SAT VOCAB

Derision

Mockery, scorn

Ennui

Boredom, lack of interest

Histrionics

Overacting, melodramatic, theatrical or affected display of feeling

Chagrin

Disappointment, embarrassment because of failure

Levity

Lightness, playfulness

Frivolity

Lack seriousness

Mendacity

Lying, falsehood

Vertigo

Dizziness, giddiness

Vertigo

Bold

Rancor

Malice, ill will

Sagacity

Wisdom, keen judgement

Austerity

Quality of being strict, rigorous, very simple

Dilemma

Choice of two undesirable alternatives

Enigma

Riddle, defies explanation

Euphemism

Substitution of mild expression for more straightforward one. For example “he used gone as euphemisms for dead”

Euphoria

Extremely happy

Oblivion

Complete forgetting. Like oblivious

Pathology

Study of disease or the symptoms, course, and effects of a particular disease

Idiosyncrasy

Peculiar tendency, odd habit

Brevity

Briefness

Encumber

Weigh down, hinder, burden

Mollify

Soothe or calm the temper of

Temporize

Evade or delay immediate action

Contemporaneous

Happen at same time

Discern

Perceive, identify

Fester

Grow worse, infected

Vitiate

Weaken, corrupt

Conjecture

Speculate

Deviate

Stray

Simulate

Pretend, false appearance of something

Abominaste

Hate, feel disgust for

Sequester

Seize by authority, set apart in seclusion

Abdicate

Give up a power or function

Gesticulate

Use hands and face to gesture

Importune

Ask, urge, or plead repeatedly

Intercede

Intervene on behalf of someone

Peruse

Read carefully

Interpolate

Change a text by inserting new material

Censure

Disapprove, blam

Exhort

Urge strongly to proper or necessary action

Incite

Urge to action, inspire

Salient

Conspicuous , noticeable

Banal

Commonplace

Deleterious

Injurious, harmful

Arcane

Myseterious