SAT vocab - prep

SAT sophisticated vocabulary - good to know!

discernible

perceivable

repudiate

reject/deny/revoke

recant

reject/deny/revoke

disconcerting

unsettling

imperceptible

unnoticeable

strenuously

with lots of force

innocuous

unharmful

delegate

pass responsibility or task to another

elusive

difficult to find/achieve

imminent

happening soon

to waive

to stop enforcing

to concede

to admit something is true after thinking otherwise

refute

disprove

latent

dormant

tenuous

lacking support

nuance

slight distinction

posit

put forward as fact

conjecture

conclusion based on insufficient info (assumption)

ornamental

for decoration

obscure

unknown, not understood

grapple with

try hard to solve a problem

to surmise

to conclude with little evidence / assume

contrive

devise / scheme

disparate

dissimilar

paucity of

lack of

profusion of

lots of

verisimilitude

appearance of truth / reality

Subsequently

Afterwards

to conceptualize

to form an idea of

infallible

accurate

lucrative

profitable

tedious

boring

proponent of

supporting of

supplement to

addition to

buttress

support / defend

to disengage

to withdraw

antecedent

previous

impending

approaching

perpetual

endless

to sanction

to officially approve / enact

to postulate

to suggest a theory

to substantiate

to provide evidence in support of

That being said

*contrast*

tenuous

vulnerable / uncertain

enduring

lasting

contentious

causing disagreement

conspicuous

obvious

prudent

wise, with good judgement

cordial

friendly

inadvertently

unintentionally

to exacberate

to worsen

to redress

to compensate for

to epitomize

to exemplify

to preclude

to prevent

to thwart

to prevent

tentative

unproven