Week 1 SAT Vocab

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Draconian

(adj) very strict laws, rules, and punishments. Think laws “written in blood”

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Laconic

(adj) very concise. Think Spartans who didn’t have time for long speeches

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Spartan

(adj) plain, simple, rigorous, austere. Think David Goggins

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Halcyon

(adj) golden time of untroubled happiness & tranquility. Think a calm after a storm

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Sophistry

(n) a plausible but deliberately misleading or false argument designed to deceive someone

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Chimerical

(adj) scheme or claim that can only be fantastical (or product of unrestrained fantasy)

Test writers typically associate ______ with once-promising medical advances that were never fully realized and were thus chimerical.

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Ostracize

(v) to deliberately exclude from a group. Think French citizens against Nazis

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Impecunious

(adj) poor or not wealthy. Think Romans using cows (____) as currency - no ____ = no wealth

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Nefarious

(adj) famous for being wicked; villainous. Think Dr. _____ from minions

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Jovial, Jocular

(adj) good humored; cheerful. Think “____ old St. Nicholas”

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Dirge

(n) a funeral hymn; a slow, mournful musical composition. Think medieval Christians paying respects

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Maudlin

(adj) excessively sentimental behavior. Think Mary Magdalene weeping as Christ was taken down from the cross

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Quixotic

(adj) foolish and impractical pursuit of noble but unattainable ideals.

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Pandemonium

(adj) a wild uproar. Think 9/11

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Martinet

(n) a strict disciplinarian; a person who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules. Think drill sergeant

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Fiasco

(n) a complete failure. Think Fyre Festival