SAT Class Vocab 3
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- Reprobate
- Person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
- Impassive
- Without feeling, not affected by pain
- Tawdry
- Cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
- Harrow
- To distress, create stress or torment
- Disingenuous
- Sophisticated, artful, trying to deceive, cunning
- Quiescent
- at rest, dormant, torpid
- Antipathy
- Aversion, dislike
- Ascetic
- Practicing self-denial, austere, stark
- Punctilious
- Precise, paying attenion to trivialties esp etiquette
- Pusilianimous
- Cowardly, craven
- Engender
- Cause, produce, give rise to
- Venal
- Corruptible, open to bribery
- Contentious
- Argumentative, pugnacious
- Tenuous
- Unsubstantial, flimsy, weak
- Doggerel
- Trivial, poorly constructed verse
- Broach
- Bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- Undulate
- to move in a wavelike fashion, fluctuate
- Penury
- Extreme poverty
- Effrontery
- Boldness, impudence, arrogance
- Precipitous
- Rash, foolhardy, dropping sharply, dangerous
- Misanthrope
- One who hates mankind
- Piquant
- Agreeably pungent, stimulating
- Striated
- Striped, grooved or banded
- Raffish
- Low, vulgar, base, tawdry
- Insouciant
- Unconcerned, carefree
- Gainsay
- Deny
- Prevaricate
- Stray from or avoid the truth; equivocate
- Guileless
- Without deceit, honest
- Fulminate
- Berate, vituperate, to explode
- Brook
- to tolerate, endure
- Bedizen
- to adorn, esp in a cheap, showy manner
- Irresolute
- Unresolved, indecisive
- Inchoate
- not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
- Minatory
- menacing, threatening
- Rapacious
- Voracious, greedy, plundering
- Philistine
- A smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge
- Abrogate
- Abolish or annul by authority; put down
- Denigrate
- Blacken, belittle, sully, defame
- Fecund
- Fertile
- Harangue
- A long, passionate speech
- Calumny
- Slander, aspersion
- Fulsome
- Disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness
- Volatile
- Changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable, explosive
- Consternation
- Sudden confusion or amazement
- Mendacity
- Dishonesty
- Conjoin
- To join together
- Ineluctable
- Certain, inevitable
- Alacrity
- Cheerful promptness