SAT Vocab Lists 47 - 48 Synonyms

commodious

capacious, ample, serviceable

declivity

declination, descent

diatribe

castigation, invective, harangue, tirade

dither

agitation, clamor, fluster, fuss

fanaticism

devotion, dogma, infatuation, passion, tenacity, zealotry

forestalled

anticipated, averted, hindered, precluded, thwarted

frenetic

distraught, overwrought, rabid, unbalanced

grisly

gruesome, lurid, macabre

indigent

destitute, impecunious

jaunty

animated, buoyant, dapper, dashing, impish, playful, swaggering

kudos

acclaim, credit, distinction, honor, laudation, praise, raves

maverick

beatnik, bohemian, nonconformist, radical

mutinous

anarchistic, dissident, insurrectionary, rebel

perennial

constant, incessant, perpetual, unremitting

Philistine

boorish, crude, immodest, obscene, scatological, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar

precipice

bluff, cliff, crag

rectitude

decency, goodness, integrity, morality, virtue

sanguine

optimistic, hopeful, sure

staid

earnest, grave, sober, solemn

verdant

flourishing, fresh, grassy, leafy, lush, verdurous

amulet

lucky piece, talisman

dissolution

disunion, demise, discontinuation, termination

ignoble

abject, mean, sordid

illicit

unlawful, illegitimate

infernal

hellish, diabolical, fiendish

knoll

ascent, bluff, dune, hillock, mount

magnate

bigwig, chief, financier, mogul, notable, tycoon

malefactor

con, culprit, delinquent, rapscallion, rogue, ruffian, scoundrel, transgressor

malfeasant

malefactor, culprit, ruffian, thief

matriarchy

n/a

multifarious

assorted, diversified, multitudinous, myriad, varied

omnipotent

almighty, divine, godlike, mighty, supreme, unlimited, unrestricted

pinnacle

apex, apogee, climax, peak, summit, vertex, zenith

potent

commanding, impressive, mighty, robust, trenchant

preeminence

authority, dominance, preponderance, supremacy

retrograde

withdrawing, receding, backward

subjective

biased, idiosyncratic, personal, prejudiced

translucence

limpidity, transparency

unobtrusive

humble, meek, modest, restrained, subdued, unostentatious, unpretentious

vitriolic

antagonistic, biting, corrosive, harsh, sharp