An Exhaustive, Painstakingly Overinflated Treatise on the Utter Futility, Pointlessness, and Real‑World Irrelevance of Memorizing Obscure SAT Vocabulary Words That No Living Human Has Uttered Since the 1800s, Yet Somehow We’re Still Expected to Regurgitate Them Like Victorian Parrots for a Test That Claims to Measure ‘College Readiness’ but Mostly Measures Our Ability to Pretend We Care About Words We Will Never Use Again

muddied

made unclear or cloudy, or made confusing and complicated

usurp

take control of power

dissension

strong disagreement

derivative

slope of the tangent line

auspicious

showing or suggesting that future success is likely

galvanizing

the process of applying a protective zinc coating to iron or steel to prevent rust and corrosion

avant-garde

new, experimental, and unorthodox ideas or the people who create them, especially in the arts, literature, and culture

venerable

deserving deep respect and honor because of great age, wisdom, or character

multifarious

having or occurring in a great variety, or being made up of many different elements, parts, or types