From Princeton Review’s Hit Parade SAT Vocab

Week 1: 1.Intuitive Knowing or perceiving quickly and readily

2. Paramount Of chief concern or importance

3. Urbane Notably polite and elegant in manner; suave

4. Epiphany A sudden burst of understanding or discovery

5. Trenchant Keen, incisive

6. Whimsical Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable

7.Emulate To try to equal or excel, especially through imitiation

8. Nascent Coming into existence; emerging

9. Novice A beginner

10. Laudatory Expressing great praise

Week 3 1. Incumbent Imposed as a duty; obligatory

2. Indigenous Originating and living in a particular area

3. Innate Possessed at birth; inborn

5. Parochial Narrow in scope

6. Pervasive Having the quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time

7. Penitent Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds

8. Vindicated Freed from blame

9. Jurisprudence The philosophy or science of law

10. Biased Prejudiced

Week 4 1. Immutable Not able to be changed

2. Mundane Commonplace; ordinary

3. Prosaic Unimaginative; dull

4. Prudent Exercising good judgement

5. Tenent A principle held as being true by a person or an organization

6. Stoic Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive

7. Austere Somber; stern

8. Genre Describing a category of artistic endeavor

9. Staid Characterized by a strait-laced sense of seriousness

10. Archaic Characteristic of an earlier, more primitive period; old-fashioned

2. Nocturnal Of or occuring at night

Week #5 Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ in two weeks Lists 1-6 Best ways to study? Kind of quiz?

1. Temperate Moderate, mild

2. Nocturnal of or relating to the night

3. Conflagration A widespread fire

4. Arid Describing a dry, rainless climate

5. Curtail To cut short, abbreviate

6. Terse Brief and to the point, concise

7. Purist One who is particularly concerned with maintaining traditional practices

8. Pragmatic practical

9. Frank Open and sincere in expression, straightforward

10. Candor Sincerity, openess

Week #6 Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ this Friday! Lists 1-6

1. Volition Will, conscious choice

2. Voluntary Willing, unforced

3. Didactic Instructive; intended to instruct

4. Disparate Different; incompatable

5. Disparage To belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about

6. Ephemeral Short-lived; not lasting

7. Compliant Yielding; submissive

8. Prosaic Boring, unimaginative

9. Expedient Providing an immediate advantage

10. Fastidious demanding

Week #7 Pander to cater to the desires of others by exploiting their weaknesses

2. Zealous Passionate; extremely interested in pursuing something

3. Milk To draw or extract profit or advantage from

4. Tenacity Persistent adherence to a belief or a point of view

5. Obstinate Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action

6. Meticulous Extremely careful and precise

7. Intrepid Courageous; fearless

8. Conscientious Careful and principled

9. Assiduious Hard-working

10. Propriety Appropriateness of behavior

Week 8 Punctilious Strictly attentive to minute details; picky

2. Dogged Stubbornly persistent

3. Facetious Playfully humorous

4. Egregious Outstandingly bad or offensive

5. Ruse A crafty trick

6. Slander False charges and malicious oral statements or reports about someone

7. Specious Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false

8. Superfluous extra; unnecessary

9. Squalor A filthy condition or quality

10. Sonorous Having or producing sound

Week 9 Incorrigible Unable to be reformed

2. Notorious Known widely and usually unfavorably

3. Caustic Bitingly sarcastic or witty

4. Transitory Short-lived or temporary

5. Parsimonious Excessively cheap

6. Repugnant Causing hatred or disgust

7. Obdurate Stubborn; inflexible

8. Ingrate An ungrateful person

9. Cantankerous Grumpy; disagreeable

10. Brusque Describing a rudely abrupt manner

Week 10 Abstruse hard to understand

2. Arduous Difficult; painstaking

3. Futile Having no useful purpose

4. Henious Hatefully evil; abominable

5. Impenetrable Incapable of being understood

6. Dilatory Describing one who habitually delays or is tardy

7. Sedentary Not migratory; settled

8. Indolent lazy

9. Paucity Fewness; an extreme lack of

10. Soporific Causing sleep or sleepiness

Reminder! Vocab quiz 7-12 next Friday Flash cards! Partner study! Review skits! Make a song!

Week #11 Wry dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony

2. Abdicate To formally give up power

3. Annihilate To destroy completely

4. Benevolent Kind, generous

5. Haughty Condescendingly proud

6. Omnipotent All-powerful

7. Patronize To treat in a condescending manner

8. Usurp To take power by force

9. Parody An artistic work that imitates the style of another for comic effect

10. Imperious Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

Week #12 Quiz , lists 7-12 this Friday!

1. Camaraderie Good will between friends

2. Gregarious Enjoying the company of others

3. Sanguine Cheerfully confident; optimistic

4. Opulent Exhibiting a display of great wealth

5. Pristine Not spoiled; pure

6. Medley An assortment or mixture, especially of musical instruments

7. Aesthetic Having to do with the appreciation of beauty

8. Ornate Elaborately ornamented

9. Salutary Promoting good health

10. Serene Calm