PRINCETON REVIEW SAT POWER VOCAB: CRAM LIST

from: https://cdn.princetonreview.com/ResourceContent/SAT_2016/books/SAT_Power_Vocab_3ED/SAT_Power_Vocab_Glossary.pdf (you can get this in their vocab book!)

ACUTE

ACUTE

sharp; shrewd; discerning

ADVOCATE

to argue in favor of a position or cause; a person who argues in favor of a position or cause

ALLEVIATE

to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen

AMBIVALENT

undecided; having opposing feelings simultaneously

ANALOGY

a comparison of one thing to another; similarity

ANECDOTE

a short account of an interesting incident

ANOMALY

an unusual occurrence; an irregularity; a deviation

APPREHENSIVE

worried; anxious

ASCERTAIN

to determine with certainty; to find out definitely

BENEVOLENT

generous; kind; doing good deeds

BREVITY

the quality or state of being brief in duration

CANDOR

truthfulness; sincere honesty

CONCEDE

to admit; to acknowledge as true; to yield; to admit defeat

CONSPICUOUS

easily seen; impossible to miss

DEBILITATE

to weaken; to cripple

DEFERENCE

submission to another’s will; respect; courtesy

DENOUNCE

to condemn openly

DESPONDENT

extremely depressed; full of despair

DISDAIN

to regard with contempt

DISPARAGE

to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way

DISTINGUISH

to tell apart; to cause to stand out

DUBIOUS

full of doubt; uncertain

ELOQUENT

well-spoken

EMPIRICAL

relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical

ENCROACH

to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass

EVOKE

to summon forth; to draw forth; to awaken; to produce or suggest

EXPLICIT

clearly and directly expressed

IMPERATIVE

completely necessary; vitally important

IMPLICIT

implied

INDIFFERENT

not caring one way or the other; apathetic; mediocre

INDIGNATION

anger aroused by something perceived as unjust

LAMEN

to mourn

MALICIOUS

deliberately harmful

MALLEABLE

easy to shape or bend

MEDIATION

a settlement between conflicting parties

NOSTALGIA

sentimental longing for the past; homesickness

NOVEL

fresh; original; new

OBSCURE

unknown; hard to understand; dark

OBJECTIVE

unbiased; not prejudiced

OMINOUS

menacing; threatening; portending doom

PERVADE

to be present throughout

PROVOCATIVE

giving rise to action or feeling

PRUDENT

careful; having foresight

RECIPROCATE

to mutually take or give; to respond in kind

RESIGNATION

passive submission; acquiescence

SKEPTICAL

doubting; unconvinced

SUBSTANTIATE

to prove; to verify; to confirm

SUPERFICIAL

on the surface only; shallow; not thorough

UNDERMINE

to impair; to subvert; to weaken by excavating underneath

UNDERSCORE

to underline; to emphasize