SAT vocab words 281-300

Question 1

expressing sadness or sorrow

Answer 1

plaintive

Question 2

a meaningless truism; a dull remark

Answer 2

platitude

Question 3

an overabundance of; an excess, unending number

Answer 3

plethora

Question 4

heavy; massive; dull; so large to be clumsy

Answer 4

ponderous

Question 5

a forewarning

Answer 5

portent

Question 6

practical, based on experience, down to earth

Answer 6

pragmatic

Question 7

to cause to happen (usually suddenly)

Answer 7

precipitate

Question 8

to cut off or prevent from happening in the first place

Answer 8

preclude

Question 9

to take the place of; to seize upon to the exclusion of something or someone else

Answer 9

preempt

Question 10

a right or privilege specific to a person, class, or group

Answer 10

prerogative

Question 11

unspoiled, clean, pure

Answer 11

pristine

Question 12

to produce offspring; to reproduce

Answer 12

procreate

Question 13

recklessly extravagant; wasteful; profuse

Answer 13

prodigal

Question 14

offspring, descendants, children

Answer 14

progeny

Question 15

to increase quickly

Answer 15

proliferate

Question 16

a strong natural inclination or preference; a tendency

Answer 16

propensity

Question 17

to actively seek to convert to a belief, usually religious; to recruit to your point of view

Answer 17

proselytize

Question 18

preparing for the future; careful

Answer 18

provident

Question 19

for the time being; temporary, conditional, subject to change

Answer 19

provisional

Question 20

temporary state of suffering and misery; place between heaven and hell

Answer 20

purgatory