Common SAT Words #19

abjure

(v) to reject, renounce

acumen

(n) keen insight

banal

(adj.) dull, commonplace

colloquial

(adj.) characteristic of informal conversation

enfranchise

(v) to grant the vote to

equanimity

(n) composure

fallacious

(adj.) incorrect, misleading

hegemony

(n) domination over others

indefatigable

(adj.) incapable of defeat, failure, decay

mendacious

(adj.) having a lying, false character

officous

(adj.) offering one’s services when they are neither wanted nor needed

paramount

(adj.) greatest in importance, rank, character

penchant

(n) a tendency, partiality, preference

quixotic

(adj.) idealistic, impractical

renunciation

(n) to reject

preponderance

(adj.) superiority in importance or quantity

rescind

(v) to take back, repeal

scurrilous

(adj.) vulgar, coarse

truncate

(v) to shorten by cutting off

vociferous

(adj.) loud, boisterous