SAT Selections Vocabulary
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- Engender
- cause to exist
- Vitiate
- make impure
- Pacify
- calm someone down
- Dearth
- lack
- Indolence
- lazy
- marred
- damaged or bruised
- Indolent
- lazy
- Supercilious
- haughty; habitually lazy
- Squander
- to spend wastefully or extravagantly
- Ardent
- passionate
- Beset
- to trouble persistently; harass
- Countenance
- appearance- especially the expression of the face; face
- Cursory
- performed with haste and scant attention to detail
- Charisma
- magical attractiveness; rare personal quality
- Demagogue
- a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions an dprejudices of the populace; rabble-rousing leader
- Placate
- pacify
- Indigenous
- native
- Labyrinth
- maze
- Exacerbate
- make worse
- Incense
- make very angry
- Daunt
- make fearful; discourage
- Rudimentary
- basic
- Credulous
- eager to believe; gullible; disposed to believe too readily
- Lucid
- easy to understand; intelligible; easily understood
- Sacrosanct
- sacred
- Docile
- easily taught; teachable; read and willing to be taught
- Impartial
- fair (neutral); not partial or biased; unprejudiced; not on one's side
- Precedent
- an act of instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances; earlier example
- Figurative
- based on figures of speech; metaphorical
- Reiterate
- say again; repeat
- Prudent
- careful; provident; careful in regard to one's own interest
- Negligence
- carelessness
- Innocuous
- harmless
- Lax
- Careless; not diligent
- Precipitate
- cause to happen abruptly
- Equivocate
- say confusing things
- Assiduous
- hard working; diligent
- Aptitute
- a talent
- Circumspect
- cautious
- Metamorphosis
- magical change in form
- Substantive
- real; actual
- Nepotism
- favoritism
- Solicitous
- eager and attentive
- Inclement
- bad, as in weather; stormy; unmerciful
- Obscure
- hard to understand; ambiguous or vague
- Jeopardy
- danger
- Nebulous
- vague; lacking definite form or limits
- Diverse
- varied
- Stratum
- layer
- Anarchy
- lawlessness
- Acrimonious
- harsh; bitter, sharp, ill-natured animosity, especially as it is exhibited in speech or behavior
- Abstruse
- hard to understand
- Elusive
- difficult to define or describe
- Taciturn
- naturally untalkative
- Ephemeral
- lasting for a very short time
- Quantitative
- having to do with quantity
- Relegate
- banish; to send to a place of exile
- Conciliatory
- making peace; reconcile
- Concurrent
- happening at the same time
- Complicity
- participation in wrongdoing
- Lampoon
- a broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to attack a person, a group, or an institution; satirize
- Reparation
- paying back
- Parochial
- narrow in point of views
- Monolithic
- massive and unyielding; something suggestive of a large block of stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or uniformity
- Patriarch
- male head of the family
- Sensory
- having to do with senses
- Qualitative
- having to do with quality
- Misanthropic
- hating mankind
- Felicity
- happiness
- Obsequious
- fawning; to show affection
- Equitable
- fair; just and impartial
- Expropriate
- take property officially
- Noxious
- harmful
- Chivalrous
- demonstrating the qualities idealized by knighthood, bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women
- Apathy
- lack of interest or concern
- Cacophony
- harsh mixture of sounds
- Exalt
- to glorify, praise, or honor
- Poignant
- distressing to the mind or feeling; painfully emotional
- Predilection
- an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something
- Propensity
- a tendency
- Sloth
- laziness
- Existential
- having to do with existence
- Auspicious
- favorable
- Heterogeneous
- varied
- Fickle
- unpredictable
- Indiscreet
- lacking discretion (the ability to make responsible decisions)
- Constitute
- make up
- Ameliorate
- improve
- Consonate
- harmonious
- Concord
- harmony
- Deleterious
- harmful
- Peripatetic
- wandering
- Loquacious
- talkative
- Propitious
- auspicious; marked by favorable signs; presenting favorable circumstances
- Vestige
- last trace of something that once existed
- Notorious
- famous for something bad
- Polarize
- to break up into opposing factions or groupings
- Implement
- carry out; to put into practical effect
- Viable
- capable of living under favorable conditions
- Arbitrary
- random
- Endemic
- native
- Vacuous
- lacking intelligence
- Provincial
- narrow in outlook; limited in perspective
- Chasm
- gaping hole; an abyss
- Contrived
- labored
- Consecrate
- make sacred
- Paternal
- fatherly
- Inherent
- involved in the constitution or essential character of something
- Gesticulate
- make gestures while speaking as for emphasis
- Insatiable
- impossible to satisfy
- Blithe
- carefree
- Belittle
- make to seem little
- Coherent
- making sense
- Vitriolic
- bitterly scathing (to do harm with); caustic (causing to destroy)
- Apartheid
- racial oppression
- Corollary
- natural consequence; a result
- Parody
- satirical imitation; a literary or artistic work that imitates the style of an author or a work for comic effect
- Idyllic
- naturally peaceful
- Ponderous
- massive and clumsy; lacking grace or fluency
- Wanton
- malicious; unjust
- Secular
- having nothing to do with religion
- Recondite
- hard to understand
- Inveterate
- habitual
- Malleable
- easy to shape or being formed
- Martial
- warlike; relating to war
- Virtuoso
- masterful musician
- Copious
- abundant
- Patent
- obvious
- Conspicious
- obvious
- Amenable
- obedient
- Ambulatory
- able to move or walk around
- Forsake
- abandon
- Hindrance
- an obstruct or delay to progress
- Farcical
- absurd
- Elliptical
- obscure
- Prolific
- producing abundant works or results
- Assimilate
- absorb
- Celibacy
- abstinence from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows
- Palpable
- obvious
- Grandiose
- absurdly exaggerated
- Despot
- a ruler with absolute power
- Reverberate
- echo
- Rogue
- scoundrel or rascal
- Pathology
- science of diseases
- Frugal
- economical
- Autonomous
- independent
- Machination
- scheming evil activity