English 2 Vocabulary: SAT Prep
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- verbal abuse
- invective
- harshly shocking, sensational; glowing
- lurid
- changeability
- mutability
- very tiny amount
- iota
- plot or scheme
- machination
- lowest point
- nadir
- tired by excess or over-use, slightly cynical
- jaded
- vague, cloudy
- nebulous
- whirlpool, turmoil, agitated state of mind
- maelstrom
- to cast off; throw cargo overboard
- jettison
- clumsy, tactless
- maladroit
- black magic
- necromancy
- huge force destroying everything in its path
- juggernaut
- humorous misuse of a word
- malapropism
- novice, beginner
- neophyte
- relating to motion, characterized by movement
- kinetic
- curse
- malediction
- belief that existence and all traditional values are meaningless
- nihilism
- sound of a funeral bell, omen of death or failure
- knell
- evil-doer; culprit
- malefactor
- stinking, putrid
- noisome
- fame, glory, honor
- kudos
- to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
- maligner
- conclusion not following from apparent evidence
- non sequitur
- tearful
- lachrymose
- foul-smelling
- malodorous
- lacking interesting distinctive qualities; dull
- nondescript
- idle, lazy; apathetic, indifferent
- lackadaisical
- strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rules
- martinet
- harmful, unwholesome
- noxious
- using few words
- laconic
- dawdler, loafer, lazy person
- laggard
- stubborn
- obdurate
- to attack with satire, mock harshly
- lampoon
- one who enjoys pain or humiliation
- masochist
- to confuse, obscure
- obfuscate
- place where food is stored
- larder
- overly sentimental
- maudlin
- idle talk
- palaver
- generosity, gift
- largess
- sickeningly sentimental
- mawkish
- lethargy, sluggishness
- lassitude
- huge stone used in a prehistoric structure
- megalith
- indirect, evasive, misleading, devious
- oblique
- trickery
- legerdemain
- mental state with delusions of wealth and power
- megalomania
- overly submissive, brown-nosing
- obsequious
- indifferent inactivity
- lethargy
- dishonest
- mendacious
- troublesome, boisterous, unruly
- obstreperous
- to rise in the air or cause to rise
- levitate
- beggar
- mendicant
- humor, frivolity, gaiety
- levity
- soldier for hire in foreign countries
- mercenary
- dictionary, list of words
- lexicon
- gaudy, falsely attractive
- meretricious
- to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
- obviate
- one without moral restraint
- libertine
- deserving reward or praise
- meritorious
- immoral; unrestrained by society
- licentious
- courageousness, endurance
- mettle
- easily flexed, limber, agile
- lissome
- person who hates human beings
- misanthrope
- hateful, contemptible
- odious
- talkative
- loquacious
- to calm or make less severe
- mollify
- instinctive, untaught
- intuitive
- sorrowful or mournful
- lugubrious
- dying, decaying
- moribund
- disgraceful
- opprobrious
- wealth
- opulence
- pitifully small or worthless
- paltry
- flamboyance, verve
- panache
- model of excellence or perfection
- paragon