traps confuses
• Mores n moral attitudes fixed customs group people
• Multifarious adj great diversity variety
• Munificence n generosity giving in
• Nebulous adj vaguely defined cloudy
• Obdurate adj unyielding persuasion moral influences
• Obsequious adj excessively compliant submissive
• Obstreperous adj noisy unruly
• Officious adj offering one's services wanted needed
• Palliate v reduce severity to
• Pallid adj lacking color
• Parsimony n frugality stinginess
• Pellucid adj easily intelligible clear
• Penurious adj miserly stingy
• Perfunctory adj showing interest enthusiasm
• Pert adj flippant bold
• Pertinacious adj stubbornly persistent
• Pithy adj concisely meaningful
• Platitude adj uninspired remark cliche
• Plaudits n enthusiastic approval applause
• Plenitude n abundance an
• Pliable adj flexible
• Polemic n aggressive argument specific opinion
• Portent n omen an
• Potentate n great power ruler
• Preponderance adj superiority importance quantity
• Privation n state condition lacking basic necessities
• Probity n virtue integrity
• Profligate adj dissolute extravagant
• Proclivity n strong inclination usu bad
• Propensity n inclination preference an
• Promulgate v proclaim make to
• Propitious adj favorable
• Propriety n quality state proper decent
• Proscribe v condemn outlaw to
• Prurient adj eliciting possessing extraordinary interest sex
• Pulchritude n physical beauty
• Punitive adj involving punishment
• Quagmire n difficult situation a
• Quotidian adj daily
• Quixotic adj idealistic impractical
• Recalcitrant adj defiant unapologetic
• Recapitulate v sum repeat to
• Rectitude n uprightness extreme morality
• Remiss adj negligent failing care
• Replete adj full abundant
• Reprobate adj evil unprincipled
• Reprove v scold rebuke to
• Repudiate v reject authority refuse accept
• Requisition n demand goods made authority
• Restitution n restoration rightful owner
• Sanctimonious adj giving hypocritical appearance piety
• Satiate v satisfy excessively to
• Sanguine adj optimistic cheery
• Seminal adj original important creating field
• Sinuous adj lithe serpentine
• Staid adj sedate self-restrained serious
• Stolid adj expressing sensibility unemotional
• Surfeit n overabundant supply indulgence
• Toady n flatters hope gaining favors
• Torpid adj lethargic dormant lacking motion
• Travesty n grossly inferior imitation
• Torrid adj giving intense heat passionate
• Trenchant adj effective articulate clear-cut
• Tremulous adj fearful
• Truculent adj ready fight cruel
• Turpitude n depravity moral corruption
• Umbrage n resentment offense
• Unctuous adj characterized exaggerated insincere earnestness smooth greasy
• Variegated adj diversified distinctly marked
• Veneer n superficial deceptively attractive appearance facade
• Vicarious adj received suffered place substituting experiencing imagined
• Vicissitude n event occurs chance
• Vituperate v berate address harshly abusively
• Revile v assail contemptuous opprobrious language
• Opprobrious adj conveying expressing opprobrium disgrace reproach incurred
• Winsome adj charming pleasing
• Wizened adj dry shrunken wrinkled

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