1. From Princeton Review’s Hit Parade
SAT Vocab

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

3. 2. Paramount
Of chief concern or importance

4. 3. Urbane
Notably polite and elegant in manner; suave

5. 4. Epiphany
A sudden burst of understanding or discovery

6. 5. Trenchant
Keen, incisive

7. 6. Whimsical
Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable

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

9. 8. Nascent
Coming into existence; emerging

10. 9. Novice
A beginner

11. 10. Laudatory
Expressing great praise

12. Week 3 1. Incumbent
Imposed as a duty; obligatory

13. 2. Indigenous
Originating and living in a particular area

14. 3. Innate
Possessed at birth; inborn

15. 5. Parochial
Narrow in scope

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

17. 7. Penitent
Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds

18. 8. Vindicated
Freed from blame

19. 9. Jurisprudence
The philosophy or science of law

20. 10. Biased
Prejudiced

21. Week 4 1. Immutable
Not able to be changed

22. 2. Mundane
Commonplace; ordinary

23. 3. Prosaic
Unimaginative; dull

24. 4. Prudent
Exercising good judgement

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

26. 6. Stoic
Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive

27. 7. Austere
Somber; stern

28. 8. Genre
Describing a category of artistic endeavor

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

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

31. 2. Nocturnal
Of or occuring at night

32. Week #5 Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ in two weeks Lists 1-6
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Kind of quiz?

33. 1. Temperate
Moderate, mild

34. 2. Nocturnal
of or relating to the night

35. 3. Conflagration
A widespread fire

36. 4. Arid
Describing a dry, rainless climate

37. 5. Curtail
To cut short, abbreviate

38. 6. Terse
Brief and to the point, concise

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

40. 8. Pragmatic
practical

41. 9. Frank
Open and sincere in expression, straightforward

42. 10. Candor
Sincerity, openess

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

44. 1. Volition
Will, conscious choice

45. 2. Voluntary
Willing, unforced

46. 3. Didactic
Instructive; intended to instruct

47. 4. Disparate
Different; incompatable

48. 5. Disparage
To belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about

49. 6. Ephemeral
Short-lived; not lasting

50. 7. Compliant
Yielding; submissive

51. 8. Prosaic
Boring, unimaginative

52. 9. Expedient
Providing an immediate advantage

53. 10. Fastidious
demanding

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

55. 2. Zealous
Passionate; extremely interested in pursuing something

56. 3. Milk
To draw or extract profit or advantage from

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

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

59. 6. Meticulous
Extremely careful and precise

60. 7. Intrepid
Courageous; fearless

61. 8. Conscientious
Careful and principled

62. 9. Assiduious
Hard-working

63. 10. Propriety
Appropriateness of behavior

64. Week 8
Punctilious
Strictly attentive to minute details; picky

65. 2. Dogged
Stubbornly persistent

66. 3. Facetious
Playfully humorous

67. 4. Egregious
Outstandingly bad or offensive

68. 5. Ruse
A crafty trick

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

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

71. 8. Superfluous
extra; unnecessary

72. 9. Squalor
A filthy condition or quality

73. 10. Sonorous
Having or producing sound

74. Week 9
Incorrigible
Unable to be reformed

75. 2. Notorious
Known widely and usually unfavorably

76. 3. Caustic
Bitingly sarcastic or witty

77. 4. Transitory
Short-lived or temporary

78. 5. Parsimonious
Excessively cheap

79. 6. Repugnant
Causing hatred or disgust

80. 7. Obdurate
Stubborn; inflexible

81. 8. Ingrate
An ungrateful person

82. 9. Cantankerous
Grumpy; disagreeable

83. 10. Brusque
Describing a rudely abrupt manner

84. Week 10
Abstruse
hard to understand

85. 2. Arduous
Difficult; painstaking

86. 3. Futile
Having no useful purpose

87. 4. Henious
Hatefully evil; abominable

88. 5. Impenetrable
Incapable of being understood

89. 6. Dilatory
Describing one who habitually delays or is tardy

90. 7. Sedentary
Not migratory; settled

91. 8. Indolent
lazy

92. 9. Paucity
Fewness; an extreme lack of

93. 10. Soporific
Causing sleep or sleepiness

94. Reminder! Vocab quiz 7-12 next Friday Flash cards! Partner study!
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95. Week #11
Wry
dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony

96. 2. Abdicate
To formally give up power

97. 3. Annihilate
To destroy completely

98. 4. Benevolent
Kind, generous

99. 5. Haughty
Condescendingly proud

100. 6. Omnipotent
All-powerful

101. 7. Patronize
To treat in a condescending manner

102. 8. Usurp
To take power by force

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

104. 10. Imperious
Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

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

106. 1. Camaraderie
Good will between friends

107. 2. Gregarious
Enjoying the company of others

108. 3. Sanguine
Cheerfully confident; optimistic

109. 4. Opulent
Exhibiting a display of great wealth

110. 5. Pristine
Not spoiled; pure

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

112. 7. Aesthetic
Having to do with the appreciation of beauty

113. 8. Ornate
Elaborately ornamented

114. 9. Salutary
Promoting good health

115. 10. Serene
Calm