sat list 6

Elusive

Difficult to find, capture, grasp, understand, or define; cleverly or skillfully evasive.

Saccharine

Artificially sweet; overly and insincerely sweet or sentimental.

Discernment

Good judgment, especially in appraising quality or in understanding the true meaning of something.

Fortuitous

Happening as a result of an accident or a random, coincidental event, and having a happy or fortunate result.

Profuse

Abundant; extravagant; done freely and in large amounts.

Condone

To disregard or overlook something illegal or objectionable; to pardon or forgive.

Ambivalent

Holding two different, conflicting feelings about the same thing at the same time; unsure.

Reproach

To blame or censure; a cause of blame or censure; to find fault with.

Venerate

To honor, respect, revere; to regard with respect tinged with awe.

Insipid

Dull, uninteresting; tasteless.

Heresy

Beliefs expressed in opposition to or in disagreement with the accepted beliefs of a religion or social/political order.

Retract

To take back, revoke, or withdraw; to draw back within oneself.

Cryptic

Puzzling; difficult to understand; purposefully confusing.

Tantamount

Equivalent to; practically the same as.

Juxtapose

To place side by side, especially for the purpose of comparison.