SAT Vocab List#1
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accolade | n. award of merit syn: adjudication, allotment ant: defrocking, debarring |
| ameliorate | v. improve; make more satisfactory syn: mitigate, convalesce ant: deteriorate, adulterate |
| audacious | adj. daring; bold syn: cheeky, undaunted ant: ambivalent, capricious |
| brevity | n. conciseness, briefness syn: ephemerality, impermanence ant: permanence, longevity |
| clemency | n. disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather syn: forbearance, indulgence ant: indifference, alienation |
| contentious | adj. quarrelsome syn: belligerent, petulant ant: incontrovertible, docile |
| cursory | adj. casual; hastily done syn: desultory, perfunctory ant: meticulous, fastidious |
| delineate | v. portray, depict sketch syn: pigeonhole, limn ant: affiliate, collaborator |
| deterrent | n. something that discourages; hindrance syn: bridle, shackle ant: catalyst, adjuvant |
| diminution | n. lessening; reduction in size syn-abatement, curtailment ant: augmentation, chrysalis |
| disputatious | adj. argymentative; fond of arguing syn: cantankerous, pugnacious ant: laudatory, approbative |
| dutiful | adj. respectful; obedient syn: docile, punctilious ant: bambooziem circumvent |
| enmity | n. ill will; hatred syn: acrimony, aimus ant: affinity, druthers |
| esoteric | adj. hard to understand; known only to the chosen few syn: abtruse, arcane ant: colloquial, bourgeois |
| flagrant | adj. conspicuosly wicked; blantant; outrageous syn: brazen, ostentanious ant: cache, ensconce |
| garrulous | adj. loquacious; wordy; talkative syn: verbose, glib ant: reticent, taciturn |
| gregarious | adj. sociable syn: convival, affable ant: introverted, reclusive |
| homogeneous | adj. of the same kind syn: akin, analogous ant: heterogenous, wavering |
| impudence | n. impertinence; insolence syn: chutzpah, brassiness ant: abasement, demureness |
| incontrovertible | adj. indisputable; not open to question syn: indibutable, irrefutable ant: controvertible, contingent |
| insolvent | adj. bankrupt; unable to repay one's debt syn:annihilate, eradicate ant: adhere, affix |
| intrinsic | adj. complex; knotty, tangled syn: congential, constitutive ant: extrinsic, extraneous |
| laconic | adj. brief and to the point syn: breviloquent, brusque ant: verbose, bombastic |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn syn: adamant, callous ant: submissive, amenable, docile |
| perfunctory | adj. superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm syn: lackadaisical, negligent ant: conscientious, assiduous |
| pomposity | n. self-important behavior; acting like a stuffed shirt syn- airs, ostentation ant- meekness, servility |
| prevalent | adj. widespread; generally accepted syn- rampant, ubiquitous ant: sequester, sunder |
| protract | v. prolong syn: elongate, loiter, linger ant: curtail, desist |
| recalcitrant | adj. obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly syn: indomitable, contumacious ant: docile, biddable |
| sequester | v. isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude syn: cloister, enisle ant: divulge, acquiesce |
| spurious | adj. false; counterfeit syn: apocryphal, pseudo ant: veritable, bona fide |
| subordinate | adj. occupying a lower rank; inferior; submissive syn: adjuvant, paltry ant: premier, arch |
| succint | adj. brief; terse; compace syn: breviloquent, pithy ant: ceremonious, verbose |
| tenacity | n. firmness; persistence syn: chutzpah, intransigence ant: ineptness, incoherence |
| torpor | n. legthargy; sluggishness; dormancy syn: stuper, languor ant: elation, industriousness |
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