SAT Class 2 vocab words

Question 1

cogent

Answer 1

cogent (KOH junt) adj convincing; reasonable

Question 2

compelling

Answer 2

compelling (kum PEL ing) adj forceful; urgently demanding attention

Question 3

didactic

Answer 3

didactic (dye DAK tik) adj intended to teach; morally instructive

Question 4

dogmatic

Answer 4

dogmatic (dawg MAT ik) adj characterized by stubborn adherence to insufficiently proved beliefs

Question 5

poignant

Answer 5

poignant (POYN yunt) adj profoundly moving; touching

Question 6

Abstruse

Answer 6

(ab STROOS) adj hard to understand

Question 7

Arduous

Answer 7

(AHR joo us) adj difficult; painstaking

Question 8

futile

Answer 8

futile - having no useful purpose

Question 9

specious

Answer 9

specious (SPEE shus) adj having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false

Question 10

clarity

Answer 10

clarity - clearness in thought or expression

Question 11

cohesive

Answer 11

cohesive - condition of sticking together

Question 12

convoluted

Answer 12

convoluted - intricate; complex

Question 13

effusive

Answer 13

effusive - describing unrestrained emotional expression; gushy

Question 14

emphatic

Answer 14

emphatiac - expressed with emphasis

Question 15

florid

Answer 15

florid - describing flowery or elaborate speech

Question 16

fluid

Answer 16

fluid - easily flowing

Question 17

rapport

Answer 17

rapport - a relationship of mutual trust or affinity

Question 18

adage

Answer 18

adage - a wise old saying

Question 19

heinous

Answer 19

heinous - hatefully evil; abominable

Question 20

impede

Answer 20

impede - to slow the progress of

Question 21

impenetrable

Answer 21

impenetrable - incapable of being understood

Question 22

slander

Answer 22

slander - false charges and malicious oral statements or reports about someone

Question 23

ruse

Answer 23

ruse - a crafty trick

Question 24

egregious

Answer 24

egregious - conspicuously bad or offensive

Question 25

facetious

Answer 25

facetious - playfully humorous

Question 26

pander

Answer 26

pander - to cater to the lower tastes or desires of others or exploit their weaknesses

Question 27

propriety

Answer 27

propriety - appropriateness of behaviour

Question 28

wry

Answer 28

wry - dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony

Question 29

lampoon

Answer 29

lampoon - (noun or verb) - a broad satirical piece; or to broadly satire

Question 30

parody

Answer 30

parody - an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect

Question 31

abdicate

Answer 31

abdicate - to formally give up power

Question 32

annihilate

Answer 32

annihilate - to destroy completely

Question 33

benevolent

Answer 33

benevolent - kind; generous

Question 34

despotic

Answer 34

despotic - characterized by exercising absolute power tyrannically

Question 35

dictatorial

Answer 35

dictatorial - domineering; oppressively overbearing

Question 36

haughty

Answer 36

haughty - condescendingly proud

Question 37

imperious

Answer 37

imperious - arrogantly domineering or overbearing

Question 38

omnipotent

Answer 38

omnipotent - all-powerful

Question 39

patronizing

Answer 39

patronizing - treating in a condescending manner

Question 40

usurp

Answer 40

usurp - to take by force