sat vocab

affinity

a natural linking and understanding; empathy

apprise

inform or tell; notify

attest

provide or serve as clear evidence of; certify

conspicuous

clearly visible; clear

convene

come or bring together for a meeting; assemble

discern

recognize or find out; distinguish

disperse

distribute or spread over a wide area; scatter

emanate

issue or spread out from a source; emerge

inexplicable

unable to be explained or accounted for; unaccounable

ingenious

clever, original, and inventive

meticulous

very careful; great attention to detail

misconstrued

interpret wrongly

myriad

a countless or extremely great number; multitude

pristine

in its original condition; unspoilt; immaculate

stymied

prevent or hinder the progress of; impede

ameliorate

to make something bad better; amend

assuage

make unpleasant feeling less intense; alleviate

capacious

having a lot of space inside; roomy; spacious

catalyzing

cause or accelerate something; prompt

corroborate

confirm or give support to; verify

discrepancy

illogical lack of compatibility; inconsistency

eclipsed

deprive of significance or power; overshadow

engender

cause or give rise to a feeling; induce

evince

reveal the presence of a quality; show

placate

make someone less angry and hostile; soothe

precipitating

cause an event to happen suddenly; trigger

predicated

found or base something on; build

promulgated

promote or make widely known; publicize

substantiate

provide evidence to support or prove; validate

superfluous

unnecessary; more than enough; surplus

acquiesce

accept something reluctantly; allow

adroit

clever or skilful; adept

alacrity

brisk and cheerful readiness; enthusiasm

banal

so lacking in originality; boring

exorbitant

unreasonably high price or amount

extemporaneous

spoken or done without preparation

facetious

trying to appear funny inappropriately

fidelity

faithfulnesss to a person or cause

harbinger

a person/thing that signals another;

incongruous

not in harmony with surroundings

noxious

harmful, poisoness, or unpleasant

prudence

the quality of being cautious

sporadic

occurring at irregular intervals

unprecedented

never done or known before

ambivalent

having mixed feelings

abstruse

difficult to understand

amorphous

without clearly defined shape

anachronism

belonging to a different period

conjecture

opinion based on incomplete info

facile

ignoring true complexities

immutable

unchanging over time

ineluctable

unable to be resisted or avoided

insumountable

too great to overcome

irrefutable

impossible to deny or disprove

nebulous

vague or ill defined

presuppose

require as a precondition

repudiate

refuze to accept

tenuous

very week or slight

untenable

not able to be maintained