2007-2008 SAT words
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- Fastidious
- difficult to please
- Baneful
- poisonous harmful destructive.
- prudent
- cautious, sensible
- unyielding
- Stubborn; inflexible in attitude
- profuse
- pouring forth freely
- eclipse
- To make less important; surpass
- toady
- one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors
- facetious
- Amusing; not serious
- Pandemic
- widespread, general
- vituperate
- to berate
- Craven
- a coward
- Invidious
- hateful
- toothsome
- delicious; Agreeable; attractive
- extol
- to praise
- Prodigal
- reckless with money
- nepotism
- favortism
- flout
- To mock, to scoff
- beneficent
- pertaining to an act of kindness or charity.
- acclimate
- to become accustomed to a new climate, environment, or situation
- Enervating
- weakening or tiring
- Furlough
- a leaving or absence
- Prevaricate
- to lie
- kudos
- praise for an achievement
- Vim
- vitality and energy
- euphemism
- substituting a mild term for a harsh one
- crass
- crude, unrefined
- Rudimentary
- Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development
- abhorrent
- very regpugnant
- paltry
- pitifully small or worthless
- lassitude
- A tired feeling
- Gastronomy
- the art of preparing appetizing food
- fulsome
- offensively overdone or excessive
- egregious
- outrageously bad
- Conciliatory
- friendly, agreeable
- wield
- to exercise authority or influence effectively
- Abjure
- to denounce
- subterfuge
- a deceptive device; something used to hide or misrepresent the truth
- beholden
- obliged; bound in gratitude
- Implacable
- incapable of being appeased or mitigated
- ardent
- Full of passion and emotion
- unconscionable
- shockingly unfair or unjust; unscrupulous
- exacting
- requiring a great deal of care or effort
- Abase
- to humiliate, degrade
- sojourn
- to stay or dwell for a short period of time
- stint
- to be sparing or frugal; to restrict.
- lavish
- Abundant; in excess
- loquacious
- very talkative
- labyrinth
- A maze from which it is difficult to escape
- insensate
- lacking sensibility and understanding; foolish
- Imprecation
- a curse
- Extrapolation
- using data to make a prediction
- ameliorate
- to make better; to improve
- eschew
- to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)
- Ostentatious
- showy
- Apprise
- to inform
- bogy
- an evil or mischievous spirit
- sesquipedalian
- characterized by the use of long words with many syllables
- deleterious
- Harmful to one's health or welfare
- abstemious
- holding back from eating or drinking too much
- booboisie
- a class of people regarded as stupid and gullible
- Hoodwink
- to deceive
- polyglot
- containing or made up of several languages
- intimate
- to make known subtly; announce indirectly
- Collude
- to conspire
- disseminate
- to spread widely
- grandiloquence
- lofty, pompous language
- Forbearance
- patience
- aplomb
- great self-confidence; poise
- Exemplary
- an example to others
- Levity
- Lightheartedness or gaiety
- soporific
- causing sleep; tending to cause sleep
- heretical
- contrary to popular beliefs
- abet
- to promote
- amity
- friendship; good will
- vacillate
- to fluctuate
- anomaly
- deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form or rule
- Chide
- To scold or express disapproval
- recidivism
- a tendency to relapse into a previous behavior, especially criminal
- Affected
- phony, artificial
- veracity
- accuracy, truth or truthfullness
- abdicate
- to give up or renounce in a voluntary, formal or public manner
- grasp
- to percieve or understand
- Requite
- to return or repay
- Raconteur
- a storyteller
- insouciant
- unconcerned or indifferent; carefree; nonchalant
- quell
- to quiet or pacify
- bombastic
- pompous; arrogant
- nefarious
- infamous by way of being wicked or evil
- Precocious
- mentally advanced for one's current age
- Dither
- to move or act without purpose
- misanthropic
- disliking or mistrusting people or mankind in general
- forgo
- to do without
- untenable
- incapable of being defended; indefensible
- extroverted
- outgoing
- incredulous
- showing disbelief
- Pare
- to trim off excess
- Truncate
- to cut short to cut off
- reiterate
- to repeat
- malfeasance
- wrongdoing or misconduct, especially by a public official
- stupefy
- to astonish
- maladroit
- clumsy; awkward
- inflammable
- easily ignited
- arrogate
- to take without justification
- Mores
- fixed customs or manners
- quixotic
- : foolishly impractical; impulsive; unpredictable
- moribund
- on the point of dying
- nascent
- coming into existence; emerging
- clamor
- to loudly insist
- obsequious
- overly attentive; fawning
- Capricious
- changeable, fickle
- higgledy-piggledy
- in a jumbled, confused or disorderly manner
- perfidious
- deliberately faithless, treacherous; deceitful
- Paradigm
- an example that is a perfect pattern or model
- Impugn
- to challenge as false
- lugubrious
- mournful or gloomy in an exaggerated way
- dogmatic
- aggressively and arrogantly certain about unproved principals
- Cloying
- sickly sweet, excessive
- Discrepant
- opposite
- seraphic
- angelic; sweet
- Salutary
- beneficial
- cordial
- Warm and friendly; amiable
- lambaste
- to scold sharply; berate
- Copasetic
- fine, satisfactory
- dirge
- a mournful song
- masterpiece
- a superior production
- nettlesome
- causing irritation or stress
- Vicariously
- felt as if one were taking part in experience of another
- ascetic
- practicing restraint as a means of self-discipline
- Contrite
- deeply sorrowful or repentant
- rebuke
- to reprimand or scold
- Mollify
- To pacify or to make less severe
- autonomous
- independent
- artisan
- a person who is skilled with his or her hands
- yoke
- to link
- Aggregate
- a whole or total or to gather into a mass
- slovenly
- untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
- colloquial
- Pertaining to common everyday speech
- Ineffable
- incapable of being expressed
- acrimonious
- bitter and sharp in language or tone
- regale
- to amuse or entertain
- largess
- generous giving
- solicitous
- anxious or concerned; eager
- scrabble
- to scrape or scratch with the hands or feet
- astute
- sharp minded-clever
- encore
- the demand for a repeat performance
- surreptitiously
- secretly