ACT/SAT WORD OF THE DAY, All vocabularies with meaning, 2022

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ACT/SAT WORD OF THE DAY, All vocabularies with meaning, 2022 COPIOUS - ✔✔abundant; plentiful TENACIOUS - ✔✔tough; stubborn SURREPTITIOUS - ✔✔acting in secret; sly manner VORA... CIOUS - ✔✔eager to consume great amounts of food OFFICIOUS - ✔✔interfering; offering unwanted advice SPURIOUS - ✔✔not genuine; false ONEROUS - ✔✔troublesome or burdensome GREGARIOUS - ✔✔sociable PIOUS - ✔✔devout or virtuous; holy SCRUPULOUS - ✔✔careful of small details, honest ATTRITION - ✔✔a gradual reduction or weakening EDIFICATION - ✔✔enlighten; instruct ABLUTION - ✔✔a cleansing with water ELOCUTION - ✔✔the art of public speaking WRITHE - ✔✔to twist or bending in pain PEDESTRIAN - ✔✔ordinary; moving on feet CARRION - ✔✔dead and rotting flesh PINION - ✔✔to bind the wings; to confine AMBIVALENCE - ✔✔indecision KISMET - ✔✔fate DEPLOY - ✔✔to arrange strategically CAVALIER - ✔✔carefree and nonchalant EGG - ✔✔to encourage or incite to action METE - ✔✔to distribute by measure; to allot NULLIFY - ✔✔to make useless; cancel EMBROIL - ✔✔to involve in argument or hostile action WAFFLE - ✔✔to speak or write evasively ASCRIBE - ✔✔to attribute to a specific cause ENHANCE - ✔✔to improve; to intensify IMPAIR - ✔✔to diminish, as in strength TERSE - ✔✔to the point; concise COERCE - ✔✔to force someone by threatening DIVERSE - ✔✔different; varied ABATE - ✔✔to reduce ABIDE - ✔✔to remain; continue; stay; endure GAMBIT - ✔✔to take a risk for some advantage JAUNT - ✔✔a short pleasure trip FRANK - ✔✔marked by free and sincere expression LITHE - ✔✔bending easily and gracefully AESTHETIC - ✔✔having to do with artistic beauty GULLIBLE - ✔✔easily cheated or fooled MAWKISH - ✔✔excessively sentimental RAFFISH - ✔✔cheaply vulgar in appearance; disreputable CONTINUUM - ✔✔a continuous whole TRAVAIL - ✔✔strenuous labor or effort INTREPID - ✔✔fearless; bold LANGUID - ✔✔lacking energy; weak EXODUS - ✔✔a mass departure INFLUX - ✔✔a mass arrival or incoming ABASH - ✔✔to make ashamed or uneasy INCESSANT - ✔✔nonstop LATENT - ✔✔laying hidden; potential ELOQUENT - ✔✔extremely expressive in speech DIFFIDENT - ✔✔lacking self-confidence; timid MALCONTENT - ✔✔dissatisfied; unhappy person EMINENT - ✔✔standing out, renowned WINCE - ✔✔to flinch; to shrink back PRUDENT - ✔✔cautious; good judgment AUGMENT - ✔✔to make or become greater EBULLIENCE - ✔✔enthusiastic RHETORIC - ✔✔over elaborate language or speech DOGMATIC - ✔✔an arrogant assertion of opinions PHILIPPIC - ✔✔insulting language; a tirade PANDEMIC - ✔✔widespread; general IDYLLIC - ✔✔something naturally peaceful CRYPTIC - ✔✔having a hidden meaning CHOLERIC - ✔✔hot-tempered; quick to anger PECCADILLO - ✔✔a minor offense EMPHATIC - ✔✔forcibly expressive LOGISTICS - ✔✔managing the details of an operation CIRCUMSPECT - ✔✔cautious ABSTRACT - ✔✔difficult to understand DEFUNCT - ✔✔dead or inactive SUCCINCT - ✔✔brief and to the point PALPABLE - ✔✔capable of being touched or felt ACCOUNTABLE - ✔✔responsible OSTENSIBLE - ✔✔offered as genuine or real PLIABLE - ✔✔receptive to change; easily bent ADROIT - ✔✔skillful; deft BAUBLE - ✔✔a small, inexpensive trinket SKULLDUGGERY - ✔✔trickery ANCILLARY - ✔✔providing assistance SEDENTARY - ✔✔characterized by sitting; little exercise CURSORY - ✔✔rapid and superficial PREDATORY - ✔✔victimizing or destroying others SYMMETRY - ✔✔exact form of sides of a line TAWDRY - ✔✔gaudy and cheap in appearance AMBULATORY - ✔✔capable of walking IDOLATRY - ✔✔excessive devotion to something PECUNIARY - ✔✔consisting of or relating to money PANORAMA - ✔✔unbroken view of a wide area SAGA - ✔✔long story PLETHORA - ✔✔superabundance GRADIENT - ✔✔a rate of inclination; a slope ADHERENT - ✔✔a follower of a leader; supporter VENT - ✔✔outlet; to release PRESENTIMENT - ✔✔premonition; a sense that something is going to occur ARMAMENT - ✔✔military supplies and weapons CORPULENT - ✔✔fat; obese CIRCUMVENT - ✔✔to surround; enclose ATONE - ✔✔to make amends [Show More]

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