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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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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