LSAT Vocab Building

Premeditated

Planned

Presuppose

Precondition/Necessitates/Implies/assumes

Deterrant

Disocurages

Preponderance

Dominance, bulk, majority

Revitalize

Regenerate

Dispense

Distribute

Impetus

motivation, momentum, impluse

Discretion

Caution; the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information.

Tentative

not certain or fixed; provisional.

Retrospect

a survey or review of a past course of events or period of time.

qualifies

restircts/limits

observed phenomenon

something that happened for eg, we elected trump for president

Did not obtain

Did not happen

Thesis

Thesis is an argument. It doesn't need to be defended with another argument but with an evidence

Intercepts

Blocks

Underlie

Be a significant cause or basis of something

Precede / Predate

Came before

Suceed

Came after

Potent

Powerful influence, affect

Repression

suppression, control, dominance

Subjective

Own personal opinion or thoughts

Objective

Impartial of one's own thoughts or unbiased.

Sardonic

Mocking, synical, sarcastic

Cognizance

Awareness

Heretofore

before now. Ex: "diseases that heretofore were usually confined to rural areas"

Insurgent

A person who rises in revolt against a constituted authority. Rebel/Revolutionary

Promulgate

promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).

Disposition

a person's inherent qualities of mind and character; a habitual inclination to do or not to do something. Ex, Inclined to smoke.

Resistance

the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.

Dissent

• Disagreement

• The expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.

Subsidization

the act of a government or other authority providing financial assistance to help with the cost of a particular service, product, or industry, thereby lowering the price for consumers or supporting the entity itself.

Contention

the act of arguing or expressing disagreement, often involving a dispute over a matter of opinion.