SAT 2005 Vocab
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- Intrepid
- Valiant and brave.
- Impecunious
- Impoverished or poor.
- Tirade
- Bitter, condemnatory speech.
- Entrepreneur
- Organizer of speech.
- Anathema
- A curse.
- Ruse
- Trick or stratagem.
- Sidereal
- Pertaining to the stars.
- Descry
- To make out or see something that is distant.
- Innocuous
- Harmless.
- Callow
- An immature person.
- consummate
- to complete or realize
- sanction
- authoritative permission, support, or penalty
- exorbitant
- exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness
- cogent
- convincing
- veritable
- real or genuine
- trepidation
- a state of alarm or dread
- vivacity
- liveliness
- specious
- deceptively attractive
- imperative
- authority to command or impossible to evade
- paramount
- of chief concern or importance
- fallacious
- deceptive
- sacrosanct
- sacred and inviolable
- camaraderie
- comradeship
- culmination
- climax
- perjure
- to breach an oath or promise
- clandestine
- kept or done in secret
- impudent
- insolent or offensively bold
- asinine
- utterly stupid or silly
- foolhardy
- unwisely bold or venturesome
- ensconced
- to place or conceal in a secure place
- castigated
- to inflict severe punishment on
- idiosyncratic
- a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group
- excoriate
- to censure strongly
- obfuscate
- to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand
- subjugate
- to conquer
- prepossessing
- serving to impress favorably in advance
- didacticism
- inclined to teach or moralize excessively
- despondent
- dejected
- inculpable
- free of guilt
- sardonic
- scornfully or cynically mocking
- forgoing
- to abstain from
- eschew
- to avoid
- acclimate
- to become accustomed to a new environment or situation
- innundation
- an overwhelming number or amount
- surfeit
- to overindulge
- dearth
- a shortage
- laud
- praise
- rife
- abundant or numerous
- cogitate
- ponder
- pervasive
- having the tendency to pervade or permeate
- tenable
- rationally defensible
- engender
- to bring into existence
- congested
- to overfill or overcrowd
- mollifying
- to calm in temper or feeling
- rudimentary
- elementary
- enumerate
- to count
- eclectic
- made up of or combining elements from a variety of sources
- gregarious
- sociable
- tabulate
- to condense and list
- debunk
- to expose or ridicule the falseness
- bellicose
- aggressive
- penurious
- unwilling to spend money
- profligate
- recklessly wasteful
- beguiling
- to divert
- abet
- to approve
- frivolous
- insignificant
- indigenous
- originating and occurring naturally in an area or environment
- denigrate
- to attack the character or reputation of
- elegy
- poem or song of lamentation
- elucidate
- to explain or enlighten
- emend
- to correct
- faze
- to dismay
- felicity
- happiness
- fallible
- liable to err
- farce
- broad comedy
- foible
- weakness
- forgo
- to do without
- forswear
- to renounce or abandon
- gouge
- to tear out
- guile
- deceit
- hackneyed
- commonplace (adj)
- harbor (v)
- to provide refugee for
- headlong
- hasty or rash
- hedonist
- one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
- hoodwink
- to deceive
- histrionic
- theatrical
- hyperbole
- overstatement
- iconoclastic
- attacking cherished traditions
- ignominy
- deep disgrace
- illicit
- illegal
- illusory
- deceptive
- impeccable
- faultless
- impel
- to drive onward
- impetuous
- rash
- impiety
- lack of respect
- impetus
- incentive
- witticism
- witty saying
- zenith
- point directly overhead in the sky, summit
- zephyr
- gentle breeze. west wind
- yoke
- to join together
- withhold
- to refuse to give
- whimsical
- capricious and unpredictable
- whet
- to sharpen
- wheedle
- to coax, decieve by flattery
- waylay
- to ambush
- warble
- to sing, babble
- wallow
- to roll in or indulge in
- waive
- to give up temporarily
- voracious
- ravenous
- voluminous
- bulky, large
- voluable
- talkative
- volatile
- explosive, unpredictable
- vituperative
- abusive, scolding
- vitriolic
- corrosive, sarcastic
- visceral
- felt in one's inner organs
- virulent
- hostile
- virile
- manly
- vie
- to contend, compete
- vicarious
- acting as a substitute
- venerate
- to revere or respect
- veracity
- truthfulness
- verbiage
- arrogant array of words
- verdant
- green, lush in vegetatiion
- verity
- quality of being true
- vestige
- remains, entrails
- viable
- practical, workable
- vantage
- position of advantage
- valedictory
- pertaining to farewell
- vacillate
- to waver, fluctuate
- upshot
- outcome
- unwarranted
- unjustified
- unstinting
- not holding back
- unrequited
- not reciprocated
- unpalatable
- disagreeable, distasteful
- unprecedented
- unparalleled
- unobstrusive
- inconspicuous
- unkempt
- disheveled, visually messy
- ungainly
- awkward, clumsy
- unfetter
- to liberate
- underlying
- fundamental
- ulterior
- situated beyond
- tyro
- novice
- tycoon
- wealthy leader
- turpitude
- depravity
- turgid
- swollen, distended
- tryst
- meeting
- truncate
- to cut the top off
- truism
- self-evident truth
- truculence
- aggressiveness, ferocity
- trite
- hackeneyed, commonplace
- trenchant
- cutting, keen
- treatise
- article treating a subject systematically
- treacly
- sticky and sweet
- transmute
- to change or convert
- transient
- momentary, temporary, fleeting
- transgression
- violation of law, sin
- transcribe
- to copy
- transcendent
- superior
- trajectory
- the path taken by a projectile
- traduce
- to expose to slander
- tractable
- changeable, manageable
- tout
- to publicize
- torrid
- passionate, hot
- timorous
- fearful
- throng
- crowd
- thespian
- pertaining to drama
- terse
- concise, abrupt
- terminus
- last stop of railroad
- tepid
- lukewarm
- tentative
- willing to try
- tendentious
- having an objective, biased
- tenporize
- to slack off or buy time
- temperament
- disposition, emotional excess
- temerity
- boldness, rashness
- tawdry
- cheap but gaudy
- tautology
- unnecessary repetition
- taut
- tight, ready
- tarry
- to delay
- tantamount
- equivalent in effect or value
- tanner
- a person who turns animal hides into leather
- tangential
- peripheral, only slightly connected, digressing
- tactile
- pertaining to the organs or sense of touch
- taciturn
- habitually silent
- table (v)
- to set aside a resolution for future consideration
- synoptic
- summarizing
- symbiosis
- interdependent, mutually beneficial and necessary
- sycophant
- servile flatterer
- sybarite
- lover of luxury
- swill
- to drink greedily
- swelter
- to be oppresed by heat
- swathe
- to wrap around, bandage
- swarthy
- dark and dusky
- suture
- stiches swen to hold wounds
- susceptible
- vulnerable to, easily influenced
- surreptitious
- secret, sneaky, hidden
- surmount
- to overcome
- surmise
- to guess
- surly
- rude, cross
- supposition
- hypothesis
- supplicate
- to pray for a favor
- supple
- flexible, pliant
- supplant
- to replace or usurp
- supersede
- to cause to be set aside, make obsolete
- superimpose
- place over something else
- superficial
- travial, shallow
- sunder
- to separate or part
- summation
- summary
- sultry
- hot
- sully
- to tarnish or soil
- suffragist
- advocate of voting rights
- succor
- to aid or comfort
- succinct
- brief, terse
- subversive
- tending to overthrow, destructive
- subterfuge
- retense, evasion
- substantive
- essential, pertaining to substance
- substantiate
- to establish by evidence, verify
- subsistence
- existence, means of support
- subsidy
- direct financial aid by government
- subsidiary
- secondary
- subside
- to settle down or grow quiet
- subservient
- behaving like a slave
- suborn
- to persuade to act unlawfully
- subordinate
- occupying a lower rank, inferior
- subliminal
- below the threshold
- sublime
- exalted or noble, utter
- subjective
- unreal
- subdued
- less intense, quieted
- suavity
- urbanity, finesse
- stymie
- to present an obstacle, to attempt to stop
- stupefy
- to stun or amaze
- stultify
- to frustrate or hinder
- strut (n)
- supporting bar
- stringent
- rigid
- strident
- loud and harsh
- stricture
- restriction, criticism
- striated
- marked with parallel bands, grooved
- strew
- to spread around randomly or scatter
- stratify
- to divide into classes
- strategem
- deceptive scheme
- stolid
- dull, impassive
- stoke
- to feed a fire
- stoic
- impassive
- stodgy
- stuffy, boringly conservative
- stipulate
- to specify
- stipend
- a pay for services
- stint
- to be thrify and set limits
- stilted
- inflated
- stem (v)
- to stop