SAT 2400 Flashcards
Bevy
A large group
Bilk
To steak; to embezzle
Boor
A rude person
Acme
High point; zenith
Windfall
1 : something (as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind
2 : an unexpected, unearned, or sudden gain or advantage
Fawn
To flatter subserviently
Gait
A manner or rate of walking
Glib
Easeful w speaking, storytelling
Glut
To oversupply; to stuff
Hail
To praise
Hale
Healthy
Iota
A very small amount
Onus
A duty or burden
Opus
A great work, esp of music
Tout
To flaunt
Tyro
A beginner, a neophyte, a fledgling
Whet
To sharpen; to stimulate an interest in
Wily
Crafty, sly
Alacrity
Cheerful readiness
Aphorism
A wise saying; an adage; a maxim
Appropriate
To take another’s property as one’s own
Asylum
A safe place to practice one’s religion or follow one’s convictions
Auspicious
Foretelling well for the future
Avant-garde
Cutting-edge; new; experimental
Behemoth
A huge animal; sth of great size or power
Bequest
A gift upon one’s death
Breadth
Range or scope
Bungle
To botch; to mess up
Byzantine
Ornate; fancy
Chagrin
Embarrassment
Circumscribed
Defined or limited; isolated
Constituents
Voters
Consummate
Complete; perfect
Curtail
To cut short; abridge
Debased
Morally low; base
Decorous
Having propriety
Denuded
Made infertile or ineffective
Desultory
Aimless; lacking a plan or purpose
Didactic
Relating to instruction, lecturing
Dilatory
Lacking goals of purpose; aimless
Din
Noise
Dirge
Funeral song
Discomfited
Embarrassed; disconcerted
Discretionary
Showing prudence; based on personal choice
Disingenuous
Dishonest; crafty
Disposed
Behaviorally inclined
Edifice
A building
Egregious
Blatantly wrong
Emollient
A soothing lotion
Enervate
To weaken; to drain of energy
Enfranchise
To free from slavery; to bestow the right to vote
Espouse
To support
Expurgate
To delete obscene or other undesirable material from text
Facile
Easy
Felicitous
Suitable; pleasant
Galvanize
To incite; to arouse into action
Gaunt
Thin; haggard
Gingerly
Carefully
Hapless
Unlucky; unfortunate
Harbringer
A messenger; an omen
Hermetic
Sealed in an airtight manner
Histrionic
Over theatrical; melodramatic
Incantation
A calling out for inspiration or guidance; an invocation
Inchoate
Not fully formed
Incisive
Harsh; cutting; vitriolic
Incumbent
One who holds political office
Indelible
Permanent; unable to be erased
Ineffable
Incapable of expression in words
Inexorable
Steadfast; resolute
Inflammatory
Likely to excite rage or disorder
Insular
Isolated; remote
ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience.
“a stubbornly insular farming people”
Relating to or from an island
Interlocutor
One who participates in conversation or dialogue
Intractable
Hard to manage or control
Jaded
Bored from too much pleasure or overindulgence
Jingoism
Aggressive touting of one’s patriotism
Juggernaut
Relentless force
Juxtapose
To place things side by side for the sake of comparing
Legion
A very large number
Licentious
Morally lax
Leviathan
Something huge; a subaquatic, mythological sea creature
Melee
A hand-to-hand fight involving several participants
Milieu
Environment
Myopic
Short-sighted
Naivete
Lack of exp or sophistication
Nihilism
A philosophical belief involving the rejection of established valued and morality
Nondescript
Hard to describe; featureless
Nonplussed
Confused to the point of being unable to act or speak
Obfuscate
To obscure the meaning of
Oblique
Indirect; slanted
Onerous
Burdensome
Opprobrium
Disgrace, disapproval
Ostensible
Apparent
Panacea
A cure-all
Partisan
Biased; opinionated
Pedantic
Narrowly or pretentiously learned
Perfidious
Traitorous; disloyal
Petulant
Irritable
Plaudits
Applause; praise
Pontificate
To speak in a supercilious and self-important manner
Pragmatist
A practical person
Precept
A rule of behavior or action
Precipitate
To hurry up; to make happen before planned
Prescience
Advance knowledge; foresight; anticipation
Probity
Honesty; integrity
Profligate
Extravagant to a fault; prodigal
Proliferate
To reproduce or multiply quickly
Prose
Writing that is not poetry; language ordinarily used in speaking
Prowess
Valor; skill
Pundits
Erudite persons
Quibble
To find fault with
Refracftory
Stubborn
Relegate
To demote to an inferior position
Reprehensible
Worthy of blame
Rescind
To take back, to withdraw
Retrograde
Going backward and therefore not progressing
Sanctimonious
Pretending to be religious
Sanction
To approve
Scrupulous
Very conscientious
Sophistry
Deceptive thinking; invalid arguments
Spate
An outpouring
Specious
False, not authentic; spurious
Steadfastness
Loyalty, resolve
Subterfuge
Deception
Supplant
To replace; to substitute for
Surfeit
A surplus
Sybarite
A pleasure-loving person
Table(v)
To set aside an issue to be discussed at a later time
Tawdry
Cheap-looking; gaudy
Temerity
Reckless boldness
Temper (v)
To lessen the severity of
Threadbare
Very worn; shabby
Perfidy
Treachery
Unctuous
Inky, oily
Untenable
Unable to be defended
Upstary
A rebel, an insurgent; a maverick
Vaunt
To brag or boast
Venial
Forgivable
Verisimilitude
Probability; sth that has the appearance of truth
Vestigial
Extremely small
Victuals
Food
Vignette
A brief written description
Virile
Manly, strong
Visceral
Relating to the abdomen,; instinctive rather than reasoned
Vitiate
To impair; to render ineffective
Vitriolic
Harsh, biting, caustic
Vocation
A profession to which one feels called to carry out
Watershed
A defining moment; a turning point
Waylay
To ambush
Wheedle
To cajole or coax
Wily
Sly
Windfall
An unexpected gain or boon
Winsome
Attractive
Witticism
A clever remark
Xenophobic
Fearful of foreigners
Zephyr
A light breeze
Obsequious
: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
synonyms see subservient
