SAT Vocab - High Frequency

Amalgamation

To combine

Corroborate

To give support

Promulgated

To promote

Consolidate

To make stronger

Curtail

Reduce in extent/Quantity

Abatement

The ending, reduction, or lessening

Dearth

Lack of

Engender

Cause or give rise to

Stipulate

Demand

Induce

Cause to happen

Supplant

Replace

Substantiate IMPORTANT*

Provide evidence

Entail

Involve

Circumspection

Caution; Unwilling to take risks

Impartiality

Fairness

Replicability

Able to be copied

Attrition

Reducing strength or effectiveness

Tenuous

Very Weak

Dogmatic

Person who believes their principles are right

Sardonic

Cynical; Scornfully mocking

Furtive

Secretive

Abate

to lessen

Vindicate IMPORTANT*

Clear of blame

Insuperable

Cant be dealt with fully

Precipitate

Cause to happen

Irreproachable

Fautless

Supposition

Hypothesis

Spurious

Intending to deceive

Promulgated

Promote/Make widley known

Copious

Larger in quantity

Conflate

Blend

Eschew

Intentionally avoid

Ubiquitous

Seeming to appear everywhere

Ameliorate

To make better

Anomalous

Peculiar

Evince

Reveal

Idiosyncratic

Peculiar to a specific person

Belie

to give a false impression

Contentious

Causing disagreement

Heterogenity

Mixed

Insurmountable

Too great to overcome

Preclude

To prevent

Intercede

Intervene

Transpose

Change position of

Incongruous

Not in harmony

Placate

To pacity (appel - end anger)

Abridge

Shorten by condensing

Abound

To be plentiful

Ambiguous

Open to many interpretations

Amorphous

Lacking definite shape

Appraise

To assess value

Ascribe

To assign or refer to (as a cause or source)

Attenuate

To weaken

Burgeoning

Expanding or growing rapidly

Capacious

Spacious

Capitalize

Take advantage of

Capricious

Impulsive

Coalesce

To come together as a mall

Commend

Praise Formally

Confounded

Confused

Conjecture

An opinion formed on incomplete information

Cursory

Superficial

Decouple

Seperate

Decry

to criticize openly

Demarcation

Marking a boundary

Denote

to indicate

Desultory

Lacking purpose

Diminuitive

Small

Discerning

Recognize

Discretion

Caution or freedom to decide

Disquieting

Inducing feelings of anxiety

Emanate

Originate

Emblematic

Serving as a symbol

Emissary

An agent sent on a mission

Enumerate

List

Epitomize

To be a perfect example of

Equivocal

Having different interpretations

Excise

To cut out

Exhaustive

Including all possibilites

Expound

to explain in detail

Extraneous

irrelevant

Facetious

Joking

Fecund

Prodcutive

Forsake

To abandon

Harbinger

Person that announces

Immoderate

excessive

imperative

Vital

Imperious

Arrogant

Impervious

Incapable of being affected

Impugn

Dispute the truth

Indolence

Laziness

Lambaste

Violently attack verbally or physically

Misconstrue

Interpret wrongly

Modulate

To adjust/regulate

Myriad

Countless (great number)

Nebulous

Vague

Nominal

Very small

Notional

Thereotical

Orthodox

Following accepted beliefs

Palpable

Capable of being percieved