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