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
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