26-50 SAT Harder Vocabulary

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Flagrant

adj. shocking because of being so bad and so obvious

Forbearance

n. the quality of being patient and being able to forgive someone or control yourself in a difficult situation

Fortuitous

adj. (esp. of something to your advantage) happening by chance

Fractious

adj. tending to argue, fight, or complain, and hard to control

Fetter

v. to keep someone within limits or stop them from making progress

Garrulous

adj. having the habit of talking a lot, esp. about unimportant things

Gourmand

n. a person who enjoys eating large amounts of food

Grandiloquent

adj. A grandiloquent style or way of using language is complicated in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important

Gratuitous

adj. not necessary; with no reasonable cause

Goulash

n. a dish originally from Hungary consisting of meat cooked in a sauce with vegetables and paprika (= a red spice)

Hegemony

n. (especially of countries) the position of being the strongest and most powerful and therefore able to control others

Heterogeneous

adj. consisting of different parts or types

Hapless

adj. unlucky

Hoard

v. to collect a large supply of something, more than you need now, often because you think you will not be able to get it later

Hokey

adj. too emotional or artificial to be believed

Idiosyncratic

adj. having strange or unusual habits, ways of behaving, or features

Impecunious

adj. having very little money

Inchoate

adj. only recently or partly formed, or not completely developed or clear

Incumbent

adj. officially having the named position

Intransigent

adj. refusing to change your opinions or behavior

Jubilant

adj. feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of a success

Jacaranda

n. any of a genus (= group of related plants) of tropical American trees with attractive, usually purple flowers

Jumbotron

n. a very large video screen like those used in sports stadiums (= large areas of land with rows of seats and often no roof where people watch sports)

Jabber

v. to speak or say something quickly in a way that is difficult to understand

Juxtapose

v. to put things that are not similar next to each other