SAT Words List #17-20
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- acumen
- mental keenness.
- adage
- wise saying; proverb.
- adamant
- hard; inflexible.
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression.
- cataract
- great waterfall; eye abnormality.
- catastrophe
- calamity
- categorical
- without exceptions; unqualified; absolute.
- delude
- deceive.
- deluge
- flood; rush.
- eloquence
- expressiveness; persuasive speech.
- fatuous
- foolish; inane.
- gaudy
- flashy; showy.
- harrow
- break up ground after plowing; torture.
- implausible
- unlikely; unbelievable.
- implement
- put into effect; supply with tools.
- implication
- that which is hinted at or suggested.
- lascivious
- lustful.
- malefactor
- wishing evil.
- nemesis
- revenging agent.
- pathological
- pertaining to disease.
- pathos
- tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings.
- patriarch
- father and ruler of a family or tribe.
- reciprocal
- mutual; exchangeable; interacting.
- reciprocate
- repay in kind.
- sedulous
- diligent.
- seethe
- be disturbed; boil.
- seine
- net for catching fish.
- therapeutic
- curative.
- thermal
- pertaining to heat.
- unfledged
- immature.
- addle
- muddle; drive crazy; become rotten.
- adduce
- present as evidence.
- adept
- expert at.
- bellicose
- warlike.
- belligerent
- quarrelsome.
- catharsis
- purging or cleansing of any passage of the body.
- caucus
- private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine policy.
- causal
- implying a cause-and-effect relationship.
- delve
- dig; investigate.
- elucidate
- explain; enlighten.
- fauna
- animals of a period or region.
- haughtiness
- pride; arrogance.
- implicit
- understood but not stated.
- implore
- beg.
- impolitic
- not wise.
- lassitude
- languor; weariness.
- malicious
- dictated by hatred or spite.
- malign
- speak evil of; defame.
- malignant
- having an evil influence; virulent.
- patronize
- support; act superior toward.
- paucity
- scarcity.
- peccadillo
- slight offense.
- recluse
- hermit.
- seismic
- pertaining to earthquakes.
- semblance
- outward appearance; guise.
- senility
- old age; feeblemindedness of old age.
- thrall
- slave; bondage.
- thwart
- baffle; frustrate.
- unfrock
- to strip a priest or minister of church authority.
- ungainly
- awkward.
- wax
- increase; grow.
- adherent
- supporter; follower.
- adjunct
- something attached to but holding an inferior position.
- admonish
- warn; reprove.
- bemused
- confused; lost in thought; preoccupied.
- caustic
- burning; sarcastically biting.
- cavil
- make frivolous objections.
- cede
- transfer; yield title to.
- demagogue
- person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people.
- elusive
- evasive; baffling; hard to grasp.
- emaciated
- thin and wasted.
- fawning
- courting favor by cringing and flattering.
- import
- significance.
- importunate
- urging; demanding.
- importune
- beg earnestly.
- latent
- dormant; hidden.
- malingerer
- one who feigns illness to escape duty.
- obtuse
- blunt; stupid.
- pecuniary
- pertaining to money.
- pedagogy
- teaching; art of education.
- pedant
- scholor who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities.
- recondite
- abstruse; profound; secret.
- reconnaissance
- survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoitering.
- sententious
- terse; concise; aphoristic.
- septic
- putrid; producing putrefaction.
- throes
- violent anguish.
- throng
- crowd.
- unilateral
- one-sided.
- unison
- unity of pitch; complete accord.
- vantage
- position giving an advantage.
- waylay
- ambush; lie in wait.
- yokel
- country bumpkin.
- adorn
- decorate.
- adroit
- skillful.
- adulation
- flattery; admiration.
- benediction
- blessing.
- benefactor
- gift giver; patron.
- celerity
- speed; rapidity.
- celibate
- unmarried; abstaining from sexual intercourse.
- centrifugal
- radiating; departing from the center.
- demean
- degrade; humiliate.
- demeanor
- behavior; bearing
- gaunt
- lean and angular; barren.
- hazy
- slightly obscure.
- impostor
- someone who assumes a false identity.
- impotent
- weak; ineffective.
- impoverished
- poor.
- malleable
- capable of being shaped by pounding.
- neologism
- new or newly coined word or phrase.
- obviate
- make unnecessary; get rid of.
- pedestrian
- ordinary; unimaginative.
- pediatrician
- expert in children's diseases.
- pejorative
- having a deteriorating or depreciating effect on the meaning of a word.
- recount
- narrate or tell; count over again.
- recourse
- resorting to help when in trouble.
- sequester
- retire from public life; segregate; seclude.
- serendipity
- gift for finding valuable things not searched for.
- serenity
- calmness; placidity.
- timorous
- fearful; demonstrating fear.
- tirade
- extended scolding; denunciation.
- unkempt
- disheveled; with uncared-for appearance.
- unmitigated
- harsh; severe; not lightened.
- vapid
- insipid; inane.