SAT Vocab 5
Terms
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- consequence
- result, outcome
- audible
- capable of being heard [audio means sound, so it's like audio + able]
- fitful
- irregular; inconsistent
- tangible
- real, capable of being touched
- strident
- loud, harsh-sounding [NOT RELATED TO STRIDE!]
- irascible
- short-tempered, irritable [irascible, irritable, and irate all come from the Latin rood meaning angry] (syn: petulant)
- civil
- polite, courteous (ant: surly, brusque)
- mundane
- ordinary; commonplace
- uniform
- identical, similar [a solder wears a uniform so that they look similar]
- emaciated
- starved; extremely ill
- instigate
- to provoke to action (ant: dissuade)
- antagonistic
- hostile, conflicting (syn: cantankerous, pugnacious; ant: pacifistic, amicable, affable, cordial)
- mollify
- to calm, comfort (syn: appease, placate, conciliate)
- opaque
- impenetrable by light
- penchant
- liking (syn: inclination, proclivity, predilection; ant: aversion)
- debase
- to reduce in quality or value
- preclude
- to make impossible, prevent
- skeptical
- doubtful
- exasperate
- to anger or irritate (syn: pique, vex; ant: assuage, appease, mollify, placate, conciliate)
- banal
- unoriginal, stale [NOT RELATED TO BANE] (syn: hackneyed; ant: innovative)
- stagnate
- to lie motionless
- dispassionate
- calm [like not+pssionate. keep in mind that passion can mean any kind of strong emotion not just lust]
- brusque
- rudely brief (syn: surly; ant: civil)
- invective
- an insulting or abusive expression (ant: commendation, accolade, eulogy)
- morose
- sad, sorrowful (syn: melancholy, despondent; ant: buoyant, jocular, effervescent)
- placate
- to clam the anger of (syn: appease, mollilfy, conciliate)
- dissonance
- disagreement; lack of harmony [like dis+sound. when two things do not sound good together] (syn: discord)
- surreptitious
- done secretly, sneaky (syn: furtive)
- relevant
- related to the matter at hand (ant: extraneous, extrinsic)
- unprecedented
- never before known or experienced [if an event is unprecedented, nothing like it has ever preceded(or happened before) it]
- willful
- stubborn (syn: intractable, recalcitrant
- kindle
- to excite, stir up
- plagiarism
- the theft of someone else's ideas
- torpor
- inactivity
- hackneyed
- overused, stale (syn: banal; ant: innovative)
- loathe
- to hate, scorn (syn: deplore)
- aversion
- dislike (ant: inclination, proclivity, predilection, penchant)
- confound
- to confuse [sounds like confuse]
- rancor
- resentment, hostility, spite (syn:antagonism, enmity; ant: camaraderie, amity)
- distend
- to expand, extend [sounds like extend] (ant: contract)
- accessible
- easy to reach or understand
- predilection
- preference, liking (syn: inclination, proclivity, penchant; ant: aversion)
- erudite
- highly educated
- score
- the written form of a piece of music
- conviction
- a firm belief
- saccharine
- overly sweet or agreeable [ounce for ounce, the artificial sweetener saccharin is 500 times sweeter than sugar, so something which is saccharine is too sweet]
- circumspection
- caution [to circumspect is to inspect the matter all around]
- bolster
- to support, prop up (syn: buttress; ant: undermine)
- bungler
- a clumsy person
- surly
- rude, unpleasant (syn: brusque; ant: civil)