SAT Vocab from CB/PR/Barrons
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- squander
- spend wastefully
- flag
- to lose energy
- expeditious
- done efficiently
- hubris
- arrogance
- rambunctious
- violent
- extant
- in existence
- punctilious
- scrupulous
- myopia
- nearsightedness
- rancor
- bitter
- officious
- eager to help
- placid
- complacent
- dilatory
- delaying
- peevish
- fractious
- despoil
- to plunder
- presumption
- offensive attitude
- amalgam
- a mix
- induct
- to introduce
- occlude
- obstruct
- ebullient
- enthusiastic
- quizzical
- questioning
- irate
- enraged
- modicum
- small amount
- phlegmatic
- unemotional
- penurious
- stingy
- flabbergasted
- astounded
- miffed
- bad-tempered mood
- jaded
- worn out
- humdrum
- dull
- recriminate
- to accuse in return
- exasperation
- annoyance
- kitsch
- bad taste
- munificent
- generous
- efficacy
- effectiveness
- pernicious
- deadly
- unstudied
- natural
- consternation
- fear produced by danger
- insinuate
- to introduce subtly
- demean
- to humble
- bombastic
- ostentatious
- cantankerous
- quarrelsome
- superfluity
- overabundance
- uncanny
- eerie
- veneer
- superficial show
- frill
- a luxury
- boisterous
- loud, noisy
- dispassionate
- calm; impartial
- dissipate
- waste; scatter
- deprecate
- protest against
- ascendancy
- controlling influence
- ebb
- lessen
- despondent
- depressed
- episodic
- loosely connected
- erudite
- scholarly
- apocryphal
- untrue
- caricature
- misrepresentation
- decorum
- appropriateness of behavior
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking
- charlatan
- pretender to knowledge
- clemency
- lenient; mildness
- delineate
- depict
- dogmatic
- opinionated; arbitrary
- contagion
- infection
- credulity
- gullibility
- eclectic
- from variety of sources
- elated
- overjoyed
- detrimental
- harmful
- effervescent
- excited
- disinterested
- unprejudiced
- altruistic
- concerned for others
- didactic
- instructional
- epicure
- connoisseur of food and drink
- discursive
- digressing; rambling
- depravity
- corruption
- banal
- commonplace; trite
- bequeath
- hand down
- bland
- mild; dull
- abrasive
- rubbing away
- assuage
- satisfy; soothe
- aberrant
- abnormal
- cajole
- coax
- obnoxious
- offensive
- prevaricate
- to stray from truth
- epigram
- a witty saying
- provincial
- relating to a province; not sophisticated
- verdant
- naive
- bereaved
- sorrowful through loss
- dilettante
- amateurish
- virile
- masculine
- inveigle
- to win over by coaxing
- stilted
- artifically formal
- esoteric
- hard to understand
- espouse
- adopt; support
- ethereal
- heavenly
- evanescent
- fleeting; vanishing
- exacting
- extremely demanding
- exhaustive
- thorough; comprehensive
- expedient
- practical
- expedite
- hasten
- expository
- explanatory
- fastidious
- difficult to please
- fickle
- changeable; faithless
- flagrant
- blatant
- flippant
- lacking seriousness
- foolhardy
- rash
- forsake
- abandon; renounce
- forthright
- outspoken; frank
- fortuitous
- by chance
- expunge
- to erase
- anomalous
- abnormal
- acerbic
- harsh
- insipid
- dull
- vitriolic
- caustic
- profligate
- extravagant
- iconoclastic
- attacking conventions
- trepidation
- apprehension
- frivolous
- trivial
- imperturbable
- calm
- sardonic
- mocking
- hermetic
- completely sealed
- redolent
- suggestive; reminiscent (eg smell)
- trenchant
- effective, incisive
- hedonistic
- devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
- reticent
- reserved
- exhibitionistic
- behaving in ways intended to attract attention
- pedantry
- slavish attention to details
- whimsy
- odd; funny
- bravado
- pretentious display of courage
- humility
- humble
- effrontery
- boldness
- premeditated
- planned in advance
- derogate
- to belittle
- conflated
- joined
- confer
- to give
- relegate
- to assign something insignificant
- remuneration
- payment; reward
- tawdry
- cheap
- belated
- delayed
- perspicacious
- keen; acute
- scintillating
- lively; witty
- squalid
- dirty; neglected
- sophomoric
- immature; poorly informed
- cloying
- too sweet/sentimental
- posthumous
- occuring after death
- fulsome
- excessive
- gratuitous
- unearned
- prescience
- foresight
- mendacity
- untruthfulness
- induction
- derived from fact
- bombast
- pompous writing
- empirical
- from experience
- inchoate
- early stage
- lugubrious
- mournful
- dirge
- song of grief
- salient
- prominent
- reactionary
- against progess/liberalism
- bungler
- clumsy person
- disseminated
- spread out
- precipitous
- extremely steep
- retrograde
- moving backward
- derisive
- mocking
- gibe
- mocking remark
- gaffe
- blunder
- tryst
- romantic meeting
- ramshackle
- carelessly constructed
- finesse
- handle with skill
- comportment
- behavior
- annotate
- to explain with notes
- vindicate
- defend/provide justification
- recourse
- source of help
- bromide
- trite statement/idea
- reckoning
- settling of accounts
- forbearance
- act of patience
- imbued
- influenced
- consort
- associate
- morose
- depressed
- vagary
- unpredictable behavior
- flamboyance
- elaborate
- eventuality
- possibility