Sat Vocab 2

Front 1

disavow

Back 1

to deny knowledge of or responsibility for

Front 2

precipice

Back 2

the face of a cliff, a steep or overhanging place

Front 3

linchpin

Back 3

something that holds separate parts together

Front 4

preponderance

Back 4

superiority in importance or quantity

Front 5

subjugate

Back 5

to bring under control, subdue

Front 6

garish

Back 6

gaudy, in bad taste

Front 7

gaudy

Back 7

very showy, but really of little value

Front 8

antecedent

Back 8

something that comes before

Front 9

disparate

Back 9

sharply differing, containing sharply contrasting elements

Front 10

malediction

Back 10

a curse

Front 11

privation

Back 11

lacking basic necessities

Front 12

surrogate

Back 12

one acting in place of another

Front 13

manifest

Back 13

easily understandable, obvious, OR to show plainly

Front 14

mawkish

Back 14

sick sentimentality

Front 15

propagate

Back 15

to multiply, spread out

Front 16

temerity

Back 16

audacity, recklessness

Front 17

concede

Back 17

to accept as valid

Front 18

dither

Back 18

to be indecisive

Front 19

hardy

Back 19

robust, capable of surviving through adverse conditions

Front 20

mendacious

Back 20

having a lying, false character

Front 21

prosaic

Back 21

plain

Front 22

concomitant

Back 22

accompanying in a subordinate fashion

Front 23

docile

Back 23

easily trained or taught

Front 24

hegemony

Back 24

domination over others

Front 25

conduit

Back 25

a pipe or channel through which something passes

Front 26

flippant

Back 26

frivolously disrespectful, shallow, lacking seriousness

Front 27

modulate

Back 27

to pass from one state to another

Front 28

pulchritude

Back 28

physical beauty

Front 29

confluence

Back 29

a gathering together

Front 30

putrid

Back 30

rotten, foul

Front 31

transmute

Back 31

to change in form

Front 32

mutable

Back 32

able to change

Front 33

trepidation

Back 33

fear, apprehension

Front 34

ascribe

Back 34

to assign, credit, attribute to

Front 35

impecunious

Back 35

poor

Front 36

nebulous

Back 36

cloudy, vaguely defined

Front 37

rail

Back 37

to scold, protest

Front 38

consonant

Back 38

in harmony

Front 39

elicit

Back 39

to bring forth, draw out, evoke

Front 40

impervious

Back 40

incapable of being affected, impenetrable

Front 41

uncanny

Back 41

of supernatural character or origin

Front 42

nonchalant

Back 42

unconcerned

Front 43

contravene

Back 43

to contradict, oppose, violate

Front 44

eminent

Back 44

prominent, famous

Front 45

vacuous

Back 45

lack of content or ideas, stupid

Front 46

incarnate

Back 46

existing in the flesh OR to give human form to

Front 47

vanquish

Back 47

to conquer or subdue by superior force

Front 48

sultry

Back 48

oppressively hot, rousing passion

Front 49

intrinsic

Back 49

belonging to a thing by its very nature

Front 50

fallacy

Back 50

a false notion or belief, deceptive, misleading

Front 51

squalid

Back 51

foul, filthy

Front 52

supersede

Back 52

to replace

Front 53

insidious

Back 53

appealing but imperceptibly harmful, seductive

Front 54

pathology

Back 54

a deviation from the normal

Front 55

adumbrate

Back 55

to sketch out in a vague way

Front 56

canny

Back 56

shrewd, careful

Front 57

instigate

Back 57

to urge, goad

Front 58

pellucid

Back 58

clear, easily intelligible

Front 59

penurious

Back 59

stingy

Front 60

euphemism

Back 60

the substitution of a mild, vague expression

Front 61

excoriation/excoriate

Back 61

to censure strongly, denounce

Front 62

rebuff

Back 62

to reject

Front 63

invoke

Back 63

to call for help or aid

Front 64

moratorium

Back 64

a suspension of activity

Front 65

repartee

Back 65

a quick, witty reply

Front 66

recidivist

Back 66

someone who repeatedly relapses into undesirable patterns of behavior

Front 67

chary

Back 67

cautious or careful

Front 68

soliloquy

Back 68

person talking to self