| # | S.A.T. WORD | P.O.S. | DEFINITION OF S.A.T. VOCABULARY WORD |
| 1 | Adroit | Adj | Skillful in the use of the hands, or in handling difficult situations |
| 2 | Benign | Adj | Gentle; kind-hearted; mild |
| 3 | Capitulate | Verb | Surrender; yield |
| 4 | Desultory | Adj | Lacking a plan; aimless |
| 5 | Evasive | Adj | Tending to avoid giving direct answers |
| 6 | Gravity | Noun | Seriousness |
| 7 | Hamper | Verb | Interfere with |
| 8 | Harbor | Verb | To provide shelter or refuge; hide |
| 9 | Impasse | Noun | A situation from which you cannot escape; stalemate |
| 10 | Infiltrate | Verb | Penetrate by passing through gaps; enter secretly and become established, such as a spy might do in an enemy organization |
| 11 | Intractable | Adj | Stubborn; immovable |
| 12 | Juncture | Noun | Point in time, especially a crucial one; joint or connection |
| 13 | Languish | Verb | Lose energy or motivation; become weak or depressed |
| 14 | Latent | Adj | Existing but inactive, such as a certain quality; dormant or still; invisible |
| 15 | Malleable | Adj | Able to be reshaped by force; pliable; impressionable |
| 16 | Nostalgic | Adj | Wishing for a return to the way things used to be; longing for the past; homesick |
| 17 | Obtuse | Adj | Dull; blunt; unintelligent; lacking sharpness |
| 18 | Pecuniary | Adj | Having to do with money; financial |
| 19 | Ponderous | Adj | Slow; weighty; labored |
| 20 | Prevalent | Adj | Widely-accepted; common; prevailing |
| 21 | Qualify | Verb | To limit the meaning of a previous statement; to modify |
| 22 | Recant | Verb | Take back something you’ve said; withdraw a statement or belief |
| 23 | Specious | Adj | Having a false or misleading appearance; seemingly true, but actually false |
| 24 | Symmetry | Noun | Balance; having a similar appearance on all sides |
| 25 | Tantamount | Adj | Equal; comparable |
| 26 | Undermine | Verb | To weaken by wearing away the foundation; to sabotage |
| 27 | Vacuous | Adj | Empty; stupid; purposeless |
| 28 | Wane | Verb | Grow gradually smaller |
| 29 | Wax | Verb | Grow gradually larger |
| 30 | Zenith | Noun | The highest point; apex |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Vocab 4 - Word List
Vocab 3 - Word List
| # | S.A.T. WORD | P.O.S. | DEFINITION OF S.A.T. VOCABULARY WORD |
| 1 | Abstruse | Adj. | Difficult to understand |
| 2 | Blight | Noun | Decay, disease, widespread death |
| 3 | Caustic | Adj. | Burning, either with chemicals or sarcasm |
| 4 | Deference | Noun | The act of yielding to someone out of respect |
| 5 | Eloquence | N/Adj… | Speech that is powerfully effective |
| 6 | Flagrant | Adj. | Openly and obviously evil; glaring; conspicuous |
| 7 | Garrulous | Adj. | Very talkative; loquacious |
| 8 | Harangue | N/V | A long, lecturing “speech”; to lecture or rant |
| 9 | Inchoate | Adj. | Not yet fully developed |
| 10 | Jocular | Adj. | Joking, playful, jesting, witty |
| 11 | Lament | V/N | To express sorrow; to complain… An expression of… |
| 12 | Malefactor | Noun | Person who tries to hurt others; a criminal |
| 13 | Nullify | Verb | To remove or cancel all value or force; to negate |
| 14 | Onerous | Adj. | Burdensome; oppressive |
| 15 | Penury | Noun | Extreme poverty or destitution |
| 16 | Recondite | Adj. | Hidden; difficult to understand; profound |
| 17 | Sonorous | Adj. | Loud; full in sound; booming |
| 18 | Torpid | Adj. | Sluggish; dull; lacking enthusiasm |
| 19 | Undulate | Verb | To move in a waving manner |
| 20 | Virulent | Adj. | Poisonous or destructive; filled with hate; harsh |
| 21 | Wastrel | Noun | A person who wastes his money or resources |
| 22 | Affable | Adj. | Friendly; easygoing |
| 23 | Bumptious | Adj. | Pushy; obnoxiously self-assertive |
| 24 | Cloister | N/V | A place of seclusion; to seclude or isolate |
| 25 | Decadence | N/Adj… | A moral decay or decline; declining in morals |
| 26 | Enmity | Noun | Mutual hatred |
| 27 | Fallacious | Adj. | False, Misleading |
| 28 | Germane | Adj. | Relevant or fitting |
| 29 | Homage | Noun | Respect paid to someone/thing; a tribute or honor |
| 30 | Incorrigible | Adj. | Impossible to correct, control or discipline |