SAT VOCAB #101

Delusion

False belief, hallucination, deluding

Extrovert

Person interested mostly in external objects and actions

Exemplary

Outstanding, setting a good example

Exiguous

Small in amount minute

Preliminary

Introductory, beginning

Vulgar

Rude, Crude

Ubiquitous

Existing everywhere, omnipresent

Pert

Impertinent forward trim jaunty

Dictum

Official order or statement

Augmenting

Increasing in size or number

Forerunner

Predecessor one that comes before and indicates the approach of another

Permissible

Allowed

Affix

To attach, to fasten

Intransigence

Refusal of any compromise, stubbornness

Belittle

Disparage depreciate

Paradoxically

Counter to what one would think contradictory

Sophistry

Deceptive reasoning

Derided

Mocked

Ovoid

Egg

Layman

Man who is not a cleric man who is nonprofessional

Torso

Trunk of statue with head and limbs missing human trunk

Navigable

Wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through

Wry

Twisted with humorous twist(expressing displeasure)

Qualm

Doubt or fear

Indecipherable

Cannot be decoded, cannot be worked out

Objectivity

Being unbiased, scientific attitude

Civ

Citizen

Wrongheaded

Stubbornly wrong

Reserve

Self-control

Analgesia

Condition of being unable to feel pain

Distinct

Clearly different, clearly noticed

Morph(V)

To change or transform

Simil

Like, resembling

Miniscule

Tiny, minute

Glitch

Mistake, failure (Small)

Discernment

Judgment

Ensemble

Troupe(musicians etc) group set(of clothes)

Rag

Scrap of cloth ADJ. ragged: old and torn seeming unfinished and imperfect

Negotiate

To successfully travel through, around

Pandemonium

Wild tumult(commotion) wild noisy disorder

Landmark

An important event or date

Exalt

Raise in rank or dignity praise highly inspire

Trifle

Something of little importance or value small amount V: treat without seriousness flirt

Tempo

The speed or pace of something

Endear

Make beloved

Nomadic

Wandering

Dissatisfied

Unhappy, displeased

Banal

Dull, unoriginal

Resurgence

Revival

Wallow

Roll in mud indulge in (Of a ship) roll in a rough sea become helpless