91-180 (+ selected previous) SAT Vocab Words

Kowtow

acts in an excessively subservient manner

Labyrinthine

complicated, complexing, or maze-like

Lambent

glowing, gleaming, or flickering radiance

Languid

slow and relaxed movements for physical exertion effort

Libation

a drink poured as an offering to a deity

Lineage

lineal descent from ancestor

Loquacious

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given to excessive talking

Ludicrous

laughable because of obvious absurdity

Lugubrious

exaggeratedly or effectively mournful

Luminary

one who is notable in a particular field

Maelstrom

powerful whirlpool

Manacle

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handcuff for restraint

Masticate

to chew or to soften by crushing

Mausoleum

a large elaborate tomb

Mellifluous

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smoothly flowing or sweet

Metamorphosis

a transformation or a marked alteration

Monolith

a single large stone often in a form of a column or monument

Nadir

the lowest point

Nocturnal

pertaining to the night or active at night

Nodule

a small lump

Obdurate

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hard or unmoved by persuasion

Obsequious

servile or submissive

Opulent

demonstrating great wealth or lavish

Oscillate

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move or swing back and forth

Ostracize

 to exclude from a group or banished

Ovation

enthusiastic display of approval or applause

Panorama

a wide unbroken view

Paraphernalia

 personal belongings or equipment

Parish

an outcast

Parochial

relating to a church perish or limited in scope

Penurious

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stingy, relating to great poverty

Pilfer

to steal things of little value

Pinion

restraint someone or the outer part of a bird’s wing

Pinnacle

the most successful point; the culmination, peak

Plummet

to plunge or drop straight down

Pogrom

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an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group

Polyglot

speaking several languages, multilinguist.

Posh

elegant and fashionable

Potable

suitable for drinking

Precarious

dangerous, risky, lack in security or stability

Progeny

descendant or offspring

Projectile

a missile or something thrown

Promontory

a point of high land that juts into a large body of water

Prostrate

lying flat or faced down

Pugilist

fighter or boxer

Pulchritude

physical beauty

Queue

 a waiting line of people or vehicles

Ravenous

hungry or very eager

Recalcitrant

stubbornly restrictive or to restraint

Remorse

regret to have doing something wrong

Remuneration

money paid for work or a service

Rendezvous

 a meeting planned at a certain time and place

Replicate

to repeat, copy, or duplicate

Reverberate

(of a loud noise) repeated several times as an echo ex: screaming into a cave

Reverie

a day dream; the condition of being lost in thought

Roster

a list of names

Ruminate

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to ponder or to think over

Salutary

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promoting health or beneficial

Sangfroid

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poise, calmness especially under strained

Satiated

fully fed fully satisfied

Saturnine

gloomy or surly

Scintillate

to sparkle or to flash

Sediment

matter that settles to a bottom of a liquid

Seraph

an angel

Sibilant

making a hissing sound

Silhouette

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a dark outline against a light background

Sinewy

strong and firm or tough

Somnambulist

a sleepwalker

Soporific

Causing sleep

Spectrum

Wide range or sequence

Symposium

 a meeting to discuss a particular topic

Taciturn

disinclined to talk or silent

Tantalize

 to tease by keeping something out of reach

Tendril

 a coiling part of a climbing plant which served to attach it to a support

Timorous

easily frightened or timid

Titanic

huge power roll

Tortuous

winding or twisting

Transpose

to reverse the order or place of

Tributary

a stream or river flowing into a larger stream or river

Truculent

 savage or fierce

Truncated

cut off or shortened

Valor

courage or bravery

Verve

energy or liveliness

Vie

 strive, compete, contend

Vintage

classic, outstanding, old

Virtuoso

a person highly skilled in a field, particularly music or art

Votary

a devoted follower or worshiper

Wanderlust

 a strong desire to travel

Whet

 to sharpen or to stimulate

Xenophobia

fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

halcyon

calm or peaceful

amalgam

a mixture of different elements

ambrosial

delicious, fragrant, divine

bonafide

made in good faith

gossamer

something light or delicate

gyrate

revolve around a point or axis

escalate

increase rapidly

circumvent

to find a way around an obstacle

exodus

a mass departure of people, especially emigrants

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gregarious

living in groups or social