Hard SAT Words 50 SparkNotes

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  1. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  2. abrogate
    revoke formally
  3. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  4. acrimony
    a rough and bitter manner
  5. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  6. adumbrate
    describe roughly or give the main points or summary of
  7. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  8. anathema
    a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  9. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  10. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  11. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  12. aspersion
    a disparaging remark
  13. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  14. boon
    something that is desirable, favorable, or beneficial
  15. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  16. buffet
    piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room
  17. burnish
    polish and make shiny
  18. buttress
    a support usually of stone or brick
  19. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  20. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  21. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  22. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  23. clemency
    leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
  24. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  25. concomitant
    following or accompanying as a consequence
  26. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  27. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  28. conundrum
    a difficult problem
  29. credulity
    tendency to believe readily
  30. cupidity
    extreme greed for material wealth
  31. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  32. decry
    express strong disapproval of
  33. defile
    make dirty or spotty
  34. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  35. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  36. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  37. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  38. desecrate
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
  39. desiccated
    thoroughly dried out
  40. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  41. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  42. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  43. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  44. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  45. effulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  46. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  47. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
Created on Wed Jun 12 23:52:39 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Jun 12 23:55:49 EDT 2013)

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