SAT Vocabulary List

Mary Lourdes H.
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  1. abase
    cause to feel shame
  2. blasphemy
    profane language
  3. conspicuous
    obvious to the eye or mind
  4. debilitate
    make weak
  5. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  6. embryonic
    of an organism prior to birth or hatching
  7. gainsay
    take exception to
  8. innate
    present at birth but not necessarily hereditary
  9. innovate
    bring something new to an environment
  10. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  11. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  12. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
  13. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  14. repress
    conceal or hide
  15. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  16. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  17. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  18. blighted
    affected by something that prevents growth or prosperity
  19. copious
    large in number or quantity
  20. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  21. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  22. engender
    call forth
  23. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
  24. lax
    without rigor or strictness
  25. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  26. noxious
    injurious to physical or mental health
  27. orthography
    representing the sounds of a language by written symbols
  28. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
  29. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  30. rescind
    cancel officially
  31. spurious
    plausible but false
  32. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  33. accolade
    a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
  34. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  35. bowdlerize
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
  36. cordial
    politely warm and friendly
  37. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  38. elusive
    skillful at evading capture
  39. froward
    habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  40. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
  41. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  42. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  43. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  44. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  45. raze
    tear down so as to make flat with the ground
  46. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  47. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  48. valor
    courage when facing danger
  49. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  50. adversary
    someone who offers opposition
  51. brevity
    the attribute of being short or fleeting
  52. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  53. disperse
    move away from each other
  54. disputatious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  55. grave
    a place for the burial of a corpse
  56. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  57. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  58. listless
    lacking zest or vivacity
  59. nomenclature
    a system of words used to name things in a discipline
  60. picaresque
    (of fiction) involving clever rogues or adventurers
  61. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  62. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  63. tectonic
    pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
  64. undermine
    weaken or impair, especially gradually
  65. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  66. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  67. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  68. corpulent
    excessively large
  69. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  70. endorse
    approve of
  71. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  72. laud
    praise, glorify, or honor
  73. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  74. notorious
    known widely and usually unfavorably
  75. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  76. plethora
    extreme excess
  77. respite
    a pause from doing something
  78. static
    not in physical motion
  79. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  80. uncouth
    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Created on 十月 14, 2010 (updated 一月 14, 2011)

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