SAT Vocab 25-26

Adulation (N)

Extreme praise or admiration

Agile (Adj)

Characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace

Augment (V)

To make greater or to supplement

Docile (Adj)

Easily managed, obedient, passive

Enhance (V)

To make better, to improve

Entreaty (N)

A plea, an earnest request

Eulogy (N)

Praise or tribute

Fitful (Adj)

Irregular

Gratuitous (Adj)

Given freely, unwarranted

Humane (Adj)

Kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate

Introspective (Adj)

The quality of examining one’s own mind or thoughts

Luxuriant (Adj)

Abundant in growth, very fertile

Miser (N)

One who lives in wretched circumstances to save and hoard money

Ornate (Adj)

Excessively decorated

Plagiarize (V)

To steal and to use another’s writing as one’s own

Procrastinate (V)

To defer action; to delay

Recluse (N)

A person who lives in solitude, a hermit

Stupefy (V)

To dull the sense as to put into a stupor

Summon (V)

To call together, to send for or to request to appear

Transparent (Adj)

Quality of being able to be seen through, clear

Abase (V)

To degrade, to humiliate

Arrogant (Adj)

Overbearingly assuming; insolently proud

Assent (V)

To agree or to concur; to give in, to yield; agreement

Boorish (Adj)

Rude or insensitive; ill-mannered

Conciliate (V)

To reconcile, to pacify, to renew a friendship

Copious (Adj)

Abundant

Deleterious (Adj)

Harmful; dangerous; injurious

Desolate (Adj)

Deserted, without inhabitants, barren

Flourish (V)

To thrive, to grow well

Inane (Adj)

Lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly, insipid

Jingoist (N)

An extreme patriot, usually calls for a belligerent foreign policy

Penitent (Adj)

Showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant

Placid (Adj)

Peaceful, calm

Quiescent (Adj)

inactive, dormant

Rant (V)

to rave, to speak in a loud and attacking manner

Reproach (V)

To blame for something; a disgrace

Tractable (Adj)

Capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; obedient

Vapid (Adj)

dull, inane, insipid

Virtuoso (N)

one skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished musician, a savant

Voluble (Adj)

Able to use words easily, fluent and glib