SAT Vocabulary Set 1

Part 1 of SAT Vocab sets

Untenable

not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection (adj.)

Anodyne

1. A painkilling drug or medicine (noun)

2. Not likely to provoke dissent or offense, often deliberately so (adj.)

Truculent

Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggresively defiant (adj.)

Preclude

prevent from happening; make impossible (verb)

Redress

1. Remedy or set right an undesirable or unfair situation (verb)

2. Remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance (noun)

Fiat

A formal authorization or a proposition; a decree (noun)

Propitious

Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable (adj.)

Perfidious

Deceitful and untrustworthy (adj.)

Actuate

1. Cause a machine or a device to operate (verb)

2. Cause someone to act in a particular way; motivate (verb)

Contrition

The state of feeling remorseful and penitent (noun)

Cessation

The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end (noun)

Unassailable

Unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated

Impenitent

Not feeling shame or regret about one’s actions or attitudes (adj.)

blase

Unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before (adj.)

Impudent

Not showing due respect to another person; impertinent (adj.)

Mercurial

1. Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind (adj.)

2. Of or containing the element mercury (adj.)

3. A drug or other compound containing mercury (noun)

Libertine

1. A person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters (noun)

2. A person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker (noun)

3. Characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters (adj.)

4. Freethinking in matters of religion (adj.)

Approbation

Approval or praise (noun)