Princeton sat vocab

Adhere

To believe in or follow

Advocate

To publicly recommend or support

Allude

To suggest or call attention to indirectly; to hint at

Ambivalence

Having mixed feelings

Analogous

Comparable

Anecdote

A short amusing story about real scenarios

Apprehensive

Anxious about something bad that will happen

Arbitrary

Based on random choice

Assert

To state a fact confidently

Bias

In favor of or against something to make it unfair

Brevity

Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech

Buttress

To increase the strength of; to reinforce

Concede

To admit after denying it first

Consensus

A general agreement

Corroborate

To confirm/support

Decisive

Settling an issue; producing a definite result

Deference

Respect

Degrade

To treat with disrespect

Denounce

To publicly declare to be wrong

Dispute

A disagreement

Divergent

Tending to be different or develop in different directions

Dormant

As if In a deep sleep

Eloquent

Fluent or persuasive in writing/speaking

Evoke

To bring or recall to the mind

Exert

To make a physical/mental effort

Explicit

Stated clearly in detail

Imminent

About to happen

Impede

To delay; hinder

Implicit

Implied but not plainly expressed

Impose

To take advantage of someone by demanding attention

Indifference

Lack of interest

Inevitable

Certain to happen; unavoidable

Invoke

To cite or appeal to something as an authority for an action or In support of an argument

Ironic

Happening in the opposite way

Novel

New

Obscure

Not discovered or known about

Obsolete

Out of date

Oppressive

Unjustly inflicting hardship

Pervasive

Spreading widely in an unpleasant way

Prevalence

Commonness

Prominent

Important or famous

Provoke

To stimulate a reaction or emotion in an unwelcome way

Reciprocate

To respond to an action by making a corresponding one

Reconcile

Restoring friendly relations between

Refute

To prove to be wrong

Renounce

To declare one’s abandonment

Repression

The prevention of a feeling or quality

Retain

To continue to have something

Skeptical

Doubtful

Speculate

To form a theory about a subject without firm evidence

Substantiate

To provide evidence to support or prove the truth of

Subtle

Delicate, nuance

Supplement

Something that enhances or completes something else when added to it

Tenuous

Very weak or slight

Undermine

To lessen the effectiveness of

Underscore

To emphasize

Unobtrusive

Not conspicuous or attracting attention

Validate

To prove the accuracy of something

Verisimilitude

The appearance of being true or real

Viable

Capable of working successfully