1. LIST 1

2. Abhor - verb
To hate

3. Bigot - noun
narrow-minded, prejudiced person

4. Counterfeit - adjective
fake; false

5. Enfranchise - verb
To give voting rights

6. Hamper - verb
To hinder; obstruct

7. Kindle - verb
To start a fire

8. Placid – adjective
calm; peaceful

9. Abrasive - adjective
rough; coarse; harsh

10. Noxious - adjective
harmful; poisonous; lethal

11. Talisman - noun
lucky charm

12. SAT WORD LIST 3

13. Acuity- adjective
sharpness (mental or visual)

14. Braggart - noun
someone who boasts

15. Epitomized - verb
typified; characterized; personified

16. Languish - verb
decay; fade away; get weaker

17. Obsequious - adjective
servile; submissive

18. Polemical - adjective
causing debate or argument

19. Thwart - verb
prevent; frustrate

20. Adamant - adjective
forceful; inflexible

21. Brawny - adjective
muscular

22. Equivocate - verb
speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth

23. List 4

24. Period 3 vocabulary

25. Accolade - noun
praise

26. Conception - noun
1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy

27. Denounce - verb
To speak out against something

28. Disdain – verb
To show contempt for

29. Inept - adjective
Clumsy, not good at something

30. Mitigate - verb
To make less severe

31. Nascent - adjective
just begun; in an early stage of development

32. Obtrusive - adjective
Easily seen

33. Profligate - adjective
wasteful and immoral behavior

34. Resurgence - noun
revival

35. List 5

36. EXPEDIENT - ADJ
convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.

37. ALACRITY - NOUN
brisk and cheerful readiness.

38. CONSCIENCE - NOUN
an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

39. relevant or applicable to a particular matter; connecting to something
PERTINENT - ADJ
relevant or applicable to a particular matter; connecting to something

40. SCOURGE - NOUN
a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.

41. HOMAGE - NOUN
special honor or respect shown publicly.

42. INTRUDE - VERB
put oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is unwelcome or uninvited.

43. ADVOCATE - VERB
publicly recommend or support.

44. FRICTION - NOUN
the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

45. ABOLISH - VERB
formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).

46. LIST 6

47. abstain v.
To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).

48. blithe adj.
joyous

49. breach - noun
a violation of an official duty

50. callow - adj
without experience in the world; inexperienced or immature

51. catastrophe - noun
any sudden or great misfortune

52. improper - adj
not being appropriate, unfit, or unseemly

53. impromptu - adj
anything said or done in the impulse of a moment

54. rectify - verb
to correct

55. sinuous - adj
curving in and out

56. upheaval - noun
overthrow or violent disturbance of an established order

57. List 7

58. Congenial – adjective
friendly

59. Contumacious – adjective
rebellious

60. Amiable - adjective
Good-natured, polite

61. Plebian – adjective
Crude, common, low nature

62. Troublesome, difficult, oppressive
Onerous - adjective
Troublesome, difficult, oppressive

63. Itinerate - adjective
traveling

64. Indolent - adjective
Lazy, inactive

65. Sitting, remaining in one place
Sedentary - adjective
Sitting, remaining in one place

66. Endemic - adjective
widespread

67. Destitute - adjective
poor

68. List 8

69. Desiccated - adjective
dried

70. Indigent - adjective
poor

71. Phantasmal - adjective
ghostly

72. Fulminate - verb
To verbally attack

73. Unalloyed - adjective
pure

74. Unbidden - adjective
Not asked

75. Mercurial - adjective
Quick and changeable

76. Incorrigible - adjective
Uncontrollable, unable to be reformed

77. Wanderlust - noun
A strong impulse to travel

78. Extemporaneous - adjective
Impromptu, doing something without planning it