SAT Core List 6 Flashcards
Abrogate
Abolish by authority
Acerbic
Bitter
Ambiguous
Uncertain
Analgesic
Something that reduces pain
Annex
A small room attached to a larger one
Ascetic
Practicing restraint for discipline or religion
Assail
Attack
Bombastic
Excessively confident
Buttress
Support
Catalyze
Charge or inspire
Cloying
Sickeningly sweet
Congeal
Thicken into a solid
Convention
Assembly of people
Corpulence
Extreme fatness
Denounce
Criticize publicly
Desiccated
Dehydrated
Diffuse
Scatter and break up
Dissent
Disagreeing
Dissuade
To persuade someone to not do something
Dogmatic
Arrogant
Empirical
Capable of being proved or disproved by experiment
Equanimity
Composure
Espouse
Support
Flabbergasted
Astounded
Grandiose
Magnificent and exaggerated scale
Hypothetical
Supposed or assumed
Impudent
Casually rude
Incumbent
Obligatory
Injunction
Order for official warning
Innovate
To do in an unprecedented way
Invective
Angry verbal attack
Inviolable
Secure from assault
Lucid
Clear and easy to understand
Mitigate
Make less violent
Noisome
Unpleasant and offensive
Opulent
Rich abundance
Panacea
Remedy for ills and difficulties
Phlegmatic
Uninterested
Pithy
Concisely meaningful
Potentate
A ruler
Pulchritude
Physical beauty
Quaint
Charmingly old fashioned
Reciprocate
Give in return
Revel
Enjoy intensely
Ruse
A trick
Saccharine
Sickeningly sweet
Somnolent
Sleepy
Tacit
Expressed without words
Utilitarian
Relating to or aiming at usefulness
Vicissitude
Event that occurs by chance
Yoke
To join