SAT Vocab

Mellifluous

Sweetly, flowing

Expiation

Ending, expiring

Garrulous

Too talkative

Fracas

Noisy quarrel

Covetous

Eagerly desirous

Subsume

Include under a rule

Inured

Accustomed to, adapted

Bereft

Rob or dispossess of something

Cordial

warm and sincere

Fecund

fertile

Pusillanimous

Cowardly, craven

Rebuff

snub, ignore

Benign

kind and gentle

Tractable

easily controlled or guided

Provident

frugal, looking to the future (money)

Intransigence

unwillingness to compromise, stubborness, intractability

Rivet

fix, fasten, secure metal pin

Immutable

unchangeable

Intrepid

fearless, brave, undaunted

Serration

having a toothed edge

Highbrow

person with superior tastes

Mettle

Quality of endurance or courage

Peripatetic

wandering

Summarily

briefly, without delay

Propitious

Auspicious, presenting favorable circumstances

Fallacious

based on a mistaken belief

Baneful

causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive

Feckless

Lacking purpose or vitality, ineffective, careless

Tenacity

firmness, persistency, adhesiveness, tending to hang on

Penury

extreme poverty

Volatile

changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable, explosive

Avow

admit, declare openly

Mince

pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize

Supersede

take the place of

Inane

Silly, senseless

Cursory

quick, hurried

Indelible

that cannot be rubbed out

Broach

Bring up, announce, begin to talk about

Savant

person of great learning

Turpitude

wickedness, shamefulness

Incorrigibility

Cannot be cured or corrected

Inculcate

Fix firmly by repetition.

Sermon

reproving a person for his faults

Paradigm

a model, example, or pattern

Revere

to have deep respect for

Salacious

obscene

Coeval

of the same period, coexisting

Stigma

mark of shame or disgrace

Contentious

argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome

Seminal

like a seed constituting a source, originative

Ephemeral

lasting for a very short time

Magnanimous

generous and forgiving

Obdurate

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or actions

Perfunctory

acting routinely with little interest or care

Ubiquitous

present, appearing, or found everywhere

Taciturn

silent, not talkative

Enervate

to weaken or drain of energy

Sagacious

wise, perceptive, and showing good judgement

Aberration

a departure from what is normal, usually unwelcome

Laconic

concise, using few words, to the point