SAT Core List 8 Flashcards
Abstain
To choose not to do something
Acute
Having keen insight
Ameliorate
Improve
Amenable
Willing
Antecedent
Something that came before
Arbitration
Resolving a dispute
Assuage
Ease
Atypical
Not typical
Calamity
Disaster
Circuitous
Roundabout
Cognizant
Aware
Compound
Stalled area with a group of buildings
Consecrate
Dedicate to something holy
Coronation
Crowning
Cosmopolitan
Sophisticated and worldly
Deprecate
Belittle
Despondent
Depressed and discouraged
Divulge
Reveal a secret
Dour
Stern and joyless
Duplicity
Crafty and dishonest
Embezzle
Steal money with false records
Epistolary
In letters and mail
Exalt
Glorify
Fidelity
Loyalty
Flagrant
Offensive
Hardy
Can survive in hard situation
Ignominious
Humiliating and disgracing
Indigent
Very poor
Inquisitor
Someone who forcefully questions people
Instigate
Urge
Iridescent
Showing rainbow colors
Irrevocable
Incapable of being taken back
Larceny
Taking thought stealing or trickery
Manifest
Easily understandable and obvious
Mollify
Soften in temper
Nominal
Insignificant
Orthodox
Conventional and based of a protocol
Paradox
Contradictory but true
Pliable
Flexible
Predilection
A preference
Preponderance
Superiority
Quixotic
Idealistic and impractical
Reconcile
Make consistent with existing ideas
Restitution
Restoration to the rightful owner
Rhapsodize
Excessive enthusiasm
Salient
Significant
Semaphore
Visual signal
Staid
Serious and disciplined
Tangential
Divergent and on a tangent
Vapid
Dull
Vocation
Profession or job