SAT practice words

Buttress

Support, strengthen, fortify, reinforce

Dogmatic

Opinionated, insistent, not open minded

Contingent

Subject to chance, accidental, conditional

Or: group, party, delegation

Innocuous

Harmless, not offensive, innocent

Untenable

Insupportable, indefensible, unjustifiable, illogical

Concur

Agree, coincide, happen simultaneously, be in accord

Saturated

Fully supplied with, full, soaked

Constituents

Components/ ingredients / part of

Mitigate

Reduce, diminish, lessen, weaken

Impending

About to happen, approaching, imminent

Perpetual

Eternal, forever lasting, repeated, incessant

Peripheral

Outlying, outer, border, fringe

Haphazard

Unorganized, random, unplanned 1 accidental 1, aimless

Hinder

Obstruct, impede, inhibit set back

Rudimentary

Basic, primitive, simple, elementary

Surmise

Guess, infer, deduce, suspect

Contrive

Manufacture, orchestrate, engineer a way

Abase

To humiliate or degrade

Abate

Reduce, lessen

Abdicate

Give up a position of leadership.

Abet

Aid, help, encourage

Abhor

Hate, detest

Advent

Arrival or creation of something

Ambiguity/ambiguous

Mixed feelings, uncertainty, ambivalent, arguable

Ameliorate

Improve or make better

Analogous

Similar but not identical

Candid

Direct, blunt, truthful, straight forward

Circumvent

Find a way around

Conspicuous

Easily noticed /standing out

Contentious

Causing disagreement or debate, controversial

Corroborate

Provide evidence for, to back up a claim

Deliberation

Careful consideration or discussion

Deviate

To move away from a set path or norm

Disparate

Contrasting, different, unlike, unconnected

Eloquent

Persuasive, expressive & articulate in speech or writing

Elusive

Hard to find or understand

Fruitless

Failing to achieve desired results

Latent

Present, but not active, dormant

Misanthropic

Disliking people or society

Obsolete

Rare/uncommon / no longer used

Omnipotent

Almighty & allpowerful

Onset

Beginning or early stages

Paucity

Scarcity, lack of

Postulate

To assume or propose a theory

Pragmatic.

Practical & realistic

Precarious

Unstable, uncertain

Preclude

To prevent from happening

Profusion

Large quantity of something

Prudently

In a wise, careful manner

Redress

To set right, remedy or fix

Reprieve

Temporary relief or delay

Sanguine

Optimistic or hopeful

Tenuous

Weak insubstantial

Ubiquitous

Present everywhere