SAT- N Flashcards
Nadir
lowest point
Naive
lacking experience and understanding
Narcissism
excessive love or admiration of oneself
Nascent
starting to develop, coming into existence
Navigable
sufficient for vessels to pass through
Nebulous
vague, undefined
Necromancy
the practice of communicating with the dead in order to predict the future
Nefarious
intensely wicked or vicious
Negate
nullify, deny
Negligent
careless, inattentive
Negligible
not worth considering
Neologism
new word or expression
Neonate
a newborn child
Neophyte
novice, beginning
Nettle
to irritate
Neutrality
disinterest, impartiability
Neutralize
to balance
Nihilism
the belief that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is useless; the belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable
Noisome
stinking, putrid
Nomenclature
a system of scientific names
Nominal
existing in name only, negligible
Nonchalant
calm, casual, seemingly unexcited
Nondescript
lacking interesting or distinctive qualities
Non sequitur
A statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said.
Nostalgic
longing for things of the past
Notable
remarkable, worthy of notice
Notion
idea or conception
Notoriety
unfavorable fame
Novel
new and not resembling anything formerly known
Novelty
something new and unusual
Novice
beginner
Noxious
harmful, unwholesome
Nuance
shade of meaning
Nudge
gentle push
Nullify
to make legally invalid to counteract the effect of
Numismatics
coin collecting
Nurture
to help develop, cultivate
