SAT VOCABULARY [ONGOING]

balk

to stop

ballad

love song

banal

dull

bane

burden

bard

a poet

bashful

shy

battery

a device that stores power // assault

beguile

trick/decieve

behemoth

very large/powerful

benevolent

doing good

benign

favorable

bequeath

to give

berate

scold

bereft

without

beseech

beg

bias

tendancy to something

bilk

cheat

blandish

coax with flattery

blemish

flaw/imperfection

blight

a disease

boisterous

loud/energetic

bombastic

confident/pompous

boon

gift/blessing

bourgeois

middle class

brazen

bold

brusque

short

buffet

force // food on table

burnish

polish

buttress

hold up

wallow

helpless

wane

decrease in size

wanton

undisciplined

whimsical

imaginative

wily

cunning

winsome

charming

wistful

yearning

wizened

shrunken

wrath

anger

nadir

lowest point

nascent

coming into existent

nebulous

vague

nefarious

villanous

negligent

careless

neophyte

young/inexperienced

nocturnal

during night

noisome

unpleasant to smell

nomadic

hunter-gatherers

nominal

insignificant

nonchalant

indifference

nondescript

lacking distinctive character

notorious

widely known for (negative connotation)

novice

beginner

noxious

harmful

nuance

slight variation

nurture

assist

ubiquitous

existing everywhere

umbrage

resentment

uncanny

supernatural

unctuous

smooth

undulate

move in waves

upbraid

scold

usurp

seize by force

utilitarian

relating to usefulness

utopia

an imaginary place of perfection

garish

bad taste

garrulous

talkative

genial

friendly

gluttony

overindulgence in food

goad

provoke

gourmand

someone fond of eating and drinking

grandiloquence

lofty, pompous language

grandiose

large scale

gratuitous

uncalled for

gregarious

sociable

grievous

hurtful

guile

deceitful

hackneyed

unoriginal

hallowed

revered

hapless

unlucky

harangue

speech

hardy

robust

harrowing

distressing

haughty

arrogant

hedonist

one who believes pleasure should be the primary pursuit of humans

hegemony

domination

heinous

wicked

heterogeneous

varied/mixed

hiatus

a gap

hierarchy

system with ranked groups

hypocrisy

pretending to believe what someone does not

hypothetical

assumed/supposed to be true