SAT: Princeton Review - certain words from "The Monster List"

John S. (United States of America)
The words i didn't know and found hard in the back of the "Manual for the SAT" by Princeton Review.
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  1. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  2. aberration
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  3. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  4. acrid
    strong and sharp, as a taste or smell
  5. acrimony
    a rough and bitter manner
  6. affectation
    a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
  7. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  8. antiseptic
    thoroughly clean and free of disease-causing organisms
  9. antithesis
    exact opposite
  10. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  11. arable
    capable of being farmed productively
  12. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  13. aspersion
    a disparaging remark
  14. atrophy
    a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  15. attenuate
    become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  16. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  17. avant-garde
    radically new or original
  18. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  19. balm
    preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing
  20. baneful
    evil or sinister
  21. blandish
    praise somewhat dishonestly
  22. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
  23. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  24. cadence
    the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  25. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  26. capacious
    large in the amount that can be contained
  27. cavort
    play boisterously
  28. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  29. cloying
    overly sweet
  30. compendious
    briefly giving the gist of something
  31. complacence
    the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
  32. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
  33. congenial
    suitable to your needs
  34. conjure
    summon into action or bring into existence
  35. conscript
    enroll into service compulsorily
  36. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  37. courtier
    an attendant for a monarch
  38. dalliance
    the act of delaying and playing instead of working
  39. decorous
    characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste
  40. decry
    express strong disapproval of
    to publicly denounce
  41. deferment
    act of putting off to a future time
  42. demurral
    (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
  43. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  44. denude
    make bare or strip of a covering
  45. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  46. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  47. disarming
    act of reducing or depriving of weapons
  48. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  49. dispensation
    the act of giving out in portions
  50. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  51. doggerel
    a comic verse of irregular measure
  52. effacement
    the act of withdrawing, eliminating, or making inconspicuous
  53. encumbrance
    an onerous or difficult concern
  54. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  55. enervated
    lacking strength or vigor
  56. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  57. felicitous
    exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
  58. finagle
    achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
  59. flotilla
    a fleet of small craft
  60. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  61. foppish
    overly concerned with extreme elegance in dress and manner
  62. founder
    a person who establishes some institution
  63. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  64. galled
    painful from having the skin abraded
  65. give
    transfer possession of something concrete or abstract
  66. garish
    tastelessly showy
  67. garner
    assemble or get together
  68. gibe
    laugh at with contempt and derision
  69. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  70. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  71. harbinger
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  72. hermetic
    completely sealed or airtight
  73. heterogeneity
    the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
  74. histrionic
    overly dramatic or emotional
  75. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  76. imperious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  77. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  78. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  79. indigence
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  80. indomitable
    impossible to subdue
  81. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  82. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  83. ingenue
    an artless innocent young girl
  84. insolvent
    unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
  85. interpolate
    insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
  86. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  87. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  88. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
  89. irreproachable
    free of guilt; not subject to blame
  90. knave
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  91. laconic
    brief and to the point
  92. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  93. latency
    the state of being not yet evident or active
  94. libelous
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  95. lilt
    a jaunty rhythm in music or speech
  96. lionize
    assign great social importance to
  97. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  98. magisterial
    of or relating to a civil officer who administers the law
  99. melange
    a varied mixture or assortment of things
  100. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  101. missive
    a written message addressed to a person or organization
  102. myopic
    unable to see distant objects clearly
  103. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  104. occlusion
    the act of blocking
  105. odoriferous
    emitting a smell, especially an unpleasant smell
  106. officious
    intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  107. ostensible
    appearing as such but not necessarily so
  108. ostentation
    pretentious or showy or vulgar display
  109. pander
    yield to; give satisfaction to
  110. pedagogical
    relating to the study of teaching
  111. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  112. perjure
    make oneself guilty of telling untruths in a court of law
  113. perquisite
    an incidental benefit for certain types of employment
  114. pillory
    a wooden instrument of punishment on a post
  115. plasticity
    the property of being physically malleable
  116. plaudit
    enthusiastic approval
  117. plenitude
    a full supply
  118. precipitous
    extremely steep
  119. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  120. preponderance
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
  121. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  122. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  123. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  124. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  125. querulous
    habitually complaining
  126. rapport
    a relationship of mutual understanding between people
  127. recrimination
    mutual accusations
  128. remuneration
    paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
  129. repartee
    adroitness and cleverness in reply
  130. repertory
    a collection of works that an artist or company can perform
  131. reprieve
    postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal
  132. resplendent
    having great beauty
  133. retroactive
    affecting things past
  134. risque
    suggestive of sexual impropriety
  135. rousing
    capable of stirring enthusiasm or excitement
  136. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  137. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  138. salvo
    rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
  139. sate
    fill to contentment
  140. savant
    a learned person
  141. serpentine
    resembling a snake in form
  142. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
  143. spate
    a sudden forceful flow
  144. spurious
    plausible but false
  145. succulent
    tasty and full of juice
  146. sumptuous
    rich and superior in quality
  147. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
Created on Tue Jul 31 18:23:44 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Sep 20 18:12:39 EDT 2012)

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