SAT-Hit List
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- Assertion
- Declaration or statement
- Clarity
- Clearness in thought or expressions
- Cogent
- Convincing Reasonable
- Coherent
- Logically connected
- Cohesive
- Condition of Sticking Together
- Didactic
- Intended to Instruct
- Discourse
- Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
- Eloquence
- Ability to Speak Vividly or Persuasively
- Emphasize
- To stress; to give special attention to something;
- Fluid
- Easily Flowing
- Implication
- Act of suggesting or Hinting
- Lucid
- Easily Understood; Clear
- Pundit
- An Authority who expresses his/her opinions
- Rhetoric
- The Art of using language effectively and persuasively
- Arbiter
- A judge who Decides a Disputed Issue
- Biased
- Prejudiced
- Exculpate
- To free from Guilt or Blame
- Impartial
- Not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased
- Incontrovertible
- Indisputable; not open to question
- Integrit
- Trustworthiness; Completeness
- Jurisprudence
- The Philosophy or Science of Law
- Objectivity
- Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
- Penitent
- Expressing Remorse for one's misdeeds
- Plausible
- Seemingly Valid or acceptable; credible
- Substantiated
- Supported with Proof or Evidence; Verified
- Vindicated
- Freed from Blame
- Condescending
- Treating people as weak or inferior
- Contemptuous
- Feeling hatred; scornful
- Despotic
- Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
- Dictatorial
- Domineering; Oppressively Overbearing.
- Disdain
- Contempt, scorn (n or verb)
- Haughty
- Arrogant; vainly proud
- Imperious
- Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- Patronizing
- treating in a condescending manner
- Convoluted
- Intricate; Complex
- Cryptic
- Difficult to Comprehend
- Futile
- Having no useful Purpose; Pointless
- Impede
- To slow the progress of
- Obscure
- relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
- Quandary
- State of uncertainty or Perplexity
- Dilatory
- Habitually Late
- Indolent
- Lazy
- Insipid
- uninteresting; unchallenging
- Listless
- Lacking Energy
- Topor
- Laziness; Inactivity; Dullness
- Alienated
- Removed or Disassociated from
- Alliance
- Union of two or more groups
- Disparity
- Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
- Servile
- Submissive; Like a Servant
- Suppressed
- Subdued; Kept from being circulated
- Embellish
- To make beautiful by ornamenting; To decorate
- Florid
- Describing Flowery or Elaborate Speech
- Opulent
- Exhibiting a display of great wealth
- Ornate
- Elaborately Decorated
- Ostentatious
- Describing a showy or pretentious display
- Poignant
- Profoundly Moving; Touching
- Ebullience
- Intense Enthusiasm
- Effusive
- Emotionally Unrestrained; Gushy
- Egregrious
- Conspicuously bad or Offensive
- Flagrant
- Extremely or Deliberately shocking or noticeable
- Frenetic
- Wildly excited or active
- Gratuitous
- Given freely; Unearned; Unwarranted;
- Superfluous
- Extra; Unnecessary
- Alleviate
- To ease a pain or burden
- Asylum
- A place of retreat or security
- Auspicious
- Favorable; promising
- Benevolent
- well-meaning; generous
- Benign
- Kind and Gentle
- Emollient
- softening and soothing, n or adj
- Mollify
- To caml or soothe
- Reclamation
- Act of making something useful again
- Sanction
- economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
- Dubious
- Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
- Fabricated
- made; concocted in order to deceive
- Hypocrisy
- The Practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
- Slander
- Flase Charges and Malicious oral statements about someone
- Spurious
- Not genuine; flase; counterfit
- Camouflage
- To hide by blending in iwth surroundings
- Astute
- Shrewd; clever
- Clandestine
- Secretive
- Coup
- Brilliantly executed plan
- Disingenuous
- Not Straightforward; crafty
- Ruse
- Crafty Trick
- Stratagem
- Clever trick used to deceive or outwit
- Surreptitiously
- Done by secretive means
- Wary
- On guard' watchful
- Wily
- Cunning
- Ambiguous
- Open to more than one interpretation
- Ambivalent
- Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
- Apathetic
- Feeling or showing little Emotion
- Arbitrary
- Determined by impulse rather than reason
- Capricious
- Impulsive and unpredictable
- Equivocate
- To avoid making a definate statement
- Indifferent
- Not caring one way or the other
- Spontaneous
- Unplanned; naturally occurring
- Whimsical
- Subject to Erratic Behavior; unpredictable
- Inconsequential
- unimportant
- Superficial
- Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
- Tenuous
- Having Little Substance or Stregnth; Shaky; Unsure, weak
- Trivial
- of Little important or significance
- Assiduous
- Hard-Working
- Compelling
- Forceful; urgently demanding attention
- Diligent
- Marked by Painstaking effort; Hard-working
- Dogged
- Stubbornly persevering
- Endure
- To put up with; To survive a Hardship
- Intrepid
- Courageous; Fearless
- Maverick
- One who is independent and resits adherence to a group
- Obdurate
- Stubborn; Inflexible
- Obstinate
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
- Proliferate
- To grow or increase rapidly
- Tenacity
- Persistence
- Vitality
- Energy; Power to survive
- Assimilation
- To absorb; to Make similar
- Consensus
- General agreement
- Context
- Circumstances of a situation; enviornment
- Derived
- Copied or adapted from a source
- Incumbent
- Imposed as a duty; obligatory
- Inevitable
- Certain to happen, unavoidable
- Malleable
- Easily Shaped or formed; easily influenced
- Subdue
- To restrain; to hold back
- Acquired
- Developed or Learned; not naturally occuring
- Conception
- The ability to form or understand an idea
- Conviction
- a fixed or strong belief
- Dogmatic
- Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
- Enlightening
- informative; contibuting to one's awareness
- Impression
- Feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
- Intuition
- Power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
- Misconception
- an incorrect understanding or inrerpretation
- Perception
- Awareness; insight
- Perspective
- Point of View
- Profound
- Having great depth or seriousness
- Innate
- inborn; built-in
- Inherent
- possessed at Birth; inborn
- Inveterate
- Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
- Omnipotent
- all-powerful
- proximity
- closeness
- Elusive
- Difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting
- Emigrate
- to leave one country or region and settle in another
- Transient
- passing awar with time;Passing from one place to another
- Transitory
- short-lived or temporary
- Affable
- easy-going; Friendly
- Amenable
- responsive, agreeable
- Camaraderie
- goodwill between friends
- Cordial
- Sincere; Friendly
- Facetious
- Playfully humorous
- Impinge
- Hinder; interefere with
- Lament
- Express greif for; mourn
- Melancholy
- Sadness; depression
- Truncated
- Shortened; cut off
- Aesthetic
- Having to do with the appreciation of Beauty
- Anthology
- Collection of literary pieces
- Contemporary
- current, modern; from the same time
- Dilettante
- one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of knowledge
- Eclectic
- Made up of a variety os sources or styles
- Excerpt
- Selected part of a passage or scene
- Genre
- Describing a category of artistic endeavor
- Medley
- Assortment or mixture, especially of musical pieces
- Mural
- Large Painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
- Narrative
- a story; characterized by the telling of a story
- Parody
- Artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
- Realism
- Artistic Representation that aims for visual accuracy
- Virtuoso
- tremembously skilled artist
- Decorous
- proper; marked by good taste
- Equanimity
- Quality of being caml and even tempered; composure
- Modest
- Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
- Propriety
- Appropriateness of behavior
- Prudent
- Exercising good judgement or common sense
- Serene
- calm
- Staid
- unemotional; serious
- Stoic
- Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassice
- Condemn
- to express strong disapproval of; denounce
- Discredit
- To cause to be doubted
- Disparage
- So speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
- Pejorative
- describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
- Vilify
- To make vicious statements about
- Brusque
- Rudely Abrupt
- Caustic
- Bitingly Sarcastic or witty
- Feral
- Savage; untamed
- Fractious
- Quarrelsome; unruly
- Incorrigible
- Unable to be reformed
- Ingrate
- an ungrateful person
- Insolent
- Insulting in manner or speech
- Notorious
- known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
- Pugnacious
- Combative; Belligerent
- Reprehensible
- Worthy of Blame