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SAT Vocab

From Princeton Review’s Hit Parade. SAT Vocab. Week 1: 1.Intuitive. Knowing or perceiving quickly and readily. 2. Paramount. Of chief concern or importance. 3. Urbane. Notably polite and elegant in manner; suave. 4. Epiphany. A sudden burst of understanding or discovery. 5. Trenchant.

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SAT Vocab

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  1. From Princeton Review’s Hit Parade SAT Vocab

  2. Week 1:1.Intuitive • Knowing or perceiving quickly and readily

  3. 2. Paramount Of chief concern or importance

  4. 3. Urbane Notably polite and elegant in manner; suave

  5. 4. Epiphany A sudden burst of understanding or discovery

  6. 5. Trenchant Keen, incisive

  7. 6. Whimsical Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable

  8. 7.Emulate To try to equal or excel, especially through imitiation

  9. 8. Nascent Coming into existence; emerging

  10. 9. Novice A beginner

  11. 10. Laudatory Expressing great praise

  12. Week 31. Incumbent Imposed as a duty; obligatory

  13. 2. Indigenous Originating and living in a particular area

  14. 3. Innate Possessed at birth; inborn

  15. 5. Parochial Narrow in scope

  16. 6. Pervasive Having the quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time

  17. 7. Penitent Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds

  18. 8. Vindicated Freed from blame

  19. 9. Jurisprudence The philosophy or science of law

  20. 10. Biased Prejudiced

  21. Week 41. Immutable Not able to be changed

  22. 2. Mundane Commonplace; ordinary

  23. 3. Prosaic Unimaginative; dull

  24. 4. Prudent Exercising good judgement

  25. 5. Tenent A principle held as being true by a person or an organization

  26. 6. Stoic Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive

  27. 7. Austere Somber; stern

  28. 8. Genre Describing a category of artistic endeavor

  29. 9. Staid Characterized by a strait-laced sense of seriousness

  30. 10. Archaic Characteristic of an earlier, more primitive period; old-fashioned

  31. 2. Nocturnal • Of or occuring at night

  32. Week #5 • Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ in two weeks • Lists 1-6 • Best ways to study? • Kind of quiz?

  33. 1. Temperate • Moderate, mild

  34. 2. Nocturnal • of or relating to the night

  35. 3. Conflagration • A widespread fire

  36. 4. Arid • Describing a dry, rainless climate

  37. 5. Curtail • To cut short, abbreviate

  38. 6. Terse • Brief and to the point, concise

  39. 7. Purist • One who is particularly concerned with maintaining traditional practices

  40. 8. Pragmatic • practical

  41. 9. Frank • Open and sincere in expression, straightforward

  42. 10. Candor • Sincerity, openess

  43. Week #6 • Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ this Friday! Lists 1-6

  44. 1. Volition • Will, conscious choice

  45. 2. Voluntary • Willing, unforced

  46. 3. Didactic • Instructive; intended to instruct

  47. 4. Disparate • Different; incompatable

  48. 5. Disparage • To belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about

  49. 6. Ephemeral • Short-lived; not lasting

  50. 7. Compliant • Yielding; submissive

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