Sat Class Vocab 3

Front 1

Reprobate

Back 1

Person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency

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Impassive

Back 2

Without feeling, not affected by pain

Front 3

Tawdry

Back 3

Cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky

Front 4

Harrow

Back 4

To distress, create stress or torment

Front 5

Disingenuous

Back 5

Sophisticated, artful, trying to deceive, cunning

Front 6

Quiescent

Back 6

at rest, dormant, torpid

Front 7

Antipathy

Back 7

Aversion, dislike

Front 8

Ascetic

Back 8

Practicing self-denial, austere, stark

Front 9

Punctilious

Back 9

Precise, paying attenion to trivialties esp etiquette

Front 10

Pusilianimous

Back 10

Cowardly, craven

Front 11

Engender

Back 11

Cause, produce, give rise to

Front 12

Venal

Back 12

Corruptible, open to bribery

Front 13

Contentious

Back 13

Argumentative, pugnacious

Front 14

Tenuous

Back 14

Unsubstantial, flimsy, weak

Front 15

Doggerel

Back 15

Trivial, poorly constructed verse

Front 16

Broach

Back 16

Bring up, announce, begin to talk about

Front 17

Undulate

Back 17

to move in a wavelike fashion, fluctuate

Front 18

Penury

Back 18

Extreme poverty

Front 19

Effrontery

Back 19

Boldness, impudence, arrogance

Front 20

Precipitous

Back 20

Rash, foolhardy, dropping sharply, dangerous

Front 21

Misanthrope

Back 21

One who hates mankind

Front 22

Piquant

Back 22

Agreeably pungent, stimulating

Front 23

Striated

Back 23

Striped, grooved or banded

Front 24

Raffish

Back 24

Low, vulgar, base, tawdry

Front 25

Insouciant

Back 25

Unconcerned, carefree

Front 26

Gainsay

Back 26

Deny

Front 27

Prevaricate

Back 27

Stray from or avoid the truth; equivocate

Front 28

Guileless

Back 28

Without deceit, honest

Front 29

Fulminate

Back 29

Berate, vituperate, to explode

Front 30

Brook

Back 30

to tolerate, endure

Front 31

Bedizen

Back 31

to adorn, esp in a cheap, showy manner

Front 32

Irresolute

Back 32

Unresolved, indecisive

Front 33

Inchoate

Back 33

not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary

Front 34

Minatory

Back 34

menacing, threatening

Front 35

Rapacious

Back 35

Voracious, greedy, plundering

Front 36

Philistine

Back 36

A smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge

Front 37

Abrogate

Back 37

Abolish or annul by authority; put down

Front 38

Denigrate

Back 38

Blacken, belittle, sully, defame

Front 39

Fecund

Back 39

Fertile

Front 40

Harangue

Back 40

A long, passionate speech

Front 41

Calumny

Back 41

Slander, aspersion

Front 42

Fulsome

Back 42

Disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness

Front 43

Volatile

Back 43

Changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable, explosive

Front 44

Consternation

Back 44

Sudden confusion or amazement

Front 45

Mendacity

Back 45

Dishonesty

Front 46

Conjoin

Back 46

To join together

Front 47

Ineluctable

Back 47

Certain, inevitable

Front 48

Alacrity

Back 48

Cheerful promptness