PSAT Vocab 1-16

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abate (v) abridge (v) adjudicate (v) admonish (v) amorphous (adj) anachronism (n) anomaly (n) anthology (n) astute (adj) atrophy (v) banal (adj) beguile (v) benediction (n) benefactor (n) benevolent (adj) benign (adj) brevity (n) brusque (adj) callous (adj) capricious (adj) caustic (adj) censure (n) choleric (adj) circumlocution (n) clandestine (adj) coalesce (v) colloquial (adj) concise (adj) contempt (n) convoke (v) deference (n) derogatory (adj) diatribe (n) eclectic (adj)

to subside; to decrease in intensity to shorten a written text to hear and judge a case to reprimand mildly lacking shape, changeable in form something out of place in time unusual event a collection of works shrewd; keen to weaken from disuse ordinary, trivial to deceive with charm an expression of good wishes one who supports or helps another kind; considerate harmless quality of succinct expression rudely abrupt hardened; insensitive whimsical; impulsive corrosive; sarcastic official condemnation; harsh critcism easily angered evasive speech; talking around the subject secret; hidden to blend or fuse together conversational; using everyday language brief and to the point scorn; disrespect to call together respect for the wishes of others disparaging; belittling malicious criticism or abuse made up of parts from many different sources

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elocution (n) eloquent (adj) ephemeral (adj) eulogy (n) euphemism (n)

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evanescent (adj) 41. extemporaneous (adj) 42. formidable (adj) 43. grandiloquent (adj) 44. guile (n) 45. hackneyed (adj) 46. idionsyncracy (n) 47. immutable (adj) 48. impervious (adj) 49. indomitable (adj) 50. inert (adj) 51. insipid (adj) 52. judicious (adj) 53. laconic (adj) 54. languid (adj) 55. lassitude (n) 56. lethargic (adj) 57. listless (adj) 58. loquacious (adj) 59. melancholy (adj) 60. mercurial (adj) 61. metamorphosis (n) 62. mundane (adj) 63. perjure (v) 64. phlegmatic (adj) 65. pious (adj) 66. placid (adj) 67. porous (adj) 68. potent (adj) 69. prosaic (adj) 70. prudent (adj)

expressive delivery of public speech well spoken short-lived a praising tribute the substitution of an inoffensive term for an offensive one likely to vanish done with little or no practice awesome; hard to overcome; dreadful speaking in a pompous manner trickery; deceit overused, trite a peculiar trait or habit unchangeable incapable of being penetrated or affected unable to be conquered sluggish; inactive uninteresting, dull, without flavor showing sound judgment; prudent disposed to using few words weak; sluggish a feeling of weakness sluggish; dully apathetic sluggish; without energy very talkative sad, depressed erratic, subject to wild changes in character a transformation ordinary, typical to lie under oath sluggish showing religious reverence calm filled with many holes strong and effective unimaginative, ordinary using good judgment

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quiescent (adj) recalcitrant (adj) 73. redoubtable (adj) 74. repudiate (v) 75. revere (v) 76. robust (adj) 77. rupture (v) 78. ruthless (adj) 79. sacrilegious (adj)
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82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101.

sacrosanct (adj) sanctimonious (adj) sanctuary (n) sanguine (adj) scrutinize (v) serene (adj) sporadic (adj) spurious (adj) static (adj) stealth (n) strategem (n) succinct (adj) supercilious (adj) surreptitious (adj) synchronize (v) synthesis (n) transient (adj) transmute (v) undermine (v) vacuous (adj) wane (v) yoke (v)

resting; quiet stubbornly resistant to authority arousing fear; formidable; awesome to cast off publicly to regard with honor and devotion full of vigor to break open cruel; merciless grossly irreverent; disrespectful of something sacred profoundly sacred falsely pious or self-righteous a place of refuge; a sacred place cheerfully optimistic to examine carefully tranquil; calm; placid irregular or unpredicted; infrequent fake; counterfeit stationary sneakiness; ability to avoid detection a deceitful scheme spoken or written in a clear and precise manner full of haughty arrogance deceptive; sneaky to arrange events to occur simultaneously a fusion; a bringing together fleeting ; short-lived to transform to weaken or diminish something lacking substance to grow smaller or less intense to join different things

PSAT practice test 2 vocab

Acoustically Acquisition Aft Appalled Archetype Armament Assertive Austerely Autonomously Bedazzlement Brazier Clairvoyant Coherent Compunction Conciliatory Conform Contiguous Coup Diligent Disconcerting Discordant Egotist Erroneous Esoteric Extant Folly Garrulous Grime Hone Inadequacy Indelible Induce Indulgence

in a manner that can be heard gain, achievement At the back, rear shocked, horrified model, original protection, guard pushy, confident, firm strictly separately, independently confusion, surprise, or overpowering large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned psychic, seer, foreseeing the future logical, sticking together regret, reluctance overcoming animosity or hostility traditional, obey, adapt nearby, adjoining overthrow, take over hard-working disturbing, upsetting not in agreement or harmony a conceited and self-centered person incorrect, invalid mysterious, obscure existant foolishness, recklessness talkative filth, dirt sharpen, make perfect or complete shortage, lack of, not sufficient permanent persuade luxury, pleasure

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Inferior Innate 36. Intemperate 37. Juxtaposing 38. Lesion 39. Lineage 40. Meek 41. Meticulous 42. Microcosm
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Modesty Monochrome 45. Obscure 46. Obsolete 47. Paradox 48. Pensive 49. Philosophical 50. Portend 51. Prodigious 52. Proponents 53. Rapport 54. Remuneration 55. Repository 56. Repress 57. Resonance 58. Retard 59. Reveled 60. Reverberation 61. Sage 62. Shackled 63. Stratum 64. Stride 65. Subjective 66. Substantially 67. Timbre 68. Tractable 69. Treatise

lesser, lower natural, inborn, not established by conditioning or learning excessive, extreme to place side by side for comparison Cut, wound ancestry Gentle, submissive careful, detailed a miniature world; something that resembles something else on a very small scale freedom from vanity or conceit neutral, dull unclear, ambiguous outdated, no longer in use irony, contradictory thoughtful thoughtful, accepting foreshadow, indicate exceptional, extraordinary promoters; supporters connection, bond payment, salary warehouse, storage suppress, contain (timbre), character, quality, significance delay, slow down to enjoy echo, sound wise, clever deprived of freedom layer, section pace, tread biased, prejudiced considerably, significantly character, quality obedient, easily controlled formal essay

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Ulterior Underscore 72. Unequivocally 73. Uproot 74. Vagabond 75. Validity 76. Vigilant

hidden, mysterious emphasize clearly, obvious pull up by, destroy beggar, tramp strength, legitamacy, valid observant, cautious