SAT Vocabulary

Supercilious

Acting like one is above everyone else

Pompous

Irritatingly Self-important

Placate

To calm

Decorous

Pokite and restrained

Mendacious

Lying

Tenuous

Very weak or slight

Irradicable

Impossible to eradicate

Assiduous

Showing great care

Entrenched

Difficult to change

Saccharine

Excessively sweet/emotional

Untoward

Inconvenient

Accusatory

Making accusations

Sedentary

Tend to be too inactive

Quotidian

Occuring every day

Affectations

behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.

Derivative

Imitate another person’s work and is disapproved

Rejuvenation

The act/process of bringing back vigor

Disillusions

Disappointed from finding out that something is not as good as one thought it to be