SAT Words

Question 1

Tenuous

Answer 1

weak or fine

Question 2

nebulous

Answer 2

unclear

Question 3

incarcerated

Answer 3

imprisoned

Question 4

avarice

Answer 4

greed

Question 5

insatiable

Answer 5

impossible to satisfy

Question 6

loftiness

Answer 6

an exaggerated sense of one’s importance

Question 7

uncouth

Answer 7

lacking good manners; uncomfortable

Question 8

Nonwithstanding

Answer 8

inspite of/ nevertheless

Question 9

sepulcher

Answer 9

a small room or monument in which a dead person is burried

Question 10

Relinquished

Answer 10

voluntarily give up

Question 11

veracity

Answer 11

accuracy

Question 12

precarious

Answer 12

likely to fall or collapse

Question 13

pedestrian

Answer 13

dull and unconcerned

Question 14

boon

Answer 14

something helpful or beneficial

Question 15

duress

Answer 15

threats; constrain illegally to force someone to do something; forcible restraint/imprisonment

Question 16

disingenuous

Answer 16

no candid usually pretending to know less than they actually do

Question 17

stoic

Answer 17

someone who can endure pain without showing emotion

Question 18

prosaic

Answer 18

style of prose and not poetry; unromantic, commonplace

Question 19

fracas

Answer 19

noisy quarrel

Question 20

condescended

Answer 20

showing superiority

Question 21

concerted

Answer 21

united; coordinated