SAT Vocab List #4

Appease

(verb) to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment.

Cursory

(adj) going rapidly over something, without noticing details.

Explicit

(adj) fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied.

Frugality

(noun) the quality of being prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness.

Irreproachable

(adj) free from blame; not able to be censured.

Laconic

(adj) using few words; expressing much in few words.

Mundane

(adj) common; ordinary; of or relating to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven.

Piety

(noun) reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations.

Prevalent

(adj) widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.

Pretentious

(adj) characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved.

Repudiate

(verb) to reject as having no authority or binding force.

Replete

(adj) abundantly supplied or provided.

Succinct

(adj) expressed in few words.

Susceptible

(adj) admitting or capable of some specified treatment; accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.

Stupefy

(verb) to put into a state of little or no sensibility; to stun, as with a narcotic, a shock, or a strong emotion.

Tenacity

(noun) the quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; the quality of retaining something.

Transient

(adj) not lasting or enduring; lasting only a short time.

Trifling

(adj) of very little importance.

(noun) foolish delay or waste of time.

Unprecedented

(adj) without previous instance; never before known or experienced.

Untenable

(adj) incapable of being defended; incapable of being sustained or maintained over time; not fit to be occupied, as an apartment, house, etc.