Final SAT Vocab Words
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- usury
- n.the practice lending money at an unlawful rate
- arrears
- n. a debt
- primogenture
- n. firstborn
- travail
- n. hard work,
- stint
- n. an allotted portion of work or a share of a task.
- respite
- n. a postponement, delay, or interval of rest.
- arduous
- adj. difficult, hard to achieve, or strenuous.
- interminable
- adj. lasting, endless
- inveterate
- adj. deep rooted or firmly established by long habit.
- extant
- adj. still in existence.
- repast
- n. a meal or food.
- tankard
- n. a tall, one-handed drinking vessel
- credence
- n. belief or acceptance; or trustworthiness or reliability.
- attest
- v. to declare as true
- palaver
- n. a conference, discussion, or conversation.
- despondent
- adj. utterly discouraged
- rue
- v. to feel regret.
- disconcert
- v. to confuse, disturb, frustrate, upset, or embarrass.
- agrarian
- adj. relating to agriculture or farmland.
- husbandry
- n. farming
- arable
- adj. suitable for plowing.
- grist
- n. grain that has been or is to be ground.
- repudiate
- v. to disown, renounce, or reject.
- chasten
- v. to punish in order to correct; or to subdue or restrain from excess.
- malediction
- n. a curse or a calling down of evil upon someone; or evil talk or slander.
- imprecation
- n. a curse or a plea, or a prayer for evil or misfortune.
- derogatory
- adj. belittling, disdainful, or tending to lessen in value.
- contrive
- v. to scheme or plan, to invent or design, to manage or do, or to bring about.
- ingratiate
- v. to bring oneself to another’s favor or good graces.
- assuage
- v. to pacify, calm or satisfy, or to make less severe.
- palliative
- . tending or serving to relieve or soothe.
- immure
- v. to imprison or confine, or to seclude or isolate oneself.
- adulterate
- v. to make impure or inferior by the addition of a substance of less value or by the removal of a valuable ingredient.
- upbraid
- v. to scold vehemently or criticize severely.
- recrimination
- – n. a countercharge or counteraccusation.
- gibe
- v. to taunt, mock, or tease sarcastically.
- raillery
- n. light and good natured teasing, ridicule, or satire.
- foible
- n. a minor weakness or harmless failing in character or behavior.
- parsimony
- n. excessive stinginess.
- effrontery
- n. shameless boldness, impudence, or forward behavior.
- temerity
- n. rashness or reckless boldness.
- avarice
- . excessive greed for wealth or possessions.
- rapacity
- n. excessive greed; or a disposition to seize and carry off.
- pander
- v. to supply material or opportunity for vices, or to act as a go-between in love intrigues.
- desecrate
- v. to profane, to treat irreverently, or to violate the sanctity of.
- unregenerate
- adj. wicked, sinful, or unrepentant.
- fetid
- adj. having a foul, offensive smell.
- invidious
- adj. giving offense or causing ill will or hatred.
- heinious
- . hateful, atrocious, or very wicked.
- pernicious
- adj. highly injurious, destructive, fatal, or deadly.
- smut
- n. dirt, matter that blackens or soils things, or obscenity
- dross
- n. any waste matter or refuge, or the scum coming to the top of liquid metal.
- offal
- n. garbage; or the inedible, discarded parts of a butchered