Sat Vocab List 4-6

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Austere

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Spartan, having few amenities or luxuries

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Ascetic

Back 2

requiring few luxuries or amenities; a person who abstains from luxuries, pleasures

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Hedonist

Back 3

a person who highly values luxuries and pleasures, a self-indulgent person

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Unreserved*

Back 4

without reluctance

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Qualify*

Back 5

to amend a statement to be more moderate; to self-censor

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Portent

Back 6

a sign, an omen

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Contrition

Back 7

remorse

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Admonish
(mon)

Back 8

to warn
warn

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Extol

Back 9

to praise highly

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Exhort

Back 10

to encourage, to urge

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Rhetoric

Back 11

the study of effective use of speech or writing; fancy but empty use of language

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Appropriate*

Back 12

to designate resources or money toward a certain end; to take control of or steal

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Obstinate

Back 13

extremely stubborn

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Mundane
(mond/mund)

Back 14

down-to-earth, plain, ordinary
world

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Aesthetic

Back 15

having to do with beauty, artistic quality

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Vivacious
(viv)

Back 16

lively, energetic
life

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Lament

Back 17

to speak about with sadness or regret

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Advocacy
(ad-)
(voc)

Back 18

speaking on behalf of, endorsement of
toward
speak

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Affectation

Back 19

an attempt to seem to possess a quality, an artificial demeanor

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Divine*

Back 20

to predict the future

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Clairvoyant

Back 21

a person who can see the future

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Steadfast

Back 22

steady, devoted, not wavering

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Prescient
(scient)
(pre)

Back 23

having or seeming to have knowledge of the future
knowledge
before

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Prodigious

Back 24

great in size or amount

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Spurious

Back 25

false, misleading

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Proclivity
(clin/cliv)

Back 26

a liking for or tendency toward, a penchant for, a habit
lean

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Quintessential

Back 27

the perfect example or embodiment of something

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Egregious
(greg)

Back 28

terrible, beyond the moral bounds of normal society
flock

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Acrimonious

Back 29

bitter, hurtful, acrid

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Venal

Back 30

greedy

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Laconic

Back 31

quiet, using few words, reticent

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Tacit

Back 32

unspoken, understood without the need for discussion

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Plaudit
(laud)

Back 33

an extremely favorable review or evaluation
praise

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Abstruse

Back 34

hard to understand, esoteric

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Jovial

Back 35

jolly, good-humored

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Celebrate*

Back 36

to praise publicly

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Abstain

Back 37

to deny oneself, to refrain from

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Amicable
(ami)

Back 38

friendly, describes relationships
friend

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Approbation

Back 39

approval

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Virile

Back 40

manly

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Vestigial

Back 41

remaining, left over, extant

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Vigilant

Back 42

watchful, careful

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Circumspect
(circum)
(spect)

Back 43

wise, seeing all the angles; well-considered
circle
see

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Unscrupulous

Back 44

immoral

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Scrupulous

Back 45

moral; careful, meticulous

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Uncanny

Back 46

seemingly impossible or supernatural

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Canny

Back 47

shrewd, careful, clever

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Consternation

Back 48

extreme frustration

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Censure

Back 49

to criticize, to scold

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Gregarious

Back 50

social, outgoing, friendly

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Garrulous

Back 51

excessively talkative

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Din

Back 52

a loud, confused noise, as in that of a crowd

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Insipid

Back 53

unbearably dull or flavorless, banal

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Obfuscate

Back 54

to confuse, to make unclear

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Auspicious

Back 55

signaling good luck, as in a good omen