DSAT Vocab Hard

  • Denigrate - battle; ridicule 

  • Gratuitous - unnecessary, uncalled for

  • Mirth - merriment, joy

  • Demur - to object

  • Equivocate - to be ambiguous, not upfront

  • Fastidious - great attention to detail

  • Adulation - high praise

  • Guile - deception or skillful deceit 

  • Prodigious - causing amazement or wonder; enormous 

  • Magnanimous - noble or generous 

  • Hedonism - the pursuit of pleasure

  • Scrupulous - a person or process that is diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details

  • Terse - brief

  • Acquiesce - to agree; to submit passively

  • Irreproachable - beyond criticism or fault, perfect or faultless 

  • Loquacious - talkative

  • Haughty - arrogant or snobbish 

  • Deft - skilled

  • Curt - short in response, often used when someone is being rude

  • Perfunctory - done routinely with little care

  • Rancor - bitterness or spitefulness 

  • Belligerent - aggressive; hostile

  • Contrite - affected by guilt

  • Untenable - indefensible 

  • Banal - commonplace

  • Allay - to lessen, ease, or soothe

  • Spurious - false or not genuine, lacking authenticity 

  • Surreptitious - secret or stealthy

  • Bilk - to swindle or cheat

  • Egregious - obviously bad or offensive

  • Antipathy - extreme dislike

  • Incongruous - out of place

  • Acrimony - bitterness or hostility 

  • Disparage - to belittle or speak down to someone

  • Fervent - passionate or zealous 

  • Venerable - worthy of respect

  • Curmudgeon - a rude person

  • Convivial - social or festive

  • Extol - to commend or praise

  • Admonish - to caution or reprimand; to warn

  • Partite - divided into parts

  • Capricious - impulsive, whimsical 

  • Dogmatic - inflexible, rigid in one belief 

  • Accretion - gradual buildup or growth by addition

  • Abet - to aid

  • Inviolable - not to be broken; sacred

  • Untoward - unfavorable, inconvenient, inappropriate 

  • Assent - to agree

  • Taciturn - reserved or quiet

  • Trite - overused

  • Hew - cut or shape

  • Profligate - wasteful

  • Castigate - to punish severely 

  • Brusque - rudely concise 

  • Furtive - sneaky or shy

  • Edify - to instruct or enlighten 

  • Assiduous - diligent, hard-working

  • Admonish - to caution

  • Heretic - person holding blasphemous or untraditional views

  • Incorrigible - incapable of being corrected or reformed

  • Auspicious - favorable, promising

  • Avarice - greed

  • Feckless - weak; ineffective; incompetent 

  • Ardent - passionate

  • Expedient - suitable for achieving a particular end

  • Ascetic - self-denying; depriving oneself of something

  • Onerous - burdensome or oppressive

  • Sagacious - wise

  • Aspersion - a false rumor or damaging report

  • Impious - irreverent, disrespectful

  • Assuage - to soothe or pacify

  • Perspicacious - very perceptive or discerning

  • Abstruse - complex or hard to understand

  • Petulant - childish, irritable

  • Abase - to humble or degrade

  • Latent - undeveloped or dormant

  • Abdicate - to formally relinquish 

  • Obstreperous - noisy; unruly

  • Harbinger - forerunner or omen

  • Beguile - to deceive 

  • Parity - state of being equivalent

  • Callow - inexperienced, immature

  • Perfunctory - routine; done with care

  • Dearth - a lack or a deficiency

  • Eminent - prominent; distinguished

  • Pragmatic - practical 

  • Iconoclast - someone who attacks traditional ideas or institutions

  • Penitent - remorseful

  • Magnate - a powerful or influential person

  • Gregarious - sociable, enjoying the company of others

  • Languid - exhausted

  • Affable - friendly

  • Hapless - ill fated, unlucky

  • Palliate - to soothe or mitigate