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DSAT HOT LIST


  • Mundane, Banal: Boring, Normal

  • Superfluous: Extra, beside the point

  • Innocuous: Not harmful or offensive

  • Precipitated: To cause an event (negative) to happen quickly and suddenly

  • Predicated On: To depend of the truth/existence of something

  • Engender: To foster, support

  • Insuperable: Insurmountable, Impossible to overcome

  • Belied: Contradictory, To disguise, to give a false impression of something

  • Harbinger: A sign of something to come (usually negative)

  • Spurious: Questionable, to be false, Not what it looks like

  • Temerity: Excessive confidence or boldness

  • Excacerbate: To make bigger/worse

  • Placate, Mitigate, Amerliorate: Make better/less severe

  • Malcontent, Misanthrope: A person who is dissatisfied rebellious, hates everyone

  • Repudiate: To reject, to recant, to take back a statement

  • Verisimilitude: Seemingly truthful

  • Desultory: Lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm

  • Specious: Plausible, but actually wrong

  • Tenacity: Stubborn/Unyielding, to have grit

  • Paucity: Scarcity

  • Analogous: comparable in certain respects

  • Amorphous: Lacking a shape

  • Ambivalent: To have strong mixed feelings

  • Anomalous: Unique, Unexpected

  • Equivocal: Ambiguous, open to interpretation, unclear

  • Ubiquitous, Pervasive: Appearing everywhere, widespread amongst people

  • Luminary: One who influences or inspires others

  • Inviolate: free or safe from injury or violation

  • Avant-garde: new, unusual, experimental ideas, especially in the arts, ahead of its time

  • Undifferentiated: Not different, not differentiated

  • Forsaken: abandoned or deserted

  • Recalcitrant: Having an uncooperative attitude towards power or authority 

  • Myriad: a great number of __, a large amount

  • Preclude: To prevent from happening, to make impossible

  • Hinges: to rely on something, to necessarily rest on something

  • Proponent: Supporter

  • Profusion: Abundant

  • Provensity to : Likely to 

  • Detractors: Critics, someone who criticizes something

  • Galvanized: to shock something into happening, to add fuel to the fire

  • Synthesize: To combine, join

  • Catalyst: The cause of something

  • Roused: to awaken

  • Incongruous: Not in harmony with surroundings or other parts

  • Lampooning: to publicly criticize

  • Supplant: To take out and replace something

  • Austerity: Severity of manner/attitude

  • Copious: Great amounts

  • Pretentious: care about appearances, superficial

  • Autonomous: Working by itself

  • Magnanimous: Generous

  • Cogent: clear logical, convincing

  • Denigrate: Criticize/Bash (unfairly)

  • Deprecate: to criticize

  • Depreciate: to lose value

  • Disparities: inequalities

  • Delineate: Describe, portray precisely

  • Derivative: to deviation

  • Proliferation: rapidly increase in numbers

  • Scant: Lacking in size or quantity

  • Spate: Large number of similar things happening in quick succession

  • Inherent: Natural, essentual

  • Innate: Inborn, Natural

  • Incorrigible: Uncorrectable

  • Dogmatic: Stubborn beliefs

  • Fluid: Free flowing, changing

  • Deletrious: Causing harm or damage

  • Incredulous: Disbelieving

  • Nebulous: Unclear, Hazy

The DSAT HOT LIST consists of various words and their meanings that are helpful for enhancing vocabulary. Key terms include:

  • Mundane, Banal: Boring, normal

  • Superfluous: Extra, beside the point

  • Innocuous: Not harmful or offensive

  • Precipitated: To cause an event to happen quickly and suddenly

  • Engender: To foster, support

  • Tenacity: Stubborn/unyielding, having grit

  • Myriad: A great number of something

  • Profusion: Abundant

  • Galvanized: To shock something into happening

  • Cogent: Clear, logical, convincing This list serves as a useful reference for students looking to improve their verbal skills.

DSAT HOT LIST Overview: The DSAT HOT LIST is a compilation of vocabulary words and their meanings, designed to aid students in enhancing their verbal skills. This list covers a range of terms, including nomenclature related to emotional states (e.g., "Malcontent"), logical reasoning (e.g., "Cogent"), and general descriptors (e.g., "Ubiquitous"). Key entries include terms like "Tenacity" for stubbornness, "Myriad" for a great number, and "Galvanized" for catalyzing action. The list is a valuable resource for students looking to refine their vocabulary in preparation for academic challenges.