Feb 2025 SAT Words Flashcards
addle
confuse: “Is it true that marijuana can addle your brain?”
clamor
demand noisily: “a clamor of sound woke them”
concurrent
simultaneous
connive
to scheme, to trick: “He accused the government of conniving with foreign companies to keep wages down.”
diverge
split, go in different directions
espy
observe, catch sight of
flummox
confuse, bewilder: “He was flummoxed by the legal jargon”
machination
plot or scheme: “Aaron Burr’s machinations resulted in Hamilton’s downfall.”
nescient
ignorant: “Although a briliiant mathematician, he was nascient about art.”
otiose
pointless: “Since you haven’t read the book, it would be otiose to ask what you thought of it.”
palpable
touchable (or seemingly so): “The sense of fear in the room was nearly palpable.”
palaver
talk unproductively and at great length: “The physical therapist palavered for the entire session about her vacation instead of working on his feet.”
sedulous
dedicated and persevering: “Luke’s approach to math became more sedulous as he got older.”
sinuously
windingly: “The cat moved sinuously around his ankles.”
unwonted
unaccustomed or unusual: “She displayed unwonted joy at the funeral.”
vacuous
mindless, empty-headed: “He had a vacuous expression on his face.”
vex
annoy: “Jeffrey’s antics vexed Steven.”
lugubrious
mournful:
“Digby O’dell put on a lugubrious expression: “I’ll be … shoveling off”
