2005 Princeton Review SAT Hit Parade - 1
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- Didactic
- Intended to instruct
- Discourse
- Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
- Eloquence
- The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
- Lucid
- Easily understood; clear
- Pundit
- An authority who expresses his/her opinions
- Rhetoric
- The art of using language effectively and persuasively
- Exculpate
- To free from guilt or blame[; acquit; vindicate]
- Incontrovertible
- Indisputable; not open to question
- Integrity
- Trustworthiness; completeness
- Jurispudence
- The philosophy or science of law
- Penitent
- Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
- Substantiated
- Supported with proof or evidence; verified
- Vindicated
- Freed from blame[;acquitted; exculpated]
- Despotic
- Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
- Patronizing
- Treating in a condescending manner
- Convoluted
- Intricate; complex
- Cryptic
- Difficult to understand[; mystifying or hidden]
- Quandary
- A state of uncertainty or perplexity
- Dilatory
- Habitually late
- Indolent
- Lazy
- Insipid
- Uninteresting; unchallenging
- Listless
- Lacking energy
- Torpor
- Laziness; inactivity; dullness
- Disparity
- Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
- Florid
- Describing flowery or elaborate speech
- Opulent
- Exhibiting a display of great wealth
- Ornate
- Elaborately decorated[; embellished]
- Ostentatious
- Describing a showy or pretentious display
- Ebullience
- Intense enthusiasm
- Effusive
- Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
- Egregious
- Conspicuously [or outrageously] bad or offensive[; flagrant]
- Flagrant
- Exteremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable[; egregious]
- Frenetic
- Wildly excited or active
- Gratuitous
- Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
- Asylum
- A place of retreat or security
- Emollient
- Softening and soothing OR something that softens or soothes
- Mollify
- To calm or soothe
- Reclamation
- The act of making somethign useful again
- Dubious
- Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
- Spurious
- Not genuine; false; counterfeit
- Astute
- Shrewd; clever
- Coup
- A brilliantly executed plan
- Disingenuous
- Not straightforward; crafty
- Ruse
- A crafty trick[; an artifice]
- Stratagem
- A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
- Ambivalent
- Simultaneously having opposite feelings; uncertain
- Equivocate
- To avoid making a definite statement
- Superficial
- Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
- Tenuous
- Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak
- Dogged
- Stubbornly persevering
- Intrepid
- Courageous; fearless
- Maverick
- One who is independent ard resists adherence to a group
- Obdurate
- Stubborn; inflexible
- Obstinate
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
- Proliferate
- To grow or increase rapidly
- Tenacity
- Persistence
- Consensus
- General agreement
- Incumbent
- Imposed as a duty; obligatory
- Malleable
- Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
- Conception
- The ability to form or understand an idea