SAT VOCAB #102

Demographic

Related to population, balance

Leverage

Power or ability to get things accomplished

Prohibitive

Very expensive

Rhetoric

Persuasive language

Repository

Place to deposit

Insolvent

Poor, bankrupt

Breadth

Width, extent

Nihilism

Belief in nothing, anarchy

Slag

Glassy residue from smelting metal dross waste matter

Seasoned

Experienced

Finale

Conclusion, concluding part

Lank

Long and thin

Shoot

New growth from a plant

Deride

To belittle, to make fun of

Takeoff

Burlesque act of leaving the ground

Absolute

Complete totally unlimited having complete power certain not relative

Subaltern

Subordinate

Anchor

Secure or fasten firmly, be fixed in place

Culinary

Relating to cooking or kitchen

Centripetal

Tending toward the center

Edible

Able to be eaten

Devolve

Deputize pass or be passed to others(Power, work, or property)

Soporific

Causing sleep or drowsiness

Enigmas

Puzzles

Resentment

Indignation, bitterness, displeasure V. resent: feel anger about

Onomatopoeia

A word which sounds like its meaning

Exhilarate

To excite

Devious

Cunning

Felicity

Happiness, appropriateness(of remark, choice, etc.)

Quorum

Minimal number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

Impious

Irreverent, disrespectful

Embed(Imbed)

Enclose place in something fix firmly in a surrounding mass

Remote

Distant in manner, aloof

Academic

Related to a school not practical or directly useful

Reviled

Maligned, rejected harshly

Festive

Joyous celebratory relating to a feast or festival

Docket

Program as for trial book where such entries are made list of things to be done

Rue

To regret

Icon

Religious image, idol

Dynamite

An explosive

Swear

Word

Surreptitious

Done secretly, secret, furtive, sneaky, hidden

Truculence

Stubbornness

Levee

Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

Grouse

Complain fuss grumble grouch N:Plump chicken like game bird

Secession

Withdrawal

Numismatist

Person who collects coins

Absolve

Pardon (an offense)

Tundra

Frozen land

Bridle

Harness fitted about a horse’s head (Used to restrain) curb check