SAT words

SAT vocab list

prefix re: again or usually negative

Overtly-openly

Cordially-warmly

Inadvertently-accidentally

Exacerbating-to make things worse

Precluding- prevent from happening

Tenuous -Slight

Nuanced - lots of meanings

Diverge - break off; di=two

Denigrate - belittle and take away to support for something

Misconstrue - misinterpretating something

surmised- infer

contrived - fabricate, make something happen through trickery

precarious: position that might fall

prudent: using careful and good judgement

dogmatic: stubbornly insistent on their onwn viewpoint

proficient: mastered

dynamic: lots of energy and movement, means it has a lot of life and power to it.

benign: something is harmless or somebody had good intentions

truncated: cut short

curtail: cut short

prefigure: hint at something being a precursor

mystifing: mysterious but a NEUTRAL word

repudiate: disown or reject something

recant: take back your word

inconspicuous - less likely to cause observation

discretion - trait of keeping quiet about things that don’t need to be disclosed

preclude - prevent something from happening

sanguine: bloody, red, optimistic

recalcitrant: stubbornly uncooperative to being corrected

obstinant: stubbornly refusing to change opinion

obdurate: hard to change opinion

misanthropic: you hate people

superficial: on the surface– not actual

exhaustive: to the fullest extent

disparate: separate, different

stymie: impede, frustrate

disparage: belittle and talk abt something like it has no value

outstrip: surpass and defeat

counsel– advise; NOT console– which is to make them feel better

imploringly– pleadingly

disinterestedly– unbiased, not having a stake or conflict of interest

omit – leave out

perturbation – anxiety OR change from normalcy

anomalous – deviation from whats expected

facetious – rudely unserious

ameliorate – make something bad better

coalesce – come together to form a whole

recur – occur again

supplant – take the place of

expediency– convenient possibly being immoral.

fecundity – fertility; able to produce lots of offspring