500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022

500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022 abstract - ✔✔theoretical; not concrete abstruse - ✔✔hard to understand acclaim - ✔✔praise; applaud accolade - ✔✔an award, or praise acquies ...

500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022 abstract - ✔✔theoretical; not concrete abstruse - ✔✔hard to understand acclaim - ✔✔praise; applaud accolade - ✔✔an award, or praise acquiescent - ✔✔reluctantly agreeable; compliant acrimony - ✔✔words or behavior filled with harshness or anger adamant - ✔✔refusing to change; stubborn, unyielding adroit - ✔✔skillful in physical activity, or in handling difficult situations advocate - ✔✔support; plead for; speak on behalf of affable - ✔✔friendly; easy-going affirmation - ✔✔positive statement; assertion; agreement alienate - ✔✔to push someone way, or cause him to separate from people aloof - ✔✔detached; apart; indifferent altruistic - ✔✔unselfish; caring ambidextrous - ✔✔able to use both hands with equal skill ambiguous - ✔✔unclear; vague; having several possible interpretations ambivalence - ✔✔indecision; feeling of being pulled in two directions ameliorate - ✔✔to make an unpleasant situation better; to improve amity - ✔✔friendship amorphous - ✔✔without form or shape analogous - ✔✔similar anarchy - ✔✔a lack of order; chaos anathema - ✔✔a religious curse, or the thing or person being cursed antagonistic - ✔✔in hostile competition; opposing antiquated - ✔✔too old to be useful; outdated; obsolete antithesis - ✔✔opposite apathy - ✔✔lack of interest or concern apex - ✔✔top; highest point; summit appease - ✔✔calm; pacify arbitrary - ✔✔selected by random choice and without solid reason arcane - ✔✔secret; mysterious archaic - ✔✔old; antiquated arrogant - ✔✔acting superior, obnoxious, smug or rude articulate - ✔✔able to speak clearly and effectively ascendance - ✔✔domination; controlling power ascetic - ✔✔person who rejects physical comfort and luxuy for self-discipline asperity - ✔✔roughness; harshness; irritability assail - ✔✔attack with words or force assiduous - ✔✔persistent; hard-working; diligent; attentive to detail assuage - ✔✔relieve; ease; pacify astute - ✔✔wise; insightfully clever; shrewd atrophy - ✔✔waste away; wither audacious - ✔✔brazen; brash; nervy augment - ✔✔make larger; increase auspicious - ✔✔taking place under promising conditions; likely to succeed austere - ✔✔stern; plain; without luxuries avarice - ✔✔greed averse - ✔✔feeling repelled; wanting to avoid baleful - ✔✔harmful; menacing banal - ✔✔boring; trite; insipid beguile - ✔✔to cheat or deceive, usually through charm; to amuse belie - ✔✔to give an impression that is the opposite of the way things really are; to misrepresent belligerent - ✔✔having a strong tendency to argue and fight benediction - ✔✔good wishes; a blessing benevolent - ✔✔kindhearted; good-natured; generous benign - ✔✔gentle; kind-hearted; mild bequeath - ✔✔to leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit blight - ✔✔decay; disease; widespread death bolster - ✔✔to support; to reinforce bombast - ✔✔speech or writing intended to impress the audience; pompous brevity - ✔✔briefness; conciseness bumptious - ✔✔pushy; obnoxiously self-assertive cacophony - ✔✔harshness of sound; opposite of harmony cajole - ✔✔to fool with flattery or false promises; coax; deceive candor - ✔✔honesty; frankness capacious - ✔✔large; roomy; spacious capitulate - ✔✔surrender; yield capricious - ✔✔unpredictable castigate - ✔✔scold; punish caustic - ✔✔burning, either with chemicals or sarcasm celerity - ✔✔speed censure - ✔✔to criticize chasten - ✔✔punish; discipline; castigate chastise - ✔✔scold; punish; castigate choler - ✔✔anger circumscribe - ✔✔draw a line around; define limits; confine; restrict circumspect - ✔✔cautious clemency - ✔✔mercy coalesce - ✔✔unite; grow together cloister - ✔✔secluded or isolated from the outside world; also, a place of seclusion coerce - ✔✔to force someone by threatening or physically overpowering him complacent - ✔✔self-satisfied; unconcerned compliant - ✔✔following someone else's demands; comforming; obeying composure - ✔✔calmness; equanimity concede - ✔✔admit reluctantly; yield concise - ✔✔short and to the point; terse concur - ✔✔agree condone - ✔✔to overlook, excuse, or pardon confound - ✔✔to mix up (in your own mind); or, to confuse someone else consonance - ✔✔a blending of sounds or opinions; harmony; agreement consummate - ✔✔to complete or make whole contend - ✔✔to argue a point or position; or, to struggle for contingent - ✔✔dependent upon other circumstances; conditional contract - ✔✔squeeze together; shrink contrite - ✔✔sorry; penitent