SAT Practice Test Words

Karen C. (United States of America)
2007-2008 Practice Test
50 words 107 learners

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  1. conscientious
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  2. incidental
    minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature
  3. collaborative
    accomplished by working jointly
  4. persistent
    stubbornly unyielding
  5. systematic
    characterized by order and planning
  6. ally
    a friendly nation
  7. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  8. contiguous
    having a common boundary or edge
  9. pluralistic
    of the doctrine that reality consists of basic substances
  10. sovereign
    a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
  11. mystical
    beyond ordinary understanding
  12. enthralling
    able to capture and hold one's interest or attention
  13. flippant
    showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  14. reminiscence
    a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
  15. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  16. whimsical
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  17. plasticity
    the property of being physically malleable
  18. acronym
    a word formed from the initial letters of several words
  19. retraction
    a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
  20. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
  21. prospectus
    a document that sets forth a plan for a business enterprise
  22. consign
    give over to another for care or safekeeping
  23. conjoin
    make contact or come together
  24. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  25. refract
    subject to change in direction of a propagating wave
  26. salvage
    rescuing a ship or its crew from a shipwreck or a fire
  27. flamboyance
    the quality of being showy, extravagant, or elaborate
  28. baneful
    evil or sinister
  29. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  30. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  31. maverick
    someone who exhibits independence in thought and action
  32. potentate
    a powerful ruler, especially one who is unconstrained by law
  33. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  34. interloper
    someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another
  35. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  36. entrenched
    dug in
  37. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  38. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  39. debilitating
    impairing strength and vitality
  40. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  41. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  42. diminutive
    very small
  43. flotilla
    a fleet of small craft
  44. archipelago
    a group of many islands in a large body of water
  45. folly
    the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
  46. venerable
    profoundly honored
  47. subterfuge
    something intended to misrepresent the nature of an activity
  48. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  49. bombast
    pompous or pretentious talk or writing
  50. disputation
    a formal debate
Created on Thu May 21 11:51:04 EDT 2015 (updated Thu May 21 11:52:19 EDT 2015)

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