SAT Vocab - Luyi Instruction Booklet
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- abeyance
- stop
- besmirched
- malign
- phlegmatic
- slow sluggish
- maudlin
- very emotional
- dissension
- disagreement
- outmoded
- old-fashioned
- superstitious
- irrational belief
- perspicacity
- acuteness
- mediocre
- average
- posthumously
- after death
- contentious
- argumentative
- barbarian
- uncivilized person
- speculative
- guess
- salubrious
- healthful
- disgruntled
- unhappy
- defer
- put off
- dubious
- doubtful
- allusions
- indirect reference
- prolific
- fertile
- herald
- foreshadow
- realistic
- not optimistic
- aberrant
- abnormal
- insipid
- tasteless
- peripatetic
- traveling around
- extraneous
- excessive
- condescending
- look down upon
- plausible
- possible to occur
- ravaged
- damage
- derivative
- not original
- hinder
- block
- unsurpassable
- not to be exceeded
- connotations
- actual meaning
- autocratic
- absolute power
- lenient
- not strict
- augur
- foreshadow
- indebted
- grateful
- pedantic
- bookish
- sanguine
- optimistic
- credible
- convincing
- bliss
- extreme happiness
- interminable
- unending
- hoard
- store
- delineates
- describe
- flourish
- thrive
- immutable
- unchangeable
- transience
- lasting only a short time
- discourse
- speech
- didactic
- moralizing
- monotonously
- unchanging
- abhorrently
- loathsome
- volatile
- unstable
- oblique
- unclear
- intimidation
- fill with fear
- denting
- small depression
- exquisite
- delicate
- contradictory
- opposing
- squalid
- immoral
- recluse
- hermit
- belaboring
- criticize
- superficial
- fake
- corrupted
- to ruin morally
- regresssive
- move backwards
- perplexed
- confused
- rudimentry
- basic
- fabrication
- fake
- prominence
- standing out
- sedentary
- not moving
- dormancy
- hibernation
- premature
- mature before proper time
- cliches
- something repeated too much
- lethal
- deadly
- flamboyant
- extravagant
- eulogies
- speech for the dead
- decimated
- to kill
- indigent
- poor
- anonymously
- without acknowledged name
- myopic
- shortsighted
- industrious
- hard-working
- illuminated
- light up
- bellicose
- aggressive
- unilateral
- one-sided
- barren
- unable to produce
- virulent
- toxic/poisonous
- captivating
- attractive
- blunders
- mistake
- agitated
- nervous
- artless
- innocent
- despondent
- hopeless
- eloquence
- good speech
- bolstering
- support
- facile
- easy to attain
- solicitous
- anxious
- stagnant
- motionless
- tamed
- docile
- prolific
- fertile
- renown
- famous
- evolved
- transform
- alienation
- isolate
- urbane
- polite
- calamity
- disaster
- erudite
- knowledgeable
- extant
- existing
- misdirected
- to give wrong directions
- tediouisly
- unchanging
- insoluble
- incapable of dissolving
- unflatering
- uncomplimentary
- ambivalence
- clashing emotions
- perfunctory
- unclear
- susceptible
- easily affected
- acquiesce
- agree
- befuddled
- perplexed
- negligible
- unsignificant
- mercurial
- changeable
- yield to
- surrender
- curmudgeonly
- bad tempered person
- alluring
- attractive
- introverted
- turn inward
- emergence
- appearance
- debased
- reduce
- innate
- born with
- cosmopolitan
- global
- quiescence
- inactive
- beleaguered
- harass
- complaisant
- tamed
- intricate
- complicated
- unsavory
- bad tasting
- appeased
- sooth
- underrepresented
- small amount