SAT vocab and grammar

Underscores

Emphasizes or highlights “The book really underscores the topic of slime.”

Overshadows

Be less noticeable

Belies

Contradicts

Forestalls

Prevents

Idiosyncratic

Uniqueness

Ambivalence

Having contradictory feelings/doubt

Perspicacity

Insight

Reverence

Insight

Effusiveness

enthusiasm

Contempt

Strong Dislike

negligible

Insignificant/ smal/ unimportant

Inevitable

going to happen

commonplace

ordinary/widespread

Pernicious

harmful

Prodigious

Extremely impressive

Capricous

Impulsive/ Unexpected chances in behavior or attitude

Evince

Reval/show

Repudiate

Reject

Obfuscated

Confusing

thwarted

derailed

Refute

To prove a theory to be false or incorrect

Corroborate

To confirm Orr give support to a statement

Accentuate

Emphasize or highlight (making something more noticeable)

Palpable

Able to be touch to felt, Obvious

Outsized

Unusually large, or greater than expected

Repudiate

Prevent something from happening

Preclude

To prevent something from happening, to make it impossible or unlikely

Vindicate

To clear from criticism, to justify or prove right

Scrupulous

Diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details

prudent

showing good judgement, often used in financial matters.

diminutive

small, "Next to his rivals, he seemed like a physically weak and diminutive figure."

contentious

controversial or related arguing