Vocabulary #11: SAT Words

Question 1

Ingenious

Answer 1

(adj) Characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction
Cleverly inventive or resourceful

Question 2

Ingenuous

Answer 2

(adj) Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere

Question 3

Clemency

Answer 3

(adj) The quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy
An act or deed showing mercy or leniency
Of the weather: mildness or temperateness

Question 4

Deft

Answer 4

(adj) Dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever

Question 5

Superfluous

Answer 5

(adj) Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive

Unnecessary or needless

Question 6

Erudite

Answer 6

(adj) Characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

SYNONYMS: educated, knowledgeable; wise sapient

Question 7

Pedestrian

Answer 7

(adj) Lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction; commonplace; prosaic or dull

Question 8

Craven

Answer 8

(adj) Cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous
(n)Coward
(v-with object) To make cowardly

Question 9

Nonchalant

Answer 9

(adj) Coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited, casual

Question 10

Emulate

Answer 10

(v-with object) To try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass
To rival with some degree of success

Question 11

Forte

Answer 11

(n) A person’s strong suit. or most highly developed characteristic, talent, or skill; something that one excels in

Question 12

Fabricate

Answer 12

(v-with object)To make by art or skill and labor; construct
To make by assembling parts or sections. To devise ot invent
To fake; forge

Question 13

Indomitable

Answer 13

(adj) That which cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will or courage; unconquerable

Question 14

Hallowed

Answer 14

(adj) Regarded as holy; venerated; sacred

Question 15

Uncanny

Answer 15

(adj) Having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary
Mysterious; arousing superstitious fear or dread; uncomfortably strange

Question 16

Lackadaisical

Answer 16

(adj) without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic

Question 17

Notorious

Answer 17

(adj) Widely and unfavorably known

Publicly or generally known as for a particular trait

Question 18

Droll

Answer 18

(adj)Amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous;waggish (n) A droll person; jester; wag

Question 19

Eschew

Answer 19

(v-with object) To abstain or keep away from: shun: avoid

Question 20

Compuction

Answer 20

(n) A feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain: contrition; remorse. Any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.