SAT VOCAB

SAT vocab

cloying

causing disgust through excessiveness

unscrupulous

lacking morals or restraint

inscrutable

impossible to decipher

fatuous

foolish or silly

feckless

ineffective

perspicacious

having keen perception

fastidious

very careful and analytical

conducive

to make an outcome likely

stratification

split into different groups

burgeoning

flourishing

ambivalence

mixed feelings

ineluctable

inevitable

supposition

assumption

paucity

small amount

unequivocal

leaving no doubt

watershed

a critical turning point

antithetical

big contrast

engender

cause rise to

pervasive

widespread

tenuous

weak

conjecture

hypothesis

surmise

to assume

ephemeral

short lived

moribund

approaching death

mercurial

unable to stand still

precient

showing foresight

credulous

easily fooled

scrupulous

attentive to details

prudent

wise

partisan

supporter of a political party

zealot

fanatic of an ideal

supplant

remove or replace

pragmatic

someone who is practical

polemicist

someone who argues in controversial topics

conducive

making certain situations possible

cogitation

the act of thinking deeply over something

inviolate

unaltered or undamaged

belies

contrasts

conveyance

transportation

comportment

behavior

coxcombical

foolish

censure

express disapproval

adulatory

excessive praise

florid

red or flushed

erroneous

wrong

pedantic

overly concerned with small issues

capricious

emotionally swaying

lithe

supple or flexible

pernicious

dangerous

furnished

provided or supplied