220018357 | avarice | greed (noun) | |
220018359 | axiom | a self-evident truth that requires no proof (noun) | |
220018361 | baleful | full of menacing influences, pernicious (adj) | |
220018363 | banal | devoid of freshness or originality, trite (adj) | |
220018365 | bastion | a well-fortified place (noun) | |
220018367 | belabor | to explain, work at, or hit longer than is necessary (verb) | |
220018369 | beleaguer | to surround with military forces (verb) | |
220018371 | belie | to show to be false, to contradict, to misrepresent (verb) | |
220018373 | bellicose | inclined to fight, aggressively hostile (adj) | |
220018375 | belligerent | warlike (adj) | |
220018377 | benighted | intellectually or morally ignorant, overtaken by darkness or night (adj) | |
220018379 | bequeath | to pass something down by way of a will (verb) | |
220018381 | beseech | to implore urgently, to beg (verb) | |
220018383 | bilk | to defraud, to cheat (verb), a cheat or a swindler (noun) | |
220018385 | blandish | to coax or cajole by gentle flattery (verb) | |
220018387 | blight | the cause of impairment, ruin, destruction or frustration, or the state of being so (noun) | |
220018389 | bonhomie | frank and simple good-natured manner, gentility (noun) | |
220018391 | boon | something to be thankful for, a blessing (noun) | |
220018393 | bourgeois | the middle class and associated values of money-motivated actions (noun), relating to such (adj) | |
220018395 | breach | to break or rupture (verb) a break or a rupture (noun) | |
220018397 | brigand | a bandit of the mountains or forests (noun) | |
220018399 | brusque | abrupt in manner, curt, rough (adj) | |
220018401 | burgeon | to grow or develop quickly, to flourish (verb) | |
220018403 | buttress | a prop or support (noun), the action of supporting or propping (verb) | |
220018405 | cadence | rhythmic flow of words that sounds pleasing to the ear (noun) | |
220018407 | cajole | to persuade by flattery, to wheedle or coax (verb) | |
220018409 | callow | immature or inexperienced (adj) | |
220018411 | capacious | spacious (adj) | |
220018413 | capitulate | to give up resistance, to surrender (verb) | |
220018415 | capricious | given to quick changes in mood or opinion (adj) | |
220018417 | castigate | to criticize or reprimand severely (verb) | |
220018419 | catharsis | the purging of emotional tensions through art, especially through tragedy (noun) | |
220018421 | catholic | universal, or related to the Catholic Church (adj) | |
220018423 | cavalier | knight (noun), offhanded, unceremonious, haughty (adj) | |
220018425 | centripetal | directed towards the center (adj) | |
220018427 | chagrin | a feeling of vexation because of disappointed expectations (noun), to feel so (verb) | |
220018429 | charlatan | a fake, a quack, a person who claims to know more than they do (noun) | |
220018431 | chicanery | trickery or deception by sophistry (noun) | |
220018433 | choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered (adj) | |
220018435 | circumlocution | an indirect way of speaking, going around the point (noun) |
SAT words 10/28- AP Lit
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