Quizlet Nella's SAT words

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  1. accolade: award of merit
  2. adulation: flattery; admiration
  3. adversity: poverty; misfortune
  4. ascendency: controlling influence; domination
  5. ascetic: practicing self-denial; austere
  6. austere: forbiddingly stern; severely simple
  7. belie: contradict; give a false impression
  8. coercion: use of force to get someone to obey
  9. conciliatory: reconciling; soothing
  10. condone: overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
  11. corroborate: confirm; support
  12. credulity: belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté
  13. cursory: casual; hastily done
  14. delineate: portray
  15. despondent: depressed; gloomy
  16. disseminate: distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
  17. duplicity: double-dealing; hypocrisy
  18. emulate: imitate; rival
  19. ephemeral: short-lived; fleeting
  20. equivocal: ambiguous; intentionally misleading
  21. erudite: learned; scholarly
  22. esoteric: hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
  23. exonerate: acquit; exculpate
  24. expedient: suitable; practical; politic
  25. extol: praise; glorify
  26. extricate: free; disentangle
  27. frugality: thrift; economy
  28. furtive: stealthy; sneaky
  29. garrulous: loquacious; wordy; talkative
  30. gregarious: sociable
  31. guile: deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning
  32. hedonist: one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
  33. inane: silly; senseless
  34. incite: arouse to action
  35. incorrigible: not correctable
  36. innocuous: harmless
  37. insipid: lacking in flavor; dull
  38. inundate: overwhelm; flood; submerge
  39. laud: praise
  40. levity: lack of seriouness; lightness
  41. listless: lacking in spirit or energy
  42. mitigate: appease; moderate
  43. opulence: extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
  44. ostentatious: showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
  45. partisan: one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
  46. placate: pacify; conciliate
  47. prodigal: wasteful; reckless with money
  48. profusion: overabundance; lavish expenditure
  49. reprove: censure; rebuke
  50. repudiate: disown; disavow
  51. reticence: reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence
  52. servile: slavish; cringing
  53. succinct: brief; terse; compact
  54. surreptitious: secret; furtive; sneaky
  55. sycophant: servile flatterer
  56. taciturn: habitually silent
  57. usurp: seize another's power of rank
  58. vacillate: waver; fluctuate
  59. venerate: revere
  60. vilify: slander