SAT Vocabularies for Everyone!: Not Too Scary Vocabulary!™ Second Edition (CD 1)
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Nasuko on March 3, 2009
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Not Too Scary Vocabulary!, sat vocabulary, renée mazer
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I got those vocabularies from Renée's listening SAT vocabulary booklet. If you want to study those words everyday and not forget about them, then fav my set! Also make comments in the discussion box!
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SAT Prep, The 1000 Most Common SAT Words, Y! Answers, Study Habbits
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78 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abash | embarrass |
| acquiesce | to comply or go along with |
| acrimonious | bitter; rancorous, caustic |
| acumen | accuracy along with good judgement |
| aesthete | lover of beauty |
| affinity | attraction to or feeling of kinship with |
| aghast | horrified |
| revelers | pleasure takers, people who are partying |
| aloof | having a distant or cold demeanor |
| altriusm | selfless generosity |
| ameliorate | to make better, improve |
| meliorate | to make better, improve (other word) |
| amiable | friendly |
| amicable | friendly (other word) |
| amity | peaceful relations |
| dilatory | tardy, procrastinating |
| carping | complaining |
| antipathy | strong feelings against |
| apathy | lack of feelings, disinterest |
| amoral | lacking morals |
| approbation | approval |
| arcane | known only to a few; mysterious |
| archaic | belonging to an earlier era, outdated |
| archetype | an original model or ideal example of a type |
| arduous | difficult |
| artful | deceitful |
| duplicitous | deceptive |
| crafty | devious |
| wily | cunning |
| artless | without cunning, guileless |
| artifice | deception, trickery, cunning, craft |
| ascend | to rise |
| astute | shrewd, having good judgement |
| sage | wise |
| omniscient | all knowing |
| savory | good tasting, appetizing |
| confection | a sweet such as candy |
| repute | a favorable reputation or just reputation |
| atrophy | withering or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| augment | to make larger or increase |
| addle | to become or make confused |
| austere | stern, severe and uncompromising or unadorned |
| averse | against, not inclined to do something |
| complacent | smug and satisfied with onself or ones achievements |
| avuncular | like an uncle; of or pertaining to an uncle |
| awry | wrong, askew, amiss |
| banal | completely ordinary, trite, drearily commonplace |
| bellicose | belligerent, warlike, pugnacious, a fighter |
| belligerent | combative |
| antebellum | before the Civil War |
| benefactor | charitable person |
| benevolent | kind |
| benign | gentle, not harmful |
| malevolent | malicious, evil |
| malignant | deadly or exhibiting great evil |
| blithe | happy and carefree or thoughtlessly indifferent |
| woe | deep sadness |
| bombast | pompous, grandiloquent writing or speech (noun) |
| bombastic | description for pompous, inflated writing or speech without a lot of substance |
| supercilious | arrogant, haughty and hateful |
| brawn | strong well formed muscles |
| brawny | having strong well formed muscles (adjective) |
| bucolic | rustic, pastoral and charming |
| cacophonous | having a harsh, unpleasant, bad sound; discordant |
| cackle | to talk or laugh in a shrill way; shrill laughter |
| cajole | to coax or wheedle |
| callous | insensitive, emotionally hardened, unfeeling |
| candid | frank, straightforward and honest |
| candor | honesty |
| savory | pleasing to the taste or smell |
| eloquence | polished, fluent and effective use of language |
| cantankerous | grumpy |
| capricious | whimsical, unpredictable and impulsive |
| harp | to dwell on something irritatingly and annoyingly; a type of musical instrument |
| catharsis | a purification or purging or release of the emotions |
| cathartic | something that causes a release of emotions (noun/adjective) |
| debonair | suave, urbane |
| lair | a den or resting place, especially for wild animals |
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