SAT words Flashcards

225972751	aberrant	one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group	0
225972752	abscond	To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.	1
225972753	adulterate	corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance	2
225972754	aggrandize	to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater	3
225972755	ameliorate	to make better	4
225972756	anachronism	something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred	5
225972757	anomalous	deviating from the general or common order or type	6
225972758	antipathy	the object of a feeling of intense aversion (opposition, dislike)	7
225972759	ascetic	practices self denial as spiritual discipline	8
225972760	assuage	to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench	9
225972761	audacious	Bold, adventurous, recklessly daring	10
225972762	aver	to affirm, declare confidently	11
225972763	banal	obvious and dull	12
225972764	burgeon	grow and flourish	13
225972765	buttress	make stronger or defensible	14
225972766	commensurate	corresponding in size or degree or extent	15
225972767	complaisance	a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others	16
225972768	corroborate	establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts	17
225972769	culpability	a state of guilt	18
225972770	decimate	kill in large numbers	19
225972771	defer	submit or yield to another's wish or opinion	20
225972772	desiccate	remove water from	21
225972773	diatribe	thunderous verbal attack	22
225972774	diffident	lacking self-confidence	23
225972775	diffuse	cause to become widely known	24
225972776	digress	lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking	25
225972777	disabuse	free somebody (from an erroneous belief)	26
225972778	discrete	constituting a separate entity or part	27
225972779	disinterest	tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement	28
225972780	dissemble	make believe with the intent to deceive	29
225972781	dogma	a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative	30
225972782	efficacy	capacity or power to produce a desired effect	31
225972783	embellish	make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.	32
225972784	equivocate	be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information	33
225972785	emulate	compete with successfully	34
225972786	endemic	native to or confined to a certain region	35
225972787	enervate	weaken mentally or morally	36
225972788	engender	to cause, to produce, to create	37
225972789	enigma	something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained	38
225972790	ephemeral	enduring a very short time	39
225972791	erudite	having or showing profound knowledge	40
225972792	espouse	take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own	41
225972793	eulogy	a formal expression of praise	42
225972794	fawn	a color varying around light grayish brown	43
225972795	feigned	not genuine	44
225972796	florid	elaborately or excessively ornamented	45
225972797	foster	help develop, help grow	46
225972798	garrulous	full of trivial conversation	47
225972799	guile	shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception	48
225972800	harangue	a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion	49
225972801	heresy	a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion	50
225972802	hieroglyph	a writing system using picture symbols	51
225972803	homogeneous	all of the same or similar kind or nature	52
225972804	iconoclast	someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions	53
225972805	impervious	not admitting of passage or capable of being affected	54
225972806	implacable	unable to be calmed down or made peaceful	55
225972807	inchoate	only partly in existence	56
225972808	insipid	not pleasing to the sense of taste	57
225972809	irascible	characterized by anger	58
225972810	laconic	brief and to the point	59
225972811	latency	the state of being not yet evident or active	60
225972812	laudable	worthy of high praise	61
225972813	loquacity	the quality of being wordy and talkative	62
225972814	lucid	capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner	63
225972815	magnanimity	liberality in bestowing gifts	64
225972816	malevolent	wishing or appearing to wish evil to others	65
225972817	misanthrope	someone who dislikes people in general	66
225972818	miser	a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)	67
225972819	mitigate	make less severe or harsh	68
225972820	mollify	make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else	69
225972821	mundane	belonging to this earth or world	70
225972822	obdurate	showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings	71
225972823	obviate	prevent the occurrence of	72
225972824	occlude	block passage through	73
225972825	pedant	a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit	74
225972826	perennial	recurring again and again	75
225972827	placate	cause to be more favorably inclined	76
225972828	pragmatic	guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory	77
225972829	precarious	affording no ease or reassurance	78
225972830	precipitate	bring about abruptly	79
225972831	precursor	an indication of the approach of something or someone	80
225972832	prevaricate	to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead	81
225972833	probity	complete and confirmed integrity	82
225972834	profundity	intellectual depth	83
225972835	propensity	a natural inclination	84
225972836	propitiate	make peace with	85
225972837	proximity	the property of being close together	86
225972838	prudent	showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving silence	87
225972839	quiescence	quiet and inactive restfulness	88
225972840	rarefy	make more subtle or refined	89
225972841	repudiate	refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid	90
225972842	sanction	official permission or approval	91
225972843	specious	plausible but false	92
225972844	succinct	briefly giving the gist of something	93
225972845	tractable	readily reacting to suggestions and influences	94
225972846	turpitude	a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice	95
225972847	unfettered	not bound by shackles and chains	96
225972848	venerate	regard with feelings of respect and reverence	97
225972849	vindictive	disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge	98
225972850	wheedle	influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering	99