AFOQT Vocabulary

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness or ready response

Boon

Benefit or gift

Chagrin

Embarrassment or disappointment

Clemency

Mercy

Dearth

Scarcity or lack of something

Din

Loud, pervasive, continuous noise

Effulvium

Disagreeable or bas-smelling vapor or gas

Facsimile

Exact copy or representation

Furor

Outburst of excitement or disagreement

Gamut

Entire range of possible outcomes or conditions

Guile

Cunning, deceit, or duplicity

Indolence

Laziness

Invective

Insulting or abusive speech

Larceny

Small theft

Maverick

Someone who acts independently instead of in conformance with common organizational or expected behavior

Mores

Established customs or values within a group

Panacea

A cure for all problems or diseases

Parsimony

Stinginess

Paucity

Scarcity of a resource or condition

Pauper

A very poor person

Pittance

A very small amount, usually referring to money

Probity

Integrity, uprightness, honesty

Propinquity

Proximity

Reprobate

A wicked, depraved person

Semblance

Outward appearance

Sycophant

One who flatters a superior in hope of getting preferential treatment

Tacit

Understood or implied without stated

Temerity

Recklessness or audacity

Trepidation

Fear or apprehension

Welter

Confused mass, commotion, or turmoil

Acquiesce

To give in or agree reluctantly

Efface

To erase the features of

Reproach

To scold or rebuke

Repudiate

To reject or deny

Ascetic

Characterized by self-discipline and abstention of indulgence

Banal

Boring

Belligerent

Combative or quarrelsome

Contrite

Genuinely and deeply apologetic or remorseful

Credulous

Gullible

Diffident

Timid or lacking in confidence

Fastidious

Meticulous

Furtive

Secretive

Hackneyed

Overused, unoriginal, or trite

Innocuous

Harmless or insignificant

Irascible

Irritable

Recalcitrant

Stubbornly defiant of authority

Supercilious

Haughty or insultingly patronizing

Taciturn

Untalkative

Ambivalent

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas

Turpitude

Depravity or wickedness

Effervescent

Vivacious and enthusiastic

Ameliorate

Make something unsatisfactory better

Consternation

Anxiety or dismay, especially at something unexpectected

Exculpatory

Tending to clear from charge or guilt

Sophrosyne

Temperance or prudence, opposite of hubris

Ostentatious

Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display

Accede

Agree to a demand, request, or treaty

Hallowed

Made holy or consecrated

Libel

A published false statement that is damaging to one’s reputation

Terse

Neat or effectively concise, sometimes abruptly or curt

Clamber

Climb, move, or get in or out of something in an awkward way

Rarefaction

Reduction in the density of air or gas

Portend

Be a sign or warning that something is likely to happen

Equivocal

Open to more than one interpretation, ambiguous

Picayune

Worthless or petty

Abate

To make something hostile or negative less intense or widespread

Remuneration

Money paid for a work or service

Exhort

To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

Shrewd

Astute

Vacuous

Mindless or lack of thought

Acumen

The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

Mirthful

Full of merry

Torrid

Very hot and dry

Fervor

Intense, passionate feeling

Galvanize

To shock or excite someone into taking action

Rancor

A long-standing bitterness or resentfulness

Iconoclast

Someone who attacks established beliefs

Blithe

Casual or cheerful indifference that is improper

Callous

Showing or having an insensitive disregard for others

Garrulous

Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

Querulous

Complaining in a petulant or whining manner

Cache

A collection of items stored in a hidden or inaccessible place

Acrimonious

Angry and bitter speech

Inclement

Unpleasantly cold or wet weather

Aloof

Not friendly or forthcoming; cold and distant

Monolithic

Large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform organization

Lampoon

Publicly criticize through sarcasm, ridicule, or irony

Obsequious

Obedient or attentive to a servile degree

Expropriate

The action of an authority to take property from an owner for public benefit

Cajole

To persuade someone to do something by coaxing or flattery

Pithy

Concise or forcefully expressive

Gregarious

Fond of company, sociable

Conspicuous

Standing out so as to be clearly visible

Antipathy

A deep-seated feeling of dislike or aversion

Allocute

To make a formal address or statement, usually to a court

Incumbent

1\.) Necessary for a duty or responsibility

2\.) Currently holding office

Indelible

Unable to be removed or forgotten

Palatable

Acceptable or satisfactory

Flappable

Excitable and quick to lose one’s composure

Reify

Make something abstract more concrete and real