Nella's SAT words
Words I didn't know from a big fat list
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- reprove
- censure; rebuke
- ascendency
- controlling influence; domination
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial; austere
- coercion
- use of force to get someone to obey
- cursory
- casual; hastily done
- corroborate
- confirm; support
- credulity
- belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté
- despondent
- depressed; gloomy
- delineate
- portray
- disseminate
- distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
- equivocal
- ambiguous; intentionally misleading
- erudite
- learned; scholarly
- expedient
- suitable; practical; politic
- exonerate
- acquit; exculpate
- extol
- praise; glorify
- placate
- pacify; conciliate
- profusion
- overabundance; lavish expenditure
- prodigal
- wasteful; reckless with money
- servile
- slavish; cringing
- repudiate
- disown; disavow
- reticence
- reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence
- taciturn
- habitually silent
- sycophant
- servile flatterer
- vilify
- slander
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate
- ostentatious
- showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
- opulence
- extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
- inundate
- overwhelm; flood; submerge
- incorrigible
- not correctable
- laud
- praise
- adversity
- poverty; misfortune
- adulation
- flattery; admiration
- inane
- silly; senseless
- hedonist
- one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
- garrulous
- loquacious; wordy; talkative
- austere
- forbiddingly stern; severely simple
- condone
- overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
- conciliatory
- reconciling; soothing
- duplicity
- double-dealing; hypocrisy
- ephemeral
- short-lived; fleeting
- esoteric
- hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
- emulate
- imitate; rival
- extricate
- free; disentangle
- succinct
- brief; terse; compact
- surreptitious
- secret; furtive; sneaky
- usurp
- seize another's power of rank
- venerate
- revere
- partisan
- one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
- insipid
- lacking in flavor; dull
- innocuous
- harmless
- listless
- lacking in spirit or energy
- levity
- lack of seriouness; lightness
- incite
- arouse to action
- gregarious
- sociable
- guile
- deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning
- frugality
- thrift; economy
- mitigate
- appease; moderate
- furtive
- stealthy; sneaky
- accolade
- award of merit