SAT Vocabulary
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BigBadBomb on April 22, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ignomity | shame and disgrace |
| solicitude | a feeling of excessive concern |
| miser | a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) |
| reclusive | withdrawn from society |
| fleeting | lasting for a markedly brief time |
| egotistical | characteristic of false pride |
| frugal | avoiding waste |
| improvident | not provident |
| circuitous | marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct |
| discernment | the trait of judging wisely and objectively |
| salutary | tending to promote physical well-being |
| reticence | the trait of being uncommunicative |
| noisome | stinking; putrid |
| somorous | having or producing sound |
| pungent | sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell |
| degenerate | grow worse |
| vapid | lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar to the individual |
| insipid | not pleasing to the sense of taste |
| magnanimous | generous and understanding and tolerant |
| preconception | an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence |
| innocuous | unlikely to harm or disturb anyone |
| gregarious | seeking and enjoying the company of others |
| incontrovertible | necessarily or demonstrably true |
| scrupulous | characterized by extreme care and great effort |
| transient | enduring a very short time |
| antithetical | sharply contrasted in character or purpose |
| exuberant | produced or growing in extreme abundance |
| vehement | marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions |
| ostracized | to exlude from a group |
| aesthetics | (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) |
| drudgery | hard monotonous routine work |
| anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred |
| replete | fill to satisfaction |
| vacillated | wavered; hesitated |
| lurid | shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke |
| proscribe | command against |
| countenance | consent to, give permission |
| brevity | the attribute of being brief or fleeting |
| innate | not established by conditioning or learning |
| frivolous | not serious in content or attitude or behavior |
| restrain | place limits on (extent or access) |
| intermitten | stopping and starting at intervals |
| spontaneous | said or done without having been planned or written in advance |
| inadvertently | without knowledge or intention |
| ephemeral | enduring a very short time |
| divisive | creating conflict |
| peripheral | on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary |
| pedantry | a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning |
| unprecedented | never having happened before |
| prosaic | not challenging |
| unpretentious | not ostentatious |
| ostentatious | intended to attract notice and impress others |
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