LSAT Vocabulary Building

Correspondence

a way for authors to challenge the main findings of a published paper and gives the original authors a chance to respond.

Exemplify

Be an example of

Disparate

Differing

Incisive

Intelligent 

Posterity

Future generations 

Eschewed

Abstained from

Repealed

Revoked

Extant

Still in existence 

Concession

Compromise 

Equivocate

Be vague 

Abreast

Alongside

Preclude

Prevent

Inextricably

Unable to separate 

Efficacious

Successful 

Erroneous

Inaccurate 

Ample

Sufficient 

Derivative

Unoriginal 

Arbitrary

For no reason

Incidentally

Accidentally/By Chance

unpalatable

not pleasant to taste

allay

(v.) to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve

Equivocal

(Adj.) open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain or questionable in nature, misleading

Abounded

exist in large numbers or amounts

Chicanery

(N.) trickery; deception

Obstinate

(Adj.) stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.

Furtive

(Adj.) Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

Suggestive of guilty nervousness

Espouse

(v.) to take up, adopt, or support; to become attached to

to marry

Consummate

(adj.) Extremely skilled or accomplished; complete or perfect

Ingenious

(Adj.) Clever, original, imaginative, and inventive

Resolute

(Adj.) Firmly determined

Elucidate

(V.) to clarify, explain

Pedantic

(Adj.) Excessively concerned with details and formal rules

Confer

(v.) to consult, talk over, exchange opinions

to present as a gift, favor, or honor

Jeer

(v.) to make fun of rudely or unkindly

(n.) a rude remark of derision

Disingenuous

(Adj.) insincere or pretending to know less about something than one really does

Propriety

(n) the state of being proper or suitable. Conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech. Rightness or justness

Apposite

(Adj.) Appropriate, suitable, or relevant

Eclectic

(Adj.) Choosing from various sources or composed of elements drawn from various sources

Replete

full, well supplied

Castigate

(v.) to punish severely; to criticize severely

Laudatory

(Adj.) full of or giving praise

(of speech or writing) expressing praise and commendation.

Grudging

(adj.) reluctant, resentful or not willing to give, grant, or allow something

Inextricable

(adj.) Impossible to disentangle or separate

Impossible to escape from

Incipient

(adj.) in an initial stage, beginning to happen or develop

Nexus

(n.) a link, connection

a connected group or series

the central and most important point or place

Nebulous

(adj.) vague, unclear

in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy

Maverick

(n.) an unorthodox or independent-minded person

(adj.) unorthodox

Intrepid

(Adj.) fearless; adventurous (often used for humorous effect)

Disparate

(adj.) Fundamentally different; not allowing comparison

Aberrant

(adj.) Departing from an accepted standard

deviant, divergent, abnormal

Proliferate

(v.) to rapidly increase; multiply

(of a cell, structure, or organism) to reproduce rapidly

Fastidious

(Adj.) Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

Extirpate

(v.) to tear up by the roots; to destroy totally

Opprobrious

(adj.) damning; extremely critical; disgraceful, shameful

Emanate

(v.) to forth, to come out from a source

inadvertently

(v.) Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly

Repudiate

(v.) To disown, reject, or deny the validity of

Preclude

(v.) To make impossible, prevent, shut out

Vexing

(adj.) Annoying frustrating, worrying

aggrieved

(adj.) distressed, wronged, injured

(The foreman mercilessly overworked his aggrieved employees.)

Calamitous

(adj.) causing great misfortune, disastrous, catastrophic

Incontrovertible

(adj.) Unquestionable, indisputable

Discordant

(adj.) Disagreeable in sound, jarring; lacking in harmony, conflicting

Fallacious

(adj.) False, incorrect, misleading or deceptive

Virtuous

(adj.) Having or showing high moral standards

Scrupulous

(adj.) Diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details

meticulous, careful, assiduous

very concerned to avoid doing wrong

honest righteous

Dismal

Depressing; Dreary

(of a person or a mood) gloomy

(informal) Pitifully or disgracefully bad

Concession

(n.) a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands

compromise, exception, forfeit

a preferential allowance or rate given by an organization

tax concessions

Concede

(v.) to admit something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it

to surrender or yield (something that one possesses)

Mudslinging

(n.) The use of insults and accusations, especially unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent.

"politicians seem to rely on mud-slinging instead of argument"

Substantiate

(v.) Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of

"they found nothing to substantiate the allegations"

Unbridled

(adj.) Uncontrolled, lacking in restraint

Plaudits

(n. pl.) Applause; enthusiastic praise or approval

Extol

(v.) to praise highly

Effusive

(adj.) expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner.

overflowing, emotionally excessive

Prevarication

(n.) Evasion of truth, lie

A priori

(adj.) relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge that proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience.

theoretical, deduced, inferred, assuming

Precocity

(n.) Exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age

the state of the tendency to be precocious

Sanction

(n) official permission or approval

Benign

(adj) marked by gentleness kindness, and graciousness

helpful

imprimatur

(n.) Formal and explicit approval

Derisive

(adj.) expressing contempt, mocking, or ridicule

Sully

(v.) damage the purity or integrity of; defile

Straw Man

(n.) a weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted

(n.) a person regarded as having no substance or integrity.

refuting an argument that the opposition didn't even say
(let's have gun control---> they're taking away our guns)

Unsurpassed

(adj.) As good as or better than any other.

superior, best, unmatched

Relinquish

(v.) To let go, give up

Aggregation

(n.) A large group or collection of people, animals, or things.

Befall

(v.) (Of something bad) to happen someone.

"a tragedy befell his daughter"

Adduced

(v.) cite as evidence

Encumbered

-to weigh, down, burden, impede

-saddle (a person or estate) with a debt or mortgage.

"an estate heavily encumbered with debt"

-fill or block up (a place).

"we tripped over sticks and stones, which encumber most of the trail"

Onerous

(adj.) Burdensome; involving hardship or difficulty

Protracted

(adj.) Extended in time; prolonged

Subsumed

(v.) include or absorb (something) in something else.

"most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories"

Composite

(adj./n.) made up of various parts

Adversarial

(adj.) involving or characterized by conflict or opposition

law

-(of a trial or legal procedure) in which the parties in a dispute have the responsibility for finding and presenting evidence.

"equality between prosecution and defense is essential in an adversarial system of justice"

Continuum

(n.) A continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct

a whole made up of many parts

A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division.

Didactic

(adj.) instructive, designed to teach

Enjoin

(v.) to direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way;

to instruct or urge someone to do something

(law) to prohibit

Ephemeral

(adj.) short-lived

Untenable

(adj.) not capable of being held or defended; impossible to maintain