SAT Vocab 301-400

Reckoning

Computation

Extrapolation

Predicting

Actuary

A person who calculates insurance

Embrace

To clasp in the arms

fad

A interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal

Acupuncture

Of inserting fine needle through the skin to cure diseases

Sham

Cheap falseness

Kindle

To start burning

Numbness

Unable to feel anything

Haggle

To annoy or exhaust with wrangling

Attuned

Aware of and responsive to something

Unstinting

Giving or being given freely or generously

Rapacious

Excessively grasping or covetous

Meek

Sleep

Slumber

Sleep

Pittance

A small amount: a meager wager

Clout

Influence; a hard hit

Meddle

Interfere without right

Confederacy

Alliance

Abate

To decrease in force or intensity

Dawdle

To spend time idly

squander

To spend extravagantly

Commanding

Drawing priority; difficult to overcome

Sturdy

Firm, resolute

Fierce

Violently hostile or aggressive in temperament

Snare

Trap

Foretell

To tell beforehand

Scrupulous

Punctiliously exact

Extrinsic

Extraneous; external

Foreseeable

Being such as may be reasonably anticipated

Invaluable

Priceless

Gurgling

To flow in a broken irregular current

Hushed

Calm, quiet

Enfeeble

Deprive of strength

Stupefy

Astonish, astound

Restorative

Having power to restore

Disobedient

Refusing or neglecting to obey

Sluggish

Slow to respond; indolent

Wilt

To grow weak or faint

Preposterous

Contrary to common sense; absurd

Amicable

Characterized by friendly goodwill

Heft

To heave up

Entrench

To place within or surround with a trench for defense

Vernacular

Using a language or dialect native to a region or country

Crux

A puzzling or difficult problem

Liaison

A person who established and maintains communication

Bluster

To talk or act with noisy swaggering threats

Prop

Something that props or sustains

Convoke

To call together to a meeting

Preside

To exercise guidance

Impasse

Deadlock

Jubilant

Feeling or expressing great joy

Discord

Lack of agreement or harmony

Myopic

Nearsighted

Inauguration

An act of inducting into an office

Intrinsic

Belonging to the essential nature

Logistic

Relating to symbolic logic

Latch

A fastener

Ulterior

Going beyond what is openly said or shown

Stark

Rigidly conforming

Raucous

Disagreeably harsh

Lumpish

Tediously slow or dull

Avalanche

A large mass of snow in swift motion down a mountainside

Suspense

Mental uncertainty

Obstinate

Not easily subdued or removed

Barbaric

Relating to a group of people who are alien

Intermission

An interval

Editorial

Relating to an editor or editing

Humongous

Extremely large

Titanic

Having great magnitude or power

Hamper

To restrict the movement by obstacles

Authenticate

To prove to be real

Differentiate

To mark or show a difference in

Anthropology

The science of human beings

Mythic

Fictitious; imaginary

Premiere

A first performance or exhibition

Accolade

A mark of acknowledgment

Insinuate

To suggest in an indirect way

Wean

To accustom to take food otherwise than by nursing

Abominable

Very bad or unpleasant

Corrode

To eat away by degrees

Ameliorate

To make better

Rally

A mass meeting intended to arouse group enthusiasm

Complacent

Marked by self satisfaction

Loconic

Involving or less than sufficient in quantity or extent

Scanty

Limited or less than sufficient in quantity extent

Natal

Relating to birth

Rarefield

Interesting to a select group

Brood

To sit on or incubate

Acquiesce

To accept tacitly or passively

Shrine

A place or object hallowed

Unshackled

To free from shackles

Unwavering

Continuing in a steady way

Poised

Marked by balance or equilibrium

Foster

To give parental care to

Hefty

Quite heavy

Configuration

Relative arrangement of parts

Tailor

Adjust, suit

Resurgence

A rising again into activity

Plethora

Abundance, profusion