SAT HARD VOCAB SENTENCES
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quotidian
She found peace in the ______ rituals of cooking and walking.
credulity
His ______ made him an easy target for scammers online.
impermeable
The jacket was made of ______ material to block the rain.
obsequious
The ______ assistant agreed with everything the boss suggested.
pejorative
The word was used in a ______ sense to insult the group.
protean
Her ______ talent allowed her to move between art forms easily.
fetter
Prison fettered his freedom but could not break his spirit.
cogent
She presented a ______ argument that persuaded the entire panel.
mollify
He sent flowers to ______ her after their argument.
inveterate
He was an ______ traveler who had visited sixty countries.
perplex
The strange symbols continued to ______ even experienced researchers.
turpitude
The crime was an act of moral ______ that shocked the community.
inexorable
The ______ rise in prices was beyond anyone's control.
circumlocution
His long ______ made a simple point maddeningly unclear.
pliable
Young children's minds are ______ and absorb new languages quickly.
surreptitious
He made a ______ exit before the meeting ended.
permeable
Rainwater sinks through ______ rock to form an underground reservoir.
amenity
We especially enjoyed the ______ of the climate on our last holiday.
taciturn
The ______ detective spoke only when he had something to say.
espouse
He publicly espoused a belief in radical economic equality.
pugnacious
He had a ______ personality that led to frequent arguments.
primeval
The forest had a ______ stillness undisturbed for centuries.
acrimony
Her ______ for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
delineate
The diagram helped to ______ the boundaries of each zone.
disheartened
She felt ______ after failing the exam a second time.
fortuitous
Their meeting was purely ______, with no planning involved.
phlegmatic
His ______ response to the crisis kept everyone calm.
obdurate
He remained ______ even as the evidence against him mounted.
quagmire
The paperwork got lost in a ______ of bureaucracy.
exigent
The ______ situation demanded an immediate and firm decision.
diatribe
His lengthy ______ against the policy bored the audience.
laudatory
The speech was so ______ it bordered on flattery.
legerdemain
The conjurer's ______ left the audience completely baffled.
deprecate
He deprecates any praise of his own merits.
rebuff
He was surprised by her quick ______ to his proposal.
subjugation
The report examined the historical ______ of workers under colonial rule.
conformist
As a ______, he followed every trend without question.
apocryphal
The heroic story was widely believed but entirely ______.
expunge
She petitioned the court to ______ the old arrest from her record.
predilection
She had a ______ for rare books and old maps.
distend
The balloon began to ______ as more air was forced inside.
dour
The ______ general barked orders without the faintest smile.
consecrate
The bishop was asked to ______ the new chapel.
epistolary
The novel used an ______ format consisting only of letters.
parsimony
His ______ meant he refused to heat the house in winter.
invective
Politics can raise ______ to a low art.
salutation
She greeted him with a warm ______ and a firm handshake.
capitulate
He finally capitulated and agreed to the terms of the deal.
modulate
A skilled speaker can ______ their voice to hold attention.
consign
She _____ all her old letters to the fireplace.
hedonist
The ______ pursued pleasure above all else in life.
subjugate
Conquerors often sought to ______ the local population.
saccharine
The film was too ______, with no conflict or real drama.
chastise
The coach chastised the player for missing morning practice.
florid
His ______ writing style made even simple ideas seem ornate.
abdicate
The king chose to ______ the throne for personal reasons.
enfranchise
The movement worked to ______ thousands of new voters.
quixotic
His ______ plan to reform the entire system in a month failed.
efficacious
The new drug proved highly ______ in clinical trials.
winsome
The child's ______ smile won the hearts of everyone she met.
pertinacious
The ______ journalist refused to drop the investigation.
sycophant
Every ______ in the office laughed at the boss's bad jokes.
undulate
The hills ______ gently across the wide landscape.
admonish
The teacher admonished the student for disrupting the class.
pert
Her ______ reply surprised everyone with its boldness.
forestall
Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
intimation
She gave no ______ of her true feelings during the meeting.
temerity
She had the ______ to challenge the professor's core assumptions.
corroborate
The witness's testimony helped ______ the suspect's alibi.
inauspicious
The meeting got off to an ______ start.
reclusive
The ______ author rarely granted interviews or made appearances.
propriety
She behaved with impeccable ______ at every formal occasion.
adumbrate
The opening paragraph adumbrates the novel's central conflict.
congruity
The design lacked ______, with clashing colors and shapes.
debauch
Years of excess had begun to ______ his health and judgment.
promulgate
The organization moved to ______ new guidelines on safety.
imprudent
It was ______ to invest life savings in a single stock.
disaffected
______ youth turned away from mainstream institutions.
effulgent
The ______ sunrise filled the valley with golden light.
vapid
The ______ reality show offered nothing of substance.
ostensible
His ______ reason for leaving was the workload.
timorous
The ______ child clung to his mother throughout the party.
usurp
The general attempted to ______ power from the elected president.
genial
The ______ host welcomed every guest with warmth and humor.
plenitude
A ______ of options made the choice difficult.
extol
The speech extolled the virtues of civic responsibility.
abnegation
The monk's life required complete ______ of personal desire.
grandiloquence
His ______ impressed no one who understood the subject.
exhort
The coach exhorted the team to give every last effort.
diffident
The ______ student rarely volunteered answers in class.
irrevocable
Once signed, the agreement would be ______ and binding.
deferential
The junior staff were extremely ______ to senior managers.
confound
Don't ______ the situation by yelling.
guile
The diplomat relied more on ______ than on direct confrontation.
reciprocate
She hoped he would ______ her honesty with his own.
debunk
The scientist debunked the popular myth with clear data.
refract
A glass prism can ______ white light into a visible spectrum of colors.
irreverence
His ______ toward tradition shocked some of his elders.
panacea
A monorail will be a ______ for our traffic woes.
vestige
Not a single ______ of the original building remained.