Dana's SAT Words
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46 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pacify | to calm down |
| substantiate | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts |
| jettison | to cast overboard; to discard |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| raiment | clothing; garments |
| sustenance | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence |
| flotsam | the floating wreckage of a ship |
| irascible | quickly aroused to anger |
| churlish | having a bad disposition |
| disposition | attitude or mood |
| mercurial | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
| coercive | Serving or tending to force. |
| caustic | harsh or corrosive in tone |
| disingenuous | lacking genuine candor; insincere |
| implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful, impossible to placate |
| phlegmatic | slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional |
| emphatic | forceful and definite in expression or action |
| omnipotent | all-powerful |
| potent | strong, powerful |
| contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
| didactic | intending to teach; instructive |
| stringent | strict |
| bucolic | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
| remonstrate | argue in protest or opposition |
| erudite | having or showing profound knowledge |
| erudition | scholarship |
| pedagogy | teaching; art of education |
| prophetic | telling the future; clairvoyant, foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
| reticent | shy |
| bellicose | warlike |
| belligerent | inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive |
| docile | easily handled or managed; slave-like |
| sanctimonious | excessively or hypocritically pious |
| deferential | respectful and polite in a submissive way |
| discriminating | marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions |
| obliterate | destroy, remove completely from recognition or memory |
| tacit | silent, unspoken |
| fervent | passionate, ardent |
| impetuous | quick to anger, rash, impulsive |
| bereft | deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
| mitigate | make less severe or harsh |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems |
| loquacious | very talkative |
| contemptuous | feeling hatred; scornful |
| antipodes | any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth |
| bifurcate | split or divide into two |
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