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Inconspicuous

not easily seen

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Incorrigible

cannot be corrected (of behavior)

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Indecipherable

cannot be decoded; cannot be worked out

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Indecorous

not well-behaved; lacking in dignity

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Indictment

charge; legal accusation

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Indigence

extreme poverty

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Indigenous

native to a particular place

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Indiscernible

not easy to see

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Indiscriminate

without thought; random; careless

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Indomitable

unshakeable; fearless

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Ineffable

cannot be expressed in words

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Inept

clumsy

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Ineptitude

lack of ability

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Infelicity

unsuitability; inappropriateness

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Infusion

influx

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Ingenuous

naïve

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Inherent

inbuilt; genetic

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Innocuous

harmless

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Insightful

perceptive

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Insipid

flavorless; bland

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Insolence

lack of respect; rudeness

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Insolvent

bankrupt

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Insurrectionists

rebels

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Integrity

honor; honesty

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# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intemperance

lack of moderation

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intermittent

on and off; not continuous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intricate

complicated

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intrigued

interested and curious

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intuition

sixth sense; ‘gut feeling’

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Intuitions

gut feelings

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Invocation

prayer

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irascible

easily angered

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ironic

unexpected

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irony

something unexpected; use of words to convey opposite meaning

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irrefutable

cannot be proved wrong

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irreproachable

cannot be criticized. (Reproach = criticize)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irresolute

lacking firmness; inability to decide or commit

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irreverence

lack of respect

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Irreverent

lacking respect

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Jaded

tired; bored

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Jeopardize

put at risk

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Jingoism

using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Jubilant

joyful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Judicious

fair and equal

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Juxtaposition

placing two thing nest to each other

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Knack

trick; skill

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lackadaisical

lazy; careless; lax

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lament

express regret over something

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lamentable

regrettable

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Languid

having no energy or interest

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lassitude

lack of energy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Legitimate

to make legal; give approval to

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Levity

lack of seriousness; humor

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Libelous

open to prosecution for libel (Libel = written slander)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lithe

flexible

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lobby

1. to try to persuade, 2. entrance hall

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Loquacious

talkative; using too many words

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lucid

clear

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Lugubrious

mournful; very sad

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Magnanimity

generosity (of spirit)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mandate

permission

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Manifesto

statement of values

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Manipulative

deceptive; skilful at handling people

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Marred

spoiled; ruined

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Meager

small; scanty

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mediocre

average

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mellifluous

pleasant-sounding

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mendicancy

begging

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mercenary

seeking money above all else

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mercurial

rapidly changing

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Metaphor

figurative speech; using implied comparisons

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Metaphorical

not literal; figurative

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Meticulous

thorough; taking care of details

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Miffed

annoyed

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Milieu

environment; surroundings

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Miscreants

wrong-doers

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Misnomer

wrong name for something

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mitigated

made less severe

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mitigator

moderator

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Modicum

tiny amount

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mollified

calmed; pacified

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Monotonous

dull; repetitive

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Morbidity

concern with death and disease

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Motley

varied; miscellaneous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Multifaceted

having many aspects

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Multifarious

having many aspects

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Mundane

dull; ordinary

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Myopic

short-sighted (literal or metaphoric)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Naive

unsophisticated; simple and inexperienced

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Naiveté

innocence; lack of worldliness

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nascent

just begun; in an early stage of development

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nefarious

infamous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Negate

wipe out

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nihilism

belief in nothing; anarchy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nonchalant

assuming an appearance of not caring; indifferent

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nondescript

having no special qualities; ordinary

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nostalgia

longing for the past

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Nostalgic

longing for the past

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Notoriety

infamy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Obliterated

wiped out

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Obsequious

groveling

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Obtrusive

easily seen

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Occlusion

shutting out

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Officious

interfering

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Omnipotent

all powerful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Onerous

burdensome

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Opportunism

grabbing opportunities; seeking unprincipled advantage

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Opting

choosing

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Opulence

lavish display of wealth

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ornate

highly decorated

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Orthographical

concerned with writing and spelling

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ossified

become fixed and rigid

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ostentatious

showy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ousted

pushed out of a position

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Overhaul

renovate

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pacifists

people who oppose war

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Palpable

can be felt

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Panacea

remedy for all ills

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Paradoxically

counter to what one would think; contradictory

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pastoral

1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pathos

sadness; stirring the emotions

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Paucity

shortage

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pedagogy

science of teaching

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pedestrian

1. boring (adj), 2. person who walks (n)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Peevishness

childish sullenness; irritability

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Penchant

tendency; leaning toward

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Penurious

miserly

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Perfidy

treachery; betrayal

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Perquisites

‘perks’

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Personification

1. attributing human qualities to something non-human, 2. acting as an example of

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Perusal

careful reading

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Petulant

sulky

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Phlegmatic

calm

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Phobic

fearful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pilfer

steal

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Placid

calm and peaceful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Plaudits

praise

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Plausible

believable

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pliant

flexible

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Polarized

divided into two extremes

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pragmatism

practicality

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Preclude

prevent

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Precursor

fore-runner; earlier version

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Precursors

forerunners

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Predilection

liking for; penchant

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Preeminence

fame; top position

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Presumption

assuming too much

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Presumptive

presumed

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Presumptuous

assuming too much; arrogant

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pretentious

putting on an act

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Profiteer

someone who seeks to make unjustified profits

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Profligacy

wasteful and immoral behavior

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Profundity

depth (of ideas)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prognosis

outlook

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prohibitive

very expensive

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prolific

producing a lot

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Propagandist

someone who spreads ideas

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Propensity

tendency; leaning’ predilection

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Proponents

supporters

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prosaic

ordinary

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prospectus

brochure

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Provocative

provoking

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Proximity

closeness

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prudence

wisdom; caution

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Prudent

wise; cautious

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Pugnacious

aggressive

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Punctilious

meticulous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Purportedly

apparently claiming

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Purveyor

one who sells something or causes something to spread

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Qualification

something added to modify an opinion

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Quelled

suppressed

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Quixotic

idealistic; impractical

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Raiment

clothes; garments

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rambunctious

boisterous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rancor

bitterness and bad feeling

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Ratify

give official approval to

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Raze

knock down

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Razing

cutting down

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reciprocate

pay back

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reclusive

avoiding other people; solitary

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reconcile

bring disputing side together again

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Recrimination

blame

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rectitude

uprightness

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Regressive

moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rehash

revamp hurriedly/carelessly

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Remiss

wrong

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Remonstrance

criticism

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Repertoire

range; set of skills

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Repertory

story; stock; repertoire

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reprehensible

very bad

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reprieve

let off (at least temporarily)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reprimanded

scolded

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Resilience

strength; ability to withstand

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Resilient

able to spring back; strong

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Resolute

firm of purpose

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Resonance

echo

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Respite

break (from work etc.)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Resurgence

revival

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reticent

shy; unwilling to reveal information

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Retraction

removal; ‘taking back’

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Retrenchment

reducing staff or forces; conserving resources

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Reverential

showing respect

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Revisionists

people who revise; anti-revolutionaries

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rhetoric

persuasive language

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Robust

firm and strong

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rousing

stirring

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Rudimentary

elementary; basic

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Salvageable

can be saved

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sanctimonious

hypocritically holy; making a pretense of religious feeling

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sanctity

holiness

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sarcasm

sneering, bitter remarks; ironic or taunting

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Scouring

cleaning thoroughly; thorough searching

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Scrutinize

examine carefully

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Scuttled

sunk

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Secluded

lonely; isolated

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sedate

calm; placid

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Seditious

causing division or rebellion

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sedulous

thorough; eager

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Serene

peaceful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sermonized

gave moral lecture

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Shroud

1. a cover for dead body, 2. to cover

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Skeptical

doubtful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Skewed

distorted; bent

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Slipshod

careless; untidy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Solace

comfort

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Solicitousness

expressing care/concern

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sophistry

devious logic

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Soporific

sleep-inducing

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sparse

thin; not thick

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sporadic

intermittent; on and off

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Spurned

shunned; rejected

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Squander

waste

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Squelch

suppress; crush

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Steadfastness

loyalty; firmness of purpose

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Stifling

suppressing

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Stipulated

insisted

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Stoic

brave; able to tolerate whatever life throws at you

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Stringent

strict

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Substantiate

give supporting evidence

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Substantiated

backed up; given supporting evidence

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Subtle

not obvious

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Subversive

intending to overthrow

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Succinct

clear, short and well-expressed

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Succumbing

giving in to; falling under the influence of

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sundry

miscellaneous

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Supercilious

arrogant

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Supplant

replace

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Supple

flexible; pliant; lithe

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Surfeit

excess

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sustain

support

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Sustenance

support; food

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Symbiotic

mutually advantageous; close relationship

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Syncopated

with strongly accented rhythm

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tacit

unspoken; understood even thought not expressed in words

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tactile

through the sense of touch

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tangential

off the point; irrelevant

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Taunted

teased; mocked

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Temper

moderate

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Temperamental

volatile; changeable

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Temperate

mild; moderate

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Temporize

put off; procrastinate

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tenable

can be held (of an opinion, for example)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tenacious

holding firmly to idea or purpose

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tenacity

firmness of purpose

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tenuous

shaky; not firm

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Torrid

hot and steamy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Transcend

go beyond a limit

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Transitory

shot-lived

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Treacly

too sweet; over sentimental

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tremulous

hesitant

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Tribulations

troubles

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Truculence

stubbornness

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Undermine

attempt to overthrow; weaken

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Underscore

emphasize

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Understatement

making something seem less important than it is

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unequivocal

clear; cannot be misunderstood

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unqualified

without hesitation; complete and total

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unrelenting

never giving up; non-stop

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unwarranted

unjustified

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unwitting

not deliberate

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Unyielding

not giving up

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vacillated

wavered; hesitated

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Validated

proved right

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Valor

bravery

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Variegated

multicolored

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vector

carrier (of disease, for example)

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Venality

corruption

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Venerable

worthy of respect

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Verbose

wordy

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Versatility

ability to do many things

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Viable

workable; able to live or grow

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vicarious

experienced indirectly; at secondhand

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vigilant

wary; watchful

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vindication

proving right

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vindictive

seeking revenge

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Visceral

concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Volatile

1. evaporates easily, 2. easily angered; emotional

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Voluminous

large; bulky; extensive

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Vulnerable

open to attack; susceptible

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Waning

declining

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Warped

twisted; distorted

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Wary

cautious

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Watershed

1. area between two river basins, 2. turning point

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Whimsical

fickle; changeable

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Winnow

sift; separate good from bad

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Wistful

full of sadness and longing

# SAT Official Vocabulary II Wrath

anger

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