100 SAT Vocab Words (3B)

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  1. adulation
    exaggerated flattery or praise
  2. adversity
    a state of misfortune or affliction
  3. aesthetic
    characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  4. amicable
    characterized by friendship and good will
  5. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  6. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  7. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  8. arid
    lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  9. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  10. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  11. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  12. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  13. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  14. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  15. clairvoyant
    someone who can perceive things not present to the senses
  16. conditional
    imposing or depending on or containing an assumption
  17. convergence
    the act of coming closer
  18. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  19. demagogue
    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
  20. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
  21. diligent
    quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
  22. discredit
    the state of being held in low esteem
  23. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  24. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  25. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  26. enervating
    causing weakness or debilitation
  27. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  28. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  29. exemplary
    worthy of imitation
  30. extenuating
    partially excusing or justifying
  31. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  32. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  33. frugal
    avoiding waste
  34. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  35. hedonist
    someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
  36. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  37. impute
    attribute or credit to
  38. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  39. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  40. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  41. intuitive
    spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency
  42. lobbyist
    someone who is employed to persuade how legislators vote
  43. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  44. opulent
    rich and superior in quality
  45. orator
    a person who delivers a speech
  46. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  47. perfidious
    tending to betray
  48. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  49. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  50. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  51. querulous
    habitually complaining
  52. rancorous
    showing deep-seated resentment
  53. reclusive
    withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
  54. resilient
    recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
  55. reverence
    a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  56. sagacity
    the trait of having wisdom and good judgment
  57. spontaneity
    the quality of coming from feelings without constraint
  58. spurious
    plausible but false
  59. submissive
    inclined or willing to give in to orders or wishes of others
  60. substantiate
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  61. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  62. suppress
    put down by force or authority
  63. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  64. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  65. transient
    lasting a very short time
  66. venerable
    profoundly honored
  67. vindicate
    show to be right by providing justification or proof
  68. novice
    someone new to a field or activity
Created on Mon Nov 25 08:03:34 EST 2013 (updated Fri Dec 06 10:50:12 EST 2013)

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