SAT vocab 2

Beget

To produce or bring about, often referring to the generation of offspring or ideas.

Calibrate

To adjust or fine-tune a measurement or instrument for accuracy.

Censure

To reprimand or express severe disapproval, typically in an official context.

Colloquial

Characterized by informal or conversational language, often specific to a particular region or group.

Conflate

To combine two or more ideas or concepts into one, often leading to confusion.

Conservator

A person appointed to manage the affairs and assets of another individual, often due to incapacity or legal incompetence.

Convoke

To call together or summon a group, typically for a meeting or assembly.

Dawdle

To waste time or be slow in taking action.

Despoil

The spoils of war after a victory, often referring to the plundering or pillaging of resources or goods.

Disseminate

To spread or distribute information widely.

Doldrums

A state of inactivity or stagnation, often characterized by a period of low spirits or lack of progress.

Eddy

A circular movement of water or air that causes a current to flow in a different direction, often creating a whirlpool effect.

Effectual

Capable of producing a desired effect; effective.

Efficacy

The ability to produce a desired result or outcome; effectiveness.

Embellish

To make something more attractive by adding decorative details or features; to enhance.

Entice

To attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage; to lure.

Ephemeral

Lasting for a very short time; transient.

Evince

to reveal the presence of a quality or feeling; to demonstrate.

Florid

having a red or flushed complexion; elaborate or ornate.

Fetter

a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, figuratively refers to anything that restricts freedom.

Glom

to attach to something (often in a blob like manner)

Glut

an excessively abundant supply or overindulgence in something.

Ignominious

deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

Immured

confined or trapped within walls, often against one's will.

Impel

to drive or urge forward, often with a strong force or motivation.

Inefficacious

not producing the desired effect or outcome.

Inexorable

impossible to stop or prevent; relentless.

Inversion

the act of turning something upside down or reversing its position, often used in grammar or logic.

Laden

heavily loaded or weighed down

Malign

to speak harmful untruths about someone or something; to slander.

Metastasize

to spread disease from one part of the body to another, especially cancer.

Mutable

capable of change or variation

Oscillate

to move or sway back and forth in a rhythmic manner.

Panacea

a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases; an answer to all problems.

Parity

the state of being equal or equivalent, often used in contexts like economics or mathematics.

permutation

a rearrangement of the elements in a particular order or sequence.

Plenipotentiary

a person, especially a diplomat, invested with full power to act on behalf of others.

Prattle

to talk in a foolish or inconsequential way.

Proliferate

to increase rapidly in number or amount.

Promulgate

to make an idea or law known to the public formally and officially.

Rapacious

having an extreme eagerness for greed or taking things by force.

Redress

to set right or remedy a wrong or grievance.

Remonstrate

to make a forcefully reproachful protest or express disapproval

Shingled

to cover or furnish with shingles, often referring to roofs.