Flashcards: SAT vocab set 14
All 50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abominate | to hate |
| adroit | skillful and clever |
| aggregate | to collect |
| amalgam | a combination or mixture |
| anguish | great suffering |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| assess | to estimate the value of |
| auspicious | favorable |
| beneficial | advantageous |
| bliss | extreme happiness |
| buoyant | tendancy to float |
| chronology | an order of events from earliest to latest |
| color | to affect, especially to influence another's opinions or beliefs |
| compulsive | being forced by inner drives |
| consummate | perfect |
| copious | abundant |
| curmudgeon | a bad-tempered person |
| deluge | a flood |
| derivative | unoriginal |
| devoid | empty |
| disperse | to distribute widely |
| dogmatic | dictatorial |
| egregious | remarkably bad |
| entourage | group of people |
| estrange | to remove |
| exhort | to warn |
| fervor | passion |
| frivolous | not serious |
| hasten | to quicken |
| immune | protected against |
| inane | silly |
| inept | clumsy |
| insurmountable | insuperable |
| judicious | exercising sound judgement |
| malicious | spiteful |
| morose | sad |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| paramount | supreme |
| perverse | disobediant |
| predilection | a strong liking for |
| propagate | to reproduce (itself) |
| rapacious | taking by force |
| renounce | to give up formally |
| rigidity | stiffness |
| skeptical | doubtful |
| subjugate | to conquer and dominate |
| temerity | boldness |
| trivial | unimportant |
| vague | unclear |
| voluble | talkative |