- acumen: accuracy, keenness
- adroit: dexterous, deft
- ameliorate: to improve
- apathetic: feeling little emotion
- arcane: known by only a few
- archaic: antiquated, old
- autonomy: independence
- belie: to misrepresent
- chicanery: trickery
- contiguous: sharing an edge or boundary
- cosmopolitan: worldly
- curative: able to heal or cure
- defunct: no longer existing or functioning
- deleterious: having a harmful effect
- derogatory: insulting
- didactic: instructive
- embellish: to decorate; exaggerate
- eradicate: to get rid of
- exorbitant: exceeding all bounds
- fabricate: to make up in order to deceive
- impetuous: impulsive and passionate
- mar: to damage
- multifarious: diverse, various
- orthodox: adhering to the traditional and established
- philanthropic: humanitarian
- proliferate: to grow or increase rapidly
- rudimentary: basic
- sporadic: occurring at irregular intervals
- therapeutic: having healing powers
- transient: passing quickly
- tumultuous: noisy, disorderly
- vex: to annoy
SAT 9