sat vocab 🤓

vindicate

free from blame

remit

(v.) to send or hand in (as money); to cancel (as a penalty or punishment), forgive, pardon; to lessen, diminish; to put off, postpone, defer

engender

to cause, to produce, to create

ascribe

to assign or refer to

pernicious

having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

abate

to lessen

clandestine

secret

wily

clever; deceptive

maladriot

awkward, clumsy

stolid

unemotional; lacking sensitivity

recalcitrant

uncooperative; disobedient

congenial

like-minded; agreeable

inscribe

engrave; write

paucity

scarcity

insolence

rude behavior

joviality

cheerfulness

shrewd

(s) sharpness; good judgment

rancor

bitterness; hatred

inanity

silly; nonsensical

acumen

(a) sharpness; good judgment

analogous

similar; related

disparate

different; not allowing for comparison

corroborate

support

assiduously

showing great care and perseverance

appease

make peace/fulfill

tenuous

weak, flimsy, thin

ostensibly

apparently or seemingly

fortuitously

happening by chance or accident

despondently

in a hopeless or dejected manner

buoyed

uplifted?

marred

disfigured, impaired

temerity

excessive confidence, audacity

diffidence

shyness, modesty

portend

foreshadow

forestall

prevent something from happening ahead of time; anticipate, fend off

edict

an official order or proclamation issued by an authority

quandary

a state of uncertainty or perplexity

banal

boring, unoriginal

enigmatic

mysterious

gregarious

social

solicitous

showing interest or concern

innocuous

harmless; safe

hyperbolize

exaggerate