SAT Vocab for Dummies
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- nescient
- He is omniscient, not nescient.
- pandiculate
- yawn
- declaim
- In cheesy movies, and soaps, the actors declaim, rather than speak.
- matutinal
- the matutinal bird gets the worm.
- cavalier
- come rescue me, my cavalier in resplendent carapace.
- resplendent
- come rescue me, my cavalier in resplendent carapace.
- carapace
- come rescue me, my cavalier in resplendent carapace.
- plethora
- At Thanksgiving there was a plethora of dishes
- multifarious
- At Thanksgiving there was a multifarious number of dishes.
- scintillating
- bright, shiny, clever
- prognosticate
- Profesor Trelawney is constantly prognosticating a gruesome death for Harry.
- dogmatic
- Those who stick to a word for word interpretation of the law can be narrow minded and dogmatic.
- Eschew
- Think out of the box. Eschew conventionality.
- conventional
- normalcy
- dubious
- I feel dubious of your newfound love for cleaning your room
- Quondam
- We can go to cancun or hawaii during fall break. the quondam being preferable.
- accolade
- The opera singer fainted after the cheers and accolades from the crowd.
- Castigate
- Martha Stewart was castigated thoroughly before being sent to prison.
- Censure
- The movie critics often censor movies for which they feel censure.
- Denigrate
- Don't dare denigrate my honor!
- Disparage
- Many Americans disparage Euroupean art because of the frequent use of nudes to portray beauty.
- Encomium
- Though the doctor was in acoma, the commitee proceeded to present his family with a plaque full of encomium for his life's work.