MORE VOCAB!

So I was taking few practice tests and I noticed the vocabulary does not come easy!
Here is a list of words I came across

1. Urbane: sophisticated
2. placate: to make someone less angry
3. palliate: to reduce the severity
4. lewd = evil wicked = wanton
5. in satiable: unsatisfied
6. platitude: dull unoriginal statements
7. terse: short
8. trivial: unimportant
9. laud: praise
10. intermittent: irregular

11. Doleful: sorrowful

12. Ebullient: cheerful

13. Asinine: stupid 

14. surreptitious: clandestine, stealth 

15. supercilious: thinking above others 

16. saga: long narrative tale 

17. Plaintive: sad and mournful

18. Paradigm: framework, way of thought

19. Cupidity: avarice, desire for excess wealth

20. Charlatan: fraud, saying to know one thing but does not really

21. Intrepid: fearless

22. Insipid: lacking flavor dull 

23. Remunerate: to pay payment 

24. Conspicuous: standing out clear 

25. Watershed: a turning point, makes a change

26. Pertinent: to the point, clear 

27. Exculpate: to free from guilt or blame

28. Precipitate: to cause hastily quick impulsive 

More Critical Reading Vocabulary

1. Lassitude: fatigue
2. approbation: approval
3. insurgence: rebellion
4. antipathy: strong negative feeling against something
5. apathy: indifferent
6. folly: foolish
7. mendacious: telling lies
8. disseminate: to spread or scatter
9. obfuscate: to bewilder confuse
10. equivocation: to use words to be seem ambiguous
11. gaudy: showy
12. zephyr: gentle breeze
13. salvage: to save
14. render: to give
15. exacerbate: to make worse a situation
16. shrewd: good judgement, insight
17. implore: begging earnestly
18. baleful: threatening
19. assiduous: constant effort, diligent
20. maudlin: weak, emotionally unstable, sappy
21. profuse: abundant, giving away
22. exorbitant: highly excessive
23. stipulate: to specify a term to express a demand
24. dogmatic: relating to established principles
25. sophistry: a trick
26. abstruse: hard to understand
27. to instruct or benefit
28. mercurial: erratic
29. eschew: to go away from, keep away
30. destitute: lacking necessities of life
31. adage: saying, a traditional saying
32. palliate: to alleviate symptoms
Similar Words
Prudent = circumspect (watchful discreet, cautious)
parsimony = frugal not wasteful
perpetual = everlasting, continuing
jingoism- favoring loud manifestations of extreme patriotism
trifling- trivial- unimportant, insignificant
reproach- upbraid, censure - find fault or blame
disparaging- to belittle, to make feel worse
Words that Sound the Same

capacious- capable of holding
capricious- unpredictable, erratic

voracious: consuming a lot of food
rapacious: greedy inordinately (uncontrolled)

tentative- uncertain
tenacious- firm hold, cohesive, holding together

repudiate: to reject or disapprove
approbation: approval confirm

exacerbate: to make worse
exonerate: to free from guilt

Critical Reading Small Vocabulary List

1. palpable: being able to be touched  

2. asinine: ridiculous, lacking logic 

3. lackadaisical: without enthusiasm 

4. surreptitious: trying to avoid being noticed 

5. intrepid: fearless, courageous and bold 

6. spurious: not genuine 

7. dogmatic: has doctrine, has opinions 

8. palliative: soothing, treating symptoms 

9. languid: without energy, lacking vigor 

10. adroit: skill full 

SAT Focus Month December: Writing Only

So I decided I am taking the SAT in March. What I plan to do is each month focus on one subject. I will not switch until I mastered it!

So for December I chose Writing. My Goal is to miss -0 on the multiple choice and get a  9+ on the Essay

Start the Review

1. Check perspective of the sentence for example:
Unfortunately, the opening of the new library complex, previously scheduled for next september, would be delayed for several months because of construction difficulties. (should be will be delayed)

2. "To relieve the moment" must be followed with to do so not to do it. 

RP 59 PSAT Test Review 
Tips
1. Passive form is not liked. Remove "by her"
2. keep in same tense
Examples
1. "When he was six years old" "was already"
2. Fran would have been happy had he simply requested help

PSAT Last minute Vocabulary

indignant: anger
peremptory: no denial or refusal
perfunctory: mere routine
defiant: boldly resistant
perceptive: understanding
boorish: insensitive
quiescent: inactive, motionless
affable: friendly
candor: honesty
assiduous: vary careful, persistent
pensive: dreamily thoughtful
incredulous: unwilling to believe
laudable: praiseworthy
exasperate: to anger, annoy
mercurial: unpredictable
promulgate: to announce
bolster: to encourage, to support
mendacity: telling lies
jocular: joking
wanton: sexual, random, hard to control
gregarious: friendly
venerate: to regard with respect
palliate: to reduce intensity, mitigate
prosaic: unimaginative
benign: expressing kindness
diffident: lacking self-confidence
tentative: uncertain, slow and unsure
dissident: person who a-posses official rule
hedonist: loving pleasure
sublime: elevated or lofty in thought (lofty: high ranking exalted)
plaintive: expressing sadness
profundity: intellectual depth
penchant: a strong liking or taste, tendency
venality: openness to corruption
prosaic: unimaginative, dull
furtive: secretive
trivialized: reduce value, or importance
fanciful: imaginary

Math Review For PSAT Get that #800

SAT Equations and Notes

1. To find average list of consecutive numbers  (first+last)/2
2. How to find the --th term in a sequence: first number + (value --th term -1) X the sequence
3. How to find the remainder? Divide A/B. Subtract the integral part to just get a decimal. Multiply by b
4. Add two sides of a triangle, the third side is smaller. Subtract two sides, the third side must be larger
5. Formula to find the area - multiply the diameters divided by 2
6. Area of a equilateral triangle is sqrt(3)/4 * r^2
7. Arc length = circumference * x (degrees of arc) /360 (Same with area)
8. When order does not matter, how many combinations are there? x!/y!(x-y)! (x total) (y what needed)
9. (5/3)^-1 this flips it to be (3/5)
10. Finding average speed if distance is different: Find ratios of the time and do Distance = rate X time
11.

SAT Review

Critical Reading 
Vocabulary:
1. bashful: embarrassed or shy 

2. relinquish: to give up, to release let go

3. bequeath: to dispose of
4. ameliorate: to make better
5. exonerate: to free from guilt 
6. soporific: causing sleep 
7. maudlin: foolishly sentimental 
8. wanton: unjustifiable action, done with (uncalled for) 

9. edify: to improve 

10. candor: frank and sincere 

11. assuage: to make less sever 

12. reticence: being reserved 

13. sanguine: cheerfully optimistic 

14. flippant: shallow, lacking seriousness 

15. mercurial: volatile, changeable, erratic

16. vehement: strong ardent, passion 

17. Jaundice: judgment, prejudice 

18. chary: careful 

19. furtive: shifty, sly 

20. futile: ineffective useless

21. penchant: a strong inclination 

22. profundity: deep into a subject

23. cacophony: harsh unpleasant sound 

24. fastidious: hard to please, critical demanding

25. derisive: making fun of

SAT blue book test #1 

Section 6 Grammar

8. A cure for some kinds of cancer, scientists believe, may be found within the next decade

A. Scientists believe, may be

E.  Which, some scientists believe, may be

My answer should be more simple 

SAT October 2011

be altered or changed
or
to be altered

same meaning so the second option is more clear
before careful

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