SAT Vocab

Preclude

To make impossible, prevent something from happening.

Ornate

Complex Shape with intricate Patterns.

Admonish

Warn someone of something that can be avoided

Soporific

Tending to cause drowsiness

Ephemeral

Lasting for a long time

Incremental

An increase or addition on a fixed scale

Nuanced

Subtle amounts of meaning and expression.

Prevelant

Important

Servile

Showing willingness to please others

Petulant

Childishly sulky.

Overweening

Showing excess pride or confidence.

Modulated

Vary the strength, tone, or pitch

Concede

Admit to something that is valid after denying it.

Repudiate

Refuse to accept or be associated

Ratify

Sign or give formal consent to something

Gaunt

Leaning appearance

Effusion

A sudden, unrestrained expression of feelings or a physical outpouring, such as smoke from a volcano

Conscripted

Enlist into armed services

Osmosis

The process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.

Providential

Occurring at a favorable time

Ineffable

too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

Ancillary

Providing necessary support the primary activities of an operation.

Alacrity

Brisk and cheerful and readiness.

Aboveboard

legitimate, honest opinion.

Recant

Say that no longer holds a belief.

Relegate

Consign or dismiss to an inferior rank

Fete

Honor or entertain someone lavishly

Lament

Express sorrow and regret

Surmised

Suppose something is true without it having evidence to admit it;

Contingent

Subject to change

Emulate

Match or Surpass by imitation

Renege

Go back on a promise or contract.

Buttress

for a building to provide support.

Prescient

Having knowledge of events prior to them happening.

Incongruous

Not in harmony or keeping up with the surroundings or other aspects of something.

Repudation

Rejection of an Idea

Quixotic

Someone who is idealistic and romantic

Meridian

Highest Point.

Enumerate

To list or name things one by one

Hew Out

To cut and change something of solid material

Permeate

Spread through and fill something

Abstruse

Difficult to understand

Interpolation

Inserting material into text, altering it’s meaning

Extrapolation

Assuming Something based off of existing trends that may continue

palpitate

shake or tremble

Discordant

Harsh judging or diagreement

Scrupulous

Someone who pays close attention to details.

Uniquivocal

No doubt

anachronistic

belonging to another time period

ineluctable

unable to be resisted or avoided

Emblematic

Something that represents a symbol

Proponent

Someone who advocates for something

Conflate

combine two ideas to one

Epitomize

To be a perfect example of

Lambaste

Criticize something harshly.

Substantiate 

Help provide evidence or back up

Prognosticate

Predict a future event

Instaniated

To represent something by a specific instance or event

Obfuscated

Render something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

Repudiate

Refuse something

Inexorable

Impossible to stop or prevent.

Incongruous

Not in harmony of surroundings or in agreement

Incorrigble

Someone whos tendencies are not corrected or reformed.

Exacerbate

Make a problem worse

Spurious

Not what it appears to be, false.

Didactic

Intended to teach something, usually a moral lesson

Galvanize

Shock or spur someone into action

Explicable

Able to be accounted for or understood.

Circumspection

The quality of being wary and unwilling to do somthing

attrition

Weaking something slowly

Replicability

Able to be easily copied

Foments

Instigate or stir up

Abridges

Shorten a piece without losing sense.

Pervades

To spread through and be present in all parts of something

supersedes

Take place of an authoritarian position.

emissaries

Ambassador, someone sent out on a mission

incipient

In the initial stage, beginning to happen or develop.

Conjectures

An opinion based of incomplete information

Indicies

A number that comes from a series of observations

Pretextu

a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.