1. Spring Semester
SAT Vocab

2. Week 1

3. 1. nemesis
an opponent or enemy that is likely to be impossible for you to defeat, or a situation that is likely to be impossible for you to deal with

4. 2. dearth
A lack of something

5. 3. inevitable
certain to happen and impossible to avoid

6. 4. discord
disagreement or arguing between people; an unpleasant sound made by a group of musical notes that do not go together well

7. 5. demonstrative
willing to show that you care about someone

8. 6. wistful
thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have, especially something that you used to have in the past

9. 7. brevity
the quality of expressing something in very few words

10. 8. rigidity
Having the quality of being unwilling to change ideas or behavior

11. 9. florid
florid language, music, or art has a lot of extra unnecessary details or decorations; a florid face is red in color

12. 10. opacity
the quality that something has when it is difficult to understand or difficult to see through

13. Week 2

14. 1. negligible
too slight or unimportant to have any effect

15. 2. counterproductive
achieving the opposite result to the one that you want

16. 3. momentous
An event, change, or decision is very important because it will have a great influence on the future

17. 4. magnanimous
kind and generous, especially to someone that you have defeated

18. 5. lavish (adj) large, impressive, or expensive
(v) to give someone or something a lot of love, praise, money etc

19. 6. corpulence
The condition of being excessively fat, obese

20. 7. vex
to make someone feel annoyed or worried

21. 8. abound
to exist in very large numbers

22. 9. succulent
juicy and good to eat

23. 10. redolent
making you think of something; smelling strongly of something

24. Week 3

25. 1. cerebral
relating to or affecting your brain; having or involving complicated ideas rather than strong emotions

26. 2. therapeutic
making you feel calm and relaxed; relating to the treatment or cure of an illness

27. 3. undermine
to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective

28. 4. debacle
an event or situation that is a complete failure

29. 5. thwart
to prevent someone from doing what they are trying to do

30. 6. forfeit
to be legally or officially taken away from you as a punishment

31. 7. redouble
to greatly increase your effort as you try to do something

32. 8. harangue
to speak in a loud angry way, often for a long time, in order to criticize someone or to persuade them that you are right

33. 9. intemperate
language or behavior that shows a lack of control which other people think is unacceptable

34. 10. conciliatory
doing something that is intended to make someone stop arguing with you

35. Week 4

36. 1. halting
if your speech or movements are halting, you stop for a moment between words or movements, especially because you are not confident

37. 2. robust
A person, thing or organization is strong and not likely to have problems; showing determination or strong opinions; strong flavor (as in food)

38. 3. facile
A remark, argument etc. that is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding; achievement or success that has been obtained too easily and has no value

39. 4. imperious
giving orders and expecting to be obeyed, in a way that seems too proud

40. 5. inscrutable
showing no emotion or reaction in the expression so that it is impossible to know what they are feeling or thinking

41. 6. convivial
friendly and pleasantly cheerful

42. 7. histrionic
very loud and emotional behaviour that is intended to get sympathy and attention - used to show disapproval

43. 8. solicitous
very concerned about someone's safety, health, or comfort

44. 9. agnostic
someone who believes that people cannot know whether God exists or not

45. 10. eclectic
including a mixture of many different things or people, especially so that you can use the best of all of them

46. Week 5

47. 1. empiric
based on scientific testing or practical experience, not on ideas

48. 2. phobic
someone who has a strong unreasonable fear of something

49. 3. quixotic
ideas or plans are not practical and are based on unreasonable hopes of improving the world

50. 4. foster
to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time

51. 5. allege
to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong, although it has not been proved

52. 6. ascertain
to find out something

53. 7. gaiety
when someone or something is cheerful and fun

54. 8. brevity
the quality of expressing something in very few words

55. 9. subdue
to defeat or control a person or group, especially using force; to prevent your emotions from showing or being too strong

56. 10. transitory
continuing or existing for only a short time

57. Week 6

58. 1. recessive
Not dominant (usually refers to gene)

59. 2. pliant
soft and moving easily in the way that you want; easily influenced and controlled by others

60. 3. Arboreal
relating to trees, or living in trees

61. 4. unwitting
in a way that shows you do not know or realize something

62. 5. inhibit
to make someone feel embarrassed or nervous so that they cannot do or say what they want to; to prevent something from growing or developing well

63. 6. elusive
difficult to find or not often seen; hard to achieve; difficult to describe or understand

64. 7. extol
to praise something very much

65. 8. censure
to officially criticize someone for something they have done wrong

66. 9. disparage
to criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not think they are very good or important

67. 10. venality
willing to use power and influence in a dishonest way in return for money