Elite SAT Vocabulary 2015: Week 14

Question 0

Vapid

Answer 0

adj. lacking interest, animation, or flavor

Question 1

Recreant

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adj. showing faithless disloyalty

n. a disloyal coward

Question 2

Juncture

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n. a point of time ; a concurrence of events

Question 3

Distraught

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adj. anxious or agitated

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Indefatigable

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adj. tireless, unceasing

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Reticence

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n. the quality or state of being silent or uncommunicative

Question 6

Exhort

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v. to urge strongly

Question 7

Reprehensible

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adj. deserving to be severely criticized

Question 8

Perennial

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adj. lasting through the years

Question 9

Fatuous

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adj. smugly foolish ; complacently stupid

Question 10

Abstinence

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n. the act of voluntarily doing without something

Question 11

Dwindle

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v. to decrease gradually until little remains

Question 12

Famine

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n. extreme and general scarcity of food

Question 13

Indigent

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adj. poor; needy; destitute

Question 14

Mendicant

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n. a beggar ; one who depends on charity for support

Question 15

Modicum

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n. a small quantity

Question 16

Parsimony

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n. excessive care in spending ; stinginess

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Paucity

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n. smallness of number ; scarcity

Question 18

Stint

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v. to limit to a certain quantity, usually small; to be sparing in giving or using
n. definite period of time spent at a particular activity

Question 19

Vacuous

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adj. lacking substance or intelligence

Question 20

Credence

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n. belief; mental acceptance as true or real

Question 21

Credentials

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n. evidence of one’s competence or authority

Question 22

Creed

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n. a system of beliefs, principles, or opinions

Question 23

Doctrinaire

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adj. inflexibly maintaining an idea without regard to practicality

Question 24

Doctrine

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n. a set of principles (religious, political, etc.); a rule of law, esp. as established by precedent

Question 25

Dogma

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n. a specific set of ideas or beliefs, esp. religious or asserted to be absolutely true

Question 26

Dogmatic

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adj. arrogantly asserting unproved principles

Question 27

Heterodox

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adj. not in agreement with accepted beliefs, esp. religious dogma

Question 28

Incredulous

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adj. disbelieving; skeptical

Question 29

Indoctrinate

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v. to teach to accept a belief uncritically

Question 30

Incarnate

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adj. in human form and shape

Question 31

Inclined

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adj. disposed; willing

Question 32

Incognito

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adv. in disguise

Question 33

Incoherent

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adj. not sticking together; not logically connected

Question 34

Incorrigible

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adj. unable to be corrected or reformed

Question 35

Incur

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v. to acquire or sustain something undesirable

Question 36

Inextricable

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adj. incapable of being solved or untangled

Question 37

Inherent

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adj. included as an essential part; intrinsic

Question 38

Innocuous

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adj. harmless

Question 39

Inoculate

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v. to inject something, esp. a medicine, in order to create immunity

Question 40

Abut

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v. to touch at one end; to be next to

Question 41

Agrarian

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adj. related to farming

Question 42

Balk

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v. to stop short and refuse to continue

Question 43

Banish

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v. to drive away; to force to leave a place by official decree

Question 44

Bereaved

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adj. suffering the loss of a loved one

Question 45

Bleak

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adj. gloomy and somber; dreary

Question 46

Brink

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n. extreme edge

Question 47

Brittle

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adj. rigid; likely to break

Question 48

Bromide

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n. commonplace remark intended to calm; platitude

Question 49

Cabal

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n. a small group of secret plotters, i.e., against a government or authority

Question 50

Clamor

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n. a loud and continuous noise

Question 51

Convoke

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v. to call together in a meeting

Question 52

Crevice

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n. a crack or narrow fissure

Question 53

Culinary

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adj. relating to the kitchen or cookery

Question 54

Destitution

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n. the lack of any means of subsistence

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Dogged

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adj. refusing to give up despite difficulties

Question 56

Embark

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v. to set off on a long trip

Question 57

Evoke

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v. to call forth or call to mind

Question 58

Explicate

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v. to give a detailed, usually learned explanation or analysis

Question 59

Exquisite

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adj. of extreme beauty or excellence

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Fervid

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adj. extremely emotional; passionate

Question 61

Filigree

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n. delicate ornamental work made of twisted wire

Question 62

Fluke

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n. an accidental stroke of good luck

Question 63

Forebear

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n. a person from whom one is descended; an ancestor (usually plural)

Question 64

Forestall

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v. to prevent or delay beforehand

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Gainsay

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v. to deny; declare false

Question 66

Hovel

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n. a small, miserable dwelling

Question 67

Impair

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v. to make worse; to damage

Question 68

Invective

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n. language that abuses or denounces

Question 69

Jinx

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n. a person or thing supposed to bring bad luck

Question 70

Larceny

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n. theft, esp. of personal property

Question 71

Lavish

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adj. generous ; extravagant

Question 72

Legacy

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n. something passed down to a descendant

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Mainstay

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n. a chief support

Question 74

Manacles

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n. shackles ; handcuffs

Question 75

Obdurate

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adj. not easily moved to pity or sympathy

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Oblivious

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adj. unaware

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Odious

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adj. arousing strong dislike or disgust

Question 78

Omen

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n. an indication of the future

Question 79

Onslaught

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n. a severe attack

Question 80

Presage

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v. to indicate or warn in advance

Question 81

Propitiate

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adj. to appease or placate

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Putative

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adj. put forth or accepted as true on inadequate grounds; supposed

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Quarry

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n. a hunted bird or animal; prey

Question 84

Quest

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n. a pursuit or search

Question 85

Rationalize

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v. to come up with self-satisfying but incorrect excuses

Question 86

Ravage

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v. to cause great destruction to

Question 87

Relegate

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v. to assign to an obscure place or condition; to send away

Question 88

Sanctuary

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n. a holy place; a place of refuge

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Secular

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adj. not religious; worldly

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Shun

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v. to avoid; to keep away from

Question 91

Sporadic

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adj. occurring irregularly

Question 92

Taint

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v. to affect with disease, decay or corruption; to spoil

Question 93

Tightfisted

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adj. stingy; miserly

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Titillate

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v. to excite or stimulate pleasurably, often erotically

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Truncate

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v. to cut short

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Unmitigated

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adj. absolute; positive; severe

Question 97

Upshot

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n. the decisive or final result

Question 98

Vie

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v. to compete

Question 99

Viscous

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adj. resistant to flow; thick (of a liquid)