Hey guys, me being the loser that I am, I copied all of the words from the SAT Vocabulary book from English, and so here they all are, defined and split up by lesson number. It's almost everything, I'm missing one or two words that neither Google nor Word's dictionaries had.
- Jake
Lesson 1
Divulge - to make public
Abet - to actively second and encourage (as an activity or plan)
Dogmatic - characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
Insipid - lacking taste or savor
Extraneous - existing on or coming from the outside
Coerce - to restrain or dominate by force
Meticulous - marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details
Temerity - unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
Gregarious - tending to associate with others of one's kind
Lesson 2
Heresy - adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma
Docile - easily taught
Libation - an act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice (as to a deity)
Anathema - one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority
Banter - to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner
Castigate - to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
Gauche - lacking social experience or grace
Ignominy - deep personal humiliation and disgrace
Motley - variegated in color
Emaciated - to waste away physically
Lesson 3
Avarice - excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain
Furtive - done by stealth
Extradite - to deliver up to extradition
Copious - yielding something abundantly
Irascible - marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
Mercenary - one that serves merely for wages
Jettison - a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress
Ostracize - to exile by ostracism
Lesson 4
Bigot - a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices
Expunge - to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
Candid - free from bias, prejudice, or malice
Argot - an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
Negligence - the quality or state of being negligent
Appease - to bring to a state of peace or quiet
Strident - characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
Chaos - a state of things in which chance is supreme
Augment - to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
Jingoism - extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy
Lesson 5
Rancor - bitter deep-seated ill will
Inexorable - not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped
Extol - to praise highly
Clement - inclined to be merciful
Cliché - An expression so often used that its original power has been drained away, such as "dead as a doornail."
Adamant - a stone (as a diamond) formerly believed to be of impenetrable hardness
Diffident - hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
Opus - a musical composition or set of compositions usually numbered in the order of its issue
Ostensible - intended for display
Disparity - containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements
Lesson 6
Condone - to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless
Nuance - a subtle distinction or variation
Connoisseur - one who understands the details, technique, or principles of an art and is competent to act as a critical judge
Enigma - an obscure speech or writing
Apathy - lack of feeling or emotion
Officious - volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed
Credence - mental acceptance as true or real
Jaunty - sprightly in manner or appearance
Dilettante - an admirer or lover of the arts
Cult - formal religious veneration
Lesson 7
Cynical - having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic
Ambivalent - simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
Demagogue - a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
Demure - affectedly modest, reserved, or serious
Intrepid - characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance
Destitute - lacking something needed or desirable
Erudite - possessing or displaying erudition
Dilemma - an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent
Culmination - the action of culminating
Concur - to act together to a common end or single effect
Lesson 8
Abate - to put an end to
Decorum - literary and dramatic propriety
Abhor - to regard with extreme repugnance
Dole - one's allotted share, portion, or destiny
Gamut - the whole series of recognized musical notes
Extrovert - one whose personality is characterized by extroversion
Droll - having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
Duplicity - contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action
Effigy - an image or representation especially of a person
Austere - stern and cold in appearance or manner
Lesson 9
Emulate - to strive to equal or excel
Sere - being dried and withered
Enhance - to increase or improve in value, quality, desirability, or attractiveness
Contrite - feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
Magnanimous - showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit
Enunciate - to make a definite or systematic statement of
Collaborate - to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor
Impound - to shut up in or as if in a pound
Impeccable - not capable of sinning or liable to sin
Evoke - to call forth or up
Inane - lacking significance, meaning, or point
Unctuous - smooth and greasy in texture or appearance
Expatriate - to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country
Frowzy - having a slovenly or uncared-for appearance
Lesson 10
Heinous - hatefully or shockingly evil
Expound - to set forth
Cajole - to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance
Inscrutable - not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood
Balk - a ridge of land left unplowed as a dividing line or through carelessness
Acrimony - harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or disposition
Dour - A foray, or a hasty expedition of any kind. H. daur, ‘a run.’ Also to dour, ‘to run,’ or ‘to make such an expedition.’
Exult - to leap for joy
Omniscient - having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
Feasible - capable of being done or carried out
Fiasco - a complete failure
Métier - the area or subject in which an artist is most qualified, most accomplished or most comfortable.
Fluctuate - to shift back and forth uncertainly
Harry - to make a pillaging or destructive raid on
Incognito - with one's identity concealed
Lethargy - abnormal drowsiness
Epistle - one of the letters adopted as books of the New Testament
Avid - desirous to the point of greed
Gadfly - any of various flies (as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock
Humility - the quality or state of being humble
Dolorous - causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
Gargantuan - tremendous in size, volume, or degree
Arduous - hard to accomplish or achieve
Affable - being pleasant and at ease in talking to others
Grandiloquent - a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
Agrarian - of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure
Grimace - a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain
Harangue - a speech addressed to a public assembly
Formidable - causing fear, dread, or apprehension
Sycophant - a servile self-seeking flatterer
Lesson 11
Explicit - fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity
Altercation - a noisy heated angry dispute
Lexicon - a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions
Hue - gradation of color
Galvanize - to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically
Sanction - a formal decree
Hyperbole - extravagant exaggeration (as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
Ominous - being or exhibiting an omen
Audacity - the quality or state of being audacious
Evince - to constitute outward evidence of
Implacable - not placable
Exhort - to incite by argument or advice
Incarcerate - to put in prison
Incisive - impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation)
Expedient - suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance
Pertinent - having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand
Lesson 12
Inert - lacking the power to move
Circumvent - to hem in
Clandestine - marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy
Acquit - to pay off (as a claim or debt)
Deprecate - to pray against (as an evil)
Barrister - a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court -- compare SOLICITOR
Adulation - excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
Culinary - of or relating to the kitchen or cookery
Bawdy - boisterously or humorously indecent
Chastise - to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)
Jocose - given to joking
Myriad - ten thousand
Latent - present and capable of becoming though not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
Pernicious - highly injurious or destructive
Frugal - characterized by or reflecting economy in the use of resources
Lesson 13
Levity - excessive or unseemly frivolity
Hoax - to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
Amicable - characterized by friendly goodwill
Obstreperous - marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness
Enraptured - to fill with delight
Marital - of or relating to marriage or the married state
Bask - to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere
Genial - of or relating to marriage or generation
Mundane - of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
Fickle - marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability
Juggernaut - a large heavy truck
Naïve - inexperienced. The term is used to describe an individual who has never taken a certain drug (eg, AZT-naive) or to refer to undifferentiated immune system cells.
Nocturnal - of, relating to, or occurring in the night
Lesson 14
Novice - a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community
Noxious - physically harmful or destructive to living beings
Connive - to pretend ignorance of or fail to take action against something one ought to oppose
Chutzpah - supreme self-confidence
Liege - having the right to feudal allegiance or service
Odium - the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance
Crass - having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination
Hypercritical - meticulously or excessively critical
Fallacy - deceptive appearance
Complacent - marked by complacency
Befuddle - to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink
Pandemonium - the capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost
Parsimonious - exhibiting or marked by parsimony
Verbose - containing more words than necessary
Laudable - worthy of praise
Indiscreet - not discreet
Lesson 15
Pique - a transient feeling of wounded vanity
Linguistics - the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language
Plebian - (1) Roman citizens who did not belong to the exclusive patrician class, however rich and powerful they might be, and (2) the common people, citizens. There was a wide economic variation, from shop-keepers and artisans to welfare-recipients.
Precocious - exceptionally early in development or occurrence
Predatory - of, relating to, or practicing plunder, pillage, or rapine
Prowess - distinguished bravery
Pugnacious - having a quarrelsome or combative nature
Purloin - to appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust
Pusillanimous - lacking courage and resolution
Quell - to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity
Quixotic - foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
Rabble - a disorganized or confused collection of things
Rabid - extremely violent
Raconteur - a person who excels in telling anecdotes
Vindictive - disposed to seek revenge
Lesson 16
Circumspect - careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
Zephyr - a breeze from the west
Renegade - a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
Retribution - the dispensing or receiving of reward or punishment especially in the hereafter
Hurtle - to move rapidly or forcefully
Scourge - one used to inflict pain or punishment
Caustic - capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Taciturn - temperamentally disinclined to talk
Agnostic - a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
Terse - smoothly elegant
Uncanny - seeming to have a supernatural character or origin
Exodus - the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture -- see BIBLE table
Penitent - feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Vindicate - to set free
Raillery - good-natured ridicule
Lesson 17
Impregnable - incapable of being taken by assault
Xenophobic - one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin
Inherent - involved in the constitution or essential character of something
Irreverent - lacking proper respect or seriousness
Subjugate - to bring under control and governance as a subject
Expedite - to execute promptly
Filibuster - an irregular military adventurer
Pristine - belonging to the earliest period or state
Pithy - consisting of or abounding in pith
Invective - of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse
Prodigal - characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure
Pliable - supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking
Torpid - having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling
Tenuous - not dense
Discordant - being at variance
Lesson 18
Mellifluous - having a smooth rich flow
Epicurean - of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism
Oeuvre - a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer
Arbiter - a person with power to decide a dispute
Verdant - green in tint or color
Vagary - an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
Vacuous - emptied of or lacking content
Attrition - sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God
Archetype - the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies
Approbation - an act of approving formally or officially
Burgeon - to send forth new growth (as buds or branches)
Commensurate - equal in measure or extent
Confluence - a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point
Coup - a brilliant and notable success
Secular - of or relating to the worldly or temporal
Lesson 19
Insouciant - lighthearted unconcern
Static - exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion
Stipulate - to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something
Zeitgeist - the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era
Proliferate - to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring
Tenet - a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
Ruminate - to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
Vigilant - alertly watchful especially to avoid danger
Dissident - disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
Petulant - insolent or rude in speech or behavior
Derivative - a word formed by derivation
Accolade - a ceremonial embrace
Demur - to file a demurrer
Limpid - marked by transparency
Lesson 20
August - marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
Ancillary - A term used to describe additional services performed that are related to care, such as lab work, x-ray and anesthesia.
Semblance - outward and often specious appearance or show
Autodidact - a self-taught person
Asinine - extremely or utterly foolish
Albeit - conceding the fact that
Conduit - a natural or artificial channel through which something (as a fluid) is conveyed
Philatelist - a specialist in philately
Indefatigable - incapable of being fatigued
Martyr - a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion
Negligence - the quality or state of being negligent
Osmosis - movement of a solvent (as water) through a semipermeable membrane (as of a living cell) into a solution of higher solute concentration that tends to equalize the concentrations of solute on the two sides of the membrane
Picayune - a Spanish half real piece formerly current in the South
Behest - an authoritative order
