Princeton Review SAT & Reddit PSAT Vocab

From Princeton Review tutoring ("Digital SAT Manual")

refute

to prove a statement or theory to be wrong or false; disprove (argument)

repudiate

to refuse to accept or be assosciated with (argument)

adhere

to believe in and follow the practices of (agreements and support)

substantiate

to provide evidence to support or prove the truth of (agreements and support)

curtail

to reduce in extent or quantity

preclude

to prevent; to make impossible (rejections and restrictions)

allude

to suggest or call attention to indirectly; to hint at (writing styles)

analogous

comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared

induce

to succeed at influencing or persuading someone to do something (influence and effort)

The pills induce sleep.

disconcerting

causing one to feel unsettled or worried (inconsistency and uncertainty)

vexation

the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried (inconsistency and uncertainty)

congenial

pleasant, friendly, agreeable (praise and positivity)

deference

humble submission and respect (praise and positivity)

viable

capable of working successfully, feasible (praise and positivity)

capitalize

to profit from; to attempt to gain an advantage from an opportunity or situation (descriptions and degrees)

subsumed

included or absorbed into something else

obsolete

no longer produced or used, out of date (presence and occurrence)

He uses obsolete vocabulary from the nineteenth century.

eschew

deliberately avoid using

She eschewed milk.

inertia

a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged

The sloths in Zootopia exhibited inertia.

belie

to deceive by lying; disguise (a nonhuman thing makes something else a lie)

The facts belie the claim.
His smile belied his pain.

attenuate

to reduce

Support from friends attenuates stress.

preempt

to prevent (beforehand)

He took Advil to preempt the pain.

expound

to explain in detail

He expounded his views at length.

propitiate

to appease (make peace); to please

The villagers offered gifts to propitiate the gods.

malign

adjective: evil
He had malign intents.

verb: to speak critically of someone
He maligned my reputation.

discern

perceive or recognize

He could not discern his house through the fog.

extoll

to praise

inestimable

too great to calculate (cannot be estimated)

They found a treasure of inestimable value.

cursory

hasty (brief)

He gave it a cursory glance.

capacious

roomy; spacious

The room was capacious.
He had a capacious mind (he was smart).

overtly

openly

inadvertently

by mistake; accidentally

impending

about to happen; forthcoming

(points to the future)

antecedent

previous (adj)

a thing or event that existed before (noun)

(points to the past)

warranted

justified

His pride is warranted.

sanction

to sanction

penalty, punishment; permission

to penalize, punish; to permit

(two very different meanings!)

rationalize

justify with reasons