Important SAT Words
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41 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Absteminous | refusing pleasure |
| Ameliorate | improve |
| Ascendency | dominating |
| Bungle | botch |
| Capitulate | complete surrender |
| Clemency | mercy |
| confide | discuss secretly |
| confound | perplex |
| congeal | solidify |
| convivial | friendly |
| cursory | skimming |
| disentangle | untangle |
| distend | expand |
| efface | rub out |
| effervesce | bubble |
| ephemeral | fleeting |
| evanescent | fleeting |
| fallow | uncultivated |
| hackneyed | cliched |
| irascible | easily angered |
| kindle | ignite |
| maladroit | unskillful |
| penury | abject poverty |
| proclivity | natural inclination |
| prodigious | abnormal amount |
| profuse | extravagant |
| recalcitrant | disobedient |
| replete | abundantly supplied |
| rescind | invalidate |
| ruffle | disturb |
| salubrious | healthful |
| somber | gloomy |
| spurn | reject with disdain |
| squander | spend wastefully |
| stymie | discouraging circumstance |
| sumptuous | lavish |
| surreptitious | clandestine |
| tenacious | cohesive |
| venturesome | taking risks |
| virulent | bitter |
| whet | sharpen |
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