Tricky SAT Words
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rowepaulin on April 15, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Censor | An official who examines public media to surpress parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds. |
| Complaisant | inclined or disposed to please; obliging; compliant |
| Decry | To speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless |
| Deferential | Showing deference; respectful |
| Differential | of or pertaining to difference or diversity |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy |
| Desultory | lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected |
| Discrete | apart or detached from others; separate; distinct |
| Dissemble | to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of |
| Duplicitous | deceitfulness in speech or conduct |
| Evanescent | vanishing; fading away; fleeting |
| Eminent | 1. high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished 2. conspicuous, signal, or noteworthy |
| Enervate | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken. |
| Extirpate | to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate |
| Extricate | to free or release from entanglement; disengage |
| Factitious | not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived |
| Fatuous | foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly |
| Felicity | the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss |
| Fidelity | strict observance of promises, duties; loyalty |
| Fortuitous | happening or produced by chance; accidenta |
| Gourmand | a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess |
| Gratuitous | given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary |
| Histrionics | dramatic representation; theatricals; acting |
| Indigent | lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished. |
| Indignant | feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy |
| Ingenuous | 1. innocent and unsuspecting 2. obsolete |
| Meddle | to interest oneself in what is not one's concern : interfere without right or propriety |
| Mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament |
| Mendicant | beggar |
| Mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| Meretricious | apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity |
| Meritorious | deserving of honor or esteem |
| Noisome | 1. offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell 2. noxious, harmful |
| Recapitulate | to restate briefly |
| Capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| Redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| Regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| Sacrosanct | treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation |
| Sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| Subsidiary | 1. furnishing aid or support 2. of secondary importance |
| Subsidize | to purchase the assistance of by payment of a subsidy |
| Temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness, recklessness |
| Timorous | of a timid disposition |
| Tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns |
| Tepid | 1. moderately warm 2. lacking in passion, force, or zest |
| Torpid | having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling |
| Tumid | marked by swelling : swollen, enlarged |
| Torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun |
| Turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| Urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| Vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| Venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; prone to corrupt influence |
| Venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable, pardonable; meriting no particular censure or notice : excusable |
| Virile | having the nature, properties, or qualities of an adult male |
| Virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
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