SAT word list 2023-2024

aggrandizement

aggrandizement

increase power in advancement

hamlet

small village, cluster of homes in the countryside

trepedation

a trembling, agitating fear

euphemism

The use of "Nice" words instead of mean ones. (Ex: With child rather than pregnant or passed away instead of died)

(v) to hamper

to get in the way of

(v) to relegate

to put away or aside

(v) to emenate

to flow out

Truculent

Savage, cruel, defiant

sinuous

Winding, bending in and out

nostalgic

homesickness, longing for the past

Figment

Something imagined, an invention of your mind

Invocation

Prayer

Obsequies

Funeral rites

Alabaster

White, translucent, hard substance

(v) To extol

To glorify, to praise highly

(v) To precipitate

To cause, to happen before expected

(v) To carp

To nag in a nit picky way

Extrinsic

External, outward, not inherent

Culpable

Blameworthy, deserving of blame

Inextricable

Not solvable, incapable of being disentangled.

Chicanery

Trickery, sharp deception

Fiasco

Total or ridiculous failure

mummery

ceremonies regarded as ridiculous, hypocritical

advisement

careful consideration

(v) to capitulate

to surrender on certain terms

(v) to coerce

to force (someone or something)

(v) to alienate

to set apart by ill will

Mordant

Sarcastic, biting, caustic

inexortable

relentless, not moving by pleas

serapie

angelic, heavenly

gamet

entire range, extent of

compendium

brief form, summary, or sylabus

bombast

impressive but meaningless language

platitude

a tired, trite old saying

to gainsay

to deny, to contradict

to commute

to substitute a lesser thing for a greater

to hoot

to shout in disapproval

futile

useless, unimportant

commmendatory

worthy of praise or of regard

loquacious

talkative, given to continual talking