Week Two: Dalby's SAT Vocabulary List

1. provincial adj. narrow-minded; rustic

2. impunity n. exemption from punishment or penalty

3. equanimity n. calmness, imperturbability

4. alacrity n. cheerful eagerness; sprightliness

5. fortitude n. strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage

6. galvanize v. to arouse awareness or action

7. rebuke v. scold, castigate; upbraid

8. sanguine adj. hopeful

9. dire adj. warning of disaster; urgent; grave

10. tenuous adj. thin, insubstantial; flimsy

11. florid adj. heavily embellished; flowery; flushed; ruddy.

12. raucous adj. boisterous, disorderly

13. eclectic adj. drawn from different sources

14. indigenous adj. native, aborigine

15. pedestrian adj. commonplace

16. bereavement n. grief; mourning the death of another

17. animosity n. enmity; bitter hostility

18. elucidate v. to make clear, lucid adj. clear, luz, luc, lux = light

19. pugnacity n. aggressiveness, pugilist n. a boxer, pugnacious adj. aggressive

20. gullible adj. easily deceived or duped

21. posterity n. future generations

22. eloquence n. fluid and persuasive discourse, circumlocution n. talk that goes in circles, loc, loq = talk

23. misanthrope n. one who hates mankind, ant. philanthrope, philanthropist n. humanitarian

24. nocturnal adj. occurring at night, ant. diurnal

25. cerebral adj. pertaining to the brain

26. reticent adj. disinclined to speak out

27. zealot n. fanatic

28. ardent adj. passionate

29. officious adj. excessively forward in offering service or advice

30. superfluous adj. unnecessary

31. impetuous adj. impulsive

32. disparage v. belittle

33. vindicate v. to clear of blame

34. veneer n. a thin layer of material used to cover an inferior material

35. embellish v. to decorate

36. transcend v. to rise above, surpass; exceed, trans = move

37. apprehension n. fearfulness

38. disquiet v. to make uneasy, to trouble

39. exemplary adj. admirable, ideal

40. trite adj. overused, lacking in originality

41. pliancy n. receptive to change

42. shroud v. & n. to cover with a cloth; a burial cloth

43. torpid adj. sluggish

44. belligerent adj. aggressively hostile, warlike, cf. bellicose, belli = war

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