SAT vocab practice

premeditated (adj)

planned or thought of before hand

fruitless (adj)

failing to achieve desired results

contrived (adj)

being planned in an unnatural manner and does not seem to flow, deliberately created

deceptive (adj)

Misleading

innocuous (adj)

not harmful or offensive

novel (adj)

new and unusual

benign (adj)

gentle and kindly

benevolent

kindly, charitable

inconsequential

not significant

inconspiciouess

not clearly visible or attracting attention

precarious

uncertain or dangerous

Prudently

Making a decision carefully

inadvertently

accidentally

overtly

Opening describing something

Antecedent

an event that existed before

impending

about to happen

perpetual

Everlasting

Reared

Brought up to, nurtured

exploited

make productive of

Undermined

weaken something

converesely

in contrast

Discounted

Take no account of, disregard

Integrity of something

• describes how sound the product is, how free it is from damage and defect

subsequently

signals that something happened after

Disparate

Essentially different in kind

Interchangeable

Able to be changed or replaced by something

Luminous

Full of shining light, bright

Subversive

Seeking to disrupt a set order, disruptive

Profound

Very great and intense emotions

Barring

Except for, if not for

Underscore

To highlight or emphasize something

earnest

serious

concede

to admit something

sanguine

positive

recalcitrant

uncooperative

misanthropic

antisocial, reclusive

deviate

diverge, stray off

contentious

controversial

tenuous

slight, weak

enduring

long, long lasting

Exacerbating

make something worse

preclude

make impossible, prevent from happening

Redress

Make right

demarcate

set the boundaries or limits

reconstituted

having been formed again

conflate

combine

desultory

lacking a plan, purpose

spurious

fake

veritable

acts as an intensifier

ineffectual

does not produce the desired effect

defunct

not used anymore

arcane

only known by a few individuals

extraneous

irrelevant

ambivalence

having contradicting ideas about something