SAT Vocab Week 1

Natasha W.
The Princeton Review flashcards
June 25-July 1
34 words 9 learners

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  1. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  2. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  3. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  4. assertion
    a declaration that is made emphatically
  5. alleviate
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  6. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  7. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  8. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  9. belabor
    beat soundly
  10. belie
    be in contradiction with
  11. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  12. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  13. abase
    cause to feel shame
  14. belittle
    cause to seem lesser or inferior
  15. amiable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  16. benefactor
    a person who helps people or institutions
  17. benign
    kind in disposition or manner
  18. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  19. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  20. animosity
    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
  21. bleak
    unpleasantly cold and damp
  22. abstract
    existing only in the mind
  23. bolster
    support and strengthen
  24. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  25. bureaucratic
    of or relating to unnecessary procedures and red tape
  26. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  27. stringent
    demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
  28. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  29. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  30. stark
    severely simple
  31. acclaim
    enthusiastic approval
  32. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  33. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  34. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
Created on Fri Jun 22 10:57:42 EDT 2012 (updated Sun Jan 27 11:04:51 EST 2013)

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