Thursday, July 10, 2014

SAT Vocabulary Sparknotes

ruse: tending to deceive, trick
fastidious: cleanliness, or particular to details
licentious: promiscuous
viscerally: inward feelings not intellect.
pellucid: translucently clear
amiable: friendly manner
nascent: beginning to exist or develop
tepid: lack of enthusiasm, or moderately warm, lukewarm 
trite: stale, hackneyed, overused boring, 
whimsy: excessive play, capricious humor (erratic) 
whimsical: odd notion of whimsy
wit: showing perception
petulance: someone who is petulant, impassion irritation, annoyed by something small, ill tempered 
philistine: ignorant person who does not appreciate the arts
acrimony: harshness, bitterness
pulchritude: beauty
exigency: an urgent need or demand
dire: extremely urgent
somnolent: sleepy drowsy
exigent: urgent
precocious: unusually preconceived brain, developed mind
solicitous: anxious or concerned, particular, eager
salient: prominent or conspicuous (easily seen, flagrant)
salacious: lechery, lustful
decimate: to destroy a large amount
pallid: lacking interest, wan, deficient color
verdant: covered in vegetation, green
conflagration: a destructive fire
oblique: slope, not straight to the point
tacit: implied, not expressed directly but still understood
expounded: to explain, interpret, to state detail
malodorous: smelling really bad, odorous
unctuous: characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, excessively smooth, oily and soapy
torpid: inactive or sluggish
allure: to fascinate charm
sonorous: rich and nice sound, loud deep, a deep resonant (cave)
hackneyed: lacking freshness and banal
fecund: very productive capable of producing fruit
ribald: vulgar or indecent speech, abusive
recondite: dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter:
florid:
wafting:
opprobrious:
ethereal:
decry:
vacillate:
mawkish:
gregarious:
parsimonious:
obstreperous:
benign:
cantankerous:
modicum:
surmise:
bestow:
androgynous:
veracity: credo:
fetid:
supersedes:
nadir:
undulate:
inchoate: rudimentary, not complete
penurious: extremely stingy, destitute
indigent: lacking necessities of life
paragon: a model or pattern for excellence
effrontery: audacious. impudent, shameless
approbation: official approval, sanction
munificent: very generous 
abash: make embarrassed, ashamed, perturb, to disturb self possession, ruffle
obsequious: servile obedient, 
facile: easily done, affable, agreeable
misanthropic: a hater of humankind
rapprochement: establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relationships
sedition: to against the government 
incite: to urge on, persuade 
presumptuously: full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought. (to suppose)
unwarranted: sanction, approval, as for an action. 
lassitude: lack of energy, listlessness, languid, weak, no energy
pragmatism: practicallity
preempted: to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy, reschedule, 
eschew: to abstain from, keep away from
predilection: a tendency to think favorably of something in particular
assuage: to relieve, make less severe
bombastic: highly, inflated talk, pompous 
plaintive: mournful
abhor: disgust
corollary: something that results from something else
propagate: to spread and promote widely
annihilate: to destroy completely
ubiquity: the state of capacity of being everywhere
magnanimous: showing a generous kind nature
intrepid: fearless, bold
impetuous: sudden action, impuslive
harbinger: announces a warning to others
dispensable: being able to be administered, or thrown away, useless
conflagration: destructive large fire
fallacy: deceptive, misleading
candor: free of bias, truthful
notoriety: being publicly known for a specific trait (sometimes unfavorably)
kinesthetic: the sensation or movement or strain of the muscles
ossify: to harden like a bone, rigid, inflexible in attitudes and opinions,
jaundice: judgement is distorted, or bias
tenuous: weak (argument), thin, unsubstantial
homely: not beautiful, lacking physical attraction
approbation: commendation, approval, sanction- authoritative permission of approval
fabricate: to construct, to make art with labor, to invent
pilfer: to steal in small quantities
assail: assault, attack vigorously, violently,
chary: cautious, careful
ostensible: appearing to be true but is not
indelible: cannot be removed
untenable: not able to hold on, weak

Important Weird one:
impertinent- intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions;insolently rude; uncivil:, irrelevant 

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