SAT week 5 Flashcards
1
Q
colloquial
A
local and informal language
2
Q
dotard
A
foolish old man
3
Q
misnomer
A
wrong name
4
Q
percipient
A
perceptive, insightful
5
Q
quaff
A
drink down quickly
6
Q
staunch
A
loyal, faithful
7
Q
vilification
A
blackening someone’s name
8
Q
collusion
A
plotting and planning
9
Q
furtive
A
hidden and secret
10
Q
insurgent
A
a rebel
11
Q
misogynist
A
hater of women
12
Q
perdition
A
damnation
13
Q
quagmire
A
marsh, bog
14
Q
vindicate
A
prove right, remove blame
15
Q
attenuate
A
weaken
16
Q
commandeer
A
take possession of
17
Q
drivel
A
nonsense
18
Q
futile
A
useless, hopeless
19
Q
interminable
A
never-ending
20
Q
peremptory
A
in a commanding manner
21
Q
quaint
A
picturesque
22
Q
stevedore
A
dockworker
23
Q
augment
A
increase, make bigger
24
Q
complacent
A
self-satisfied, smug
25
droll
dryly amusing
26
mitigate
lessen, make less severe
27
perfidy
treachery
28
quandary
dilemma, puzzle
29
stifle
suppress
30
virulent
dangerous, harmful
31
auspicious
favorable, promising to turn out well
32
drone
monotonous voice
to speak with no emotion
male bee
33
gambol
frolic, leap, bound
34
intransigence
stubbornness
35
modicum
small amount
36
perfunctory
superficial, hasty and therefore not throrough
37
stoic
courage in pain or adversity = fortitude
| indifferent to pleasure or pain
38
austere
severely plain
39
concatenate
link together
40
dubious
doubtful
41
garble
distort, confuse
42
intransigent
stubborn
43
momentous
very important
44
peripatetic
nomadic
45
quarry
something that is hunted
| mine for stone
46
stoke
add fuel to, strengthen
47
vitriolic
corrosive
48
aversion
a dislike of
49
concatenation
linking into chains
50
intrepid
brave
51
peripheral
on the edge
| not important
52
querulous
always complaining
53
stolid
impassive, dull
54
vivacity
liveliness, animation
55
balk
hinder and prevent
| hesitate over
56
conciliate
to bring together
| end a dispute
57
garner
gather, collect
58
inveterate
habitual
59
moratorium
temporary prohibition
60
perjury
telling lies under oath
61
vivify
enlighten
62
banal
common, dull
63
ebullient
very lively, cheerful
64
garrulous
talkative
65
invidious
arousing envy
66
moribund
on the point of death
67
strident
loud and harsh
68
vociferous
noise, loud in speech
69
banality
ordinariness
70
condescend
talk down to
71
gaunt
abnormally thin and weak, bony and angular
72
inviolable
cannot be invaded
73
morose
gloomy, bad tempered
74
persnickety
fastidious, fussy
75
ramifications
branches, subdivisions
| outcomes
76
stringent
strict or severe
