SAT-Words

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• Abhor to dislike something very much, usually because it is immoral.
• Abjure To make a public promise to give up something such as a belief or activity
• Abortive Not finished and therefore not successful
• Abrogate To officially get rid of a law or political arrangement, often without the agreement of the other people.
• Abstemious To officially get rid of a law or political arrangement, often without the agreement of the other people.
• Accost To stop someone and speak to them, especially in a way that could annoy them or make them feel embarrassed.
• Acme Höjdpunkt
• Acrimonious an X situation is unpleasant because people feel angry towards each other
• Adroit Clever or skillful
• Alacrity brisk and cheerful readiness
• Altruistic Unselfish
• Ameliorate Make something bad better
• Amicable Vänskapligt
• Anathema Something or someone that one dislikes
• Annals A record of events year by year
• Anomaly Anomali
• Appellation Giving a name to someone or something.
• Ardent Showing strong positive feelings about an activity and determination to succeed at it.
• Artifice The use of clever tricks to deceive someone
• Artless 1, Natural honest 2, made or done without skill.
• Asperity saying something in a way that use rough or severe, showing that you are feeling impatient.
• Assiduous Careful to make sure that something is done properly.
• Audacity Having courage to take risks or say impolite things
• Banal ordinary and not interesting.
• Belligerent Very unfriendly and wanting to argue or fight.
• Benignity Välvilja
• Blatant Done openly and unashamedly
• Brash Self-assertive in a rude, noisy way
• Burgeon Begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
• Cabal A secret political clique or faction
• Cache A collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place.
• Cajole Persuade someone to do something by flattery.
• Callous Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
• Cant Hypocritical talk, typically of a moral, religious or political nature.
• Capricious Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior; unpredictable.
• Caustic Frätande
• Celerity Swiftness of movement.
• Choleric Bad tempered
• Clique Close-knit group of people
• Cogent Clear, logical and convincing
• Complacent Självbelåten
• Complicity Being involved with others in illegal activity.
• Conflagration a fire which destroys a great deal of land or property
• Conjecture An opinion formed on the basis of incomplete information
• Consternation A feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected.
• Contort Bend out of normal shape.
• Culpable deserving blame
• Cursory Hasty and therefore not thorough
• Dearth Lack of something
• Debris Scattered pieces of remains
• Decadence Moral or cultural decline, often characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure.
• Decrepit Worn out or ruined because of age or neglect.
• Deleterious Causing harm or damage
• Demur Raise objections or show reluctance
• Denouement The final part of a play
• Derogatory Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude
• Desultory Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
• Detriment The state of being harmed or damaged.
• Diatribe A forceful and bitter verbal attack
• Dilatory Slow to act.
• Discern 1, To notice something, especially after thinking about it carefully or studying it. 2, to see or hear something, especially something that is far away or not very clear.
• Disparate olikartad
• Disseminate To give information to many people
• Duress Force or threats that make someone do something they do not want to do.
• Edifice 1, a large impressive building. 2, A complicated system of policy
• Efficacy Effectiveness in producing the result that you intended.
• Egregious Extremely bad
• Elicit to make someone react in the way that you want.
• Eminent Important, respected and admired.
• Encomium a speech or piece of writing in which you express strong approval or admiration.
• Enervated feeling tired and weak.
• Ennui boredom
• Epitome 1, The epitome of a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type. 2, A summary of written work
• Eschew Abstain from
• Evanescent soon passing out of sight, memory or existence.
• Exacerbate Make a bad situation, or feeling worst.
• Excoriate Criticize severely
• Exculpate Declare that someone is not guilty.
• Exonerate absolve someone from blame for a fault
• Expunge Obliterate completely something unpleasant.
• Extenuate Lessen the seriousness of guilt or an offence.
• Extol praise enthusiastically
• Extortion The practice of obtaining something, often money, through force or threats.
• Facetious Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour
• Factitious Artificially created or developed.
• Fallacious based on a mistaken belief
• Fastidious Very attentive about accuracy and detail
• Fatuous Silly and pointless
• Felicitous Well chosen or suited to the circumstances
• Flagrant adjective of an action considered wrong or immoral or offensive.
• Foist impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing.
• Fortuitous Happening by chance
• Fraught (of a situation) filled with (something undesirable).
• Fulsome Flattering to an excessive degree
• Garrulous Excessively talkative on trivial matters
• Germane Relevant to a subject under consideration.
• Gesticulate Gestikulera
• Gregarious (of a person) fond of company
• Guile Sly or cunning intelligence
• Guise Appearance or manner of presentation, concealing the true nature of something.
• Heinous (Of a person or act) utterly odious or wicked.
• Histrionics Melodramatic behaviour designed to attract attention.
• Hyperbole Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
• Ignominious Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
• Impeccable In accordance with the highest standards.
• Importune harass (someone) persistently for or to do something.
• Impunity Exemption from punishment.
• Inchoate Just begun and so not fully formed or developed.
• Indict formally accuse of a crime
• Indigent a needy person.
• Indolent lazy
• Inebriated Make (someone) drunk
• Inexorable Impossible to stop or prevent
• Ingratiate bring onself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them
• Insatiable Impossible to satisfy
• Internecine Destructive to both sides in a conflict.
• Intrepid fearless
• Inundate Overwhelm (someone) with things to be dealt with; flood
• Inveigh Speak or write about something with great hostility.
• Itinerant travelling from place to place.
• Jaunty having or expressing a lively, cheerful and self-confident manner.
• Juxtapose place or deal with close together for contrasting effect.
• Laconic using very few words
• Lassitude Lack of energy
• Lethargic Sluggish and apathetic
• Lithe (of a person’s body) thin, supple and grateful.
• Livid furiously angry; dark, bluish grey in colour.
• Loathe feel intense dislike or disgust for.
• Lugubrious Looking or sounding sad and dismal.
• Lurid Unpleasantly bright in colour.
• Malevolent having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
• Malleable being able to shape without breaking or cracking.
• Martinet A person who demands complete obedience
• Maudlin self-pitying or tearfully sentimental
• Mendacious Not telling the truth.
• Mien Uppsyn
• Miscreant behaving badly or unlawfully.
• Moribund at the point of death.
• Munificent Characterized by or displaying great generosity
• Myriad A countless or extremely great number of people or things.
• Nascent (Of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
• Nefarious (typically of an action) wicked or criminal.
• Noisome having an extremely offensive smell.
• Nominal (of a role or status) existing in name only; (of a price or charge) very small; (of a quantity or dimension) stated or expressed, but not necessarily corresponding to the real value.
• Obliterate destroy utterly
• Obloquy Strong public condemnation.
• Obsequious Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree.
• Obsolescence the process of becoming obsolete or outdated and no longer used.
• Ominous giving the worrying impression that something bad is happening.
• Opprobrium Harsh criticism of censure; • public disgrace arising from shameful conduct
• Ostentatious Characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress.
• Ostensible stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
• Ostracize exclude from a society or group.
• Overt done or shown openly.
• Palliate make (a disease) less severe without removing the cause;disguise the seriousness of (an offence).
• Panacea a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
• Paragon a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
• Pariah an outcast
• Paroxysm a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity
• Parsimonious very unwilling to spend money or use resources.
• Paucity the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
• Penchant A strong or habitual liking for something
• Penury The state of being very poor
• Peregrination Journey, especially a long one.
• Perfidious deceitful and untrustworthy
• Perfunctory carried out without real interest, feeling or effort.
• Pernicious having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
• Perspicacious having a ready insight into and understanding of things
• Peruse read something in a thorough or careful way
• Pique a feeling of irritation and resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one’s pride.
• Plaintiff a person who brings a case against another in a court of law
• Plethora A large or excessive amount of something.
• Poignant evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
• Precipitate cause (to situation, typically undesirable) to happen suddenly; Made, or acting suddenly or without careful consideration.
• Prerogative a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.
• Prescient Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place
• Presentiment an intuitive feeling about the future.
• Proffer an intuitive feeling about the future
• Profligate Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
• Promulgate promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
• Propitious giving or indicating a good chance of success
• Puissant Having great power or influence
• Qualm an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry or fear, especially about one’s own conduct.
• Quip a witty remark.
• Raconteur a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
• Rapacious aggressively greedy or grasping
• Rebuke Express sharp disapproval of criticism of someone because of their behaviour.
• Recondite little known.
• Remuneration money paid for work or a service
• Repine feel or express discontent.
• Replete filled or well-supplied with something
• Reticent not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily
• Retort say something in answer to a remark, typically in a sharp, angry or witty manner.
• Risible provoking laughter through being ludicrous
• Salubrious Health-giving; healthy
• Sanguine Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently difficult situation.
• Satiety The feeling or state of being sated.
• Scion A descendant of a notable family
• Scurrilous Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation
• Shibboleth A custom, principle or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important
• Sinecure (especially of written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed
• Succinct (especially of written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed
• Sultry (of weather) hot and humid; (especially of a woman) displaying or suggesting a strongly sexual nature
• Tortuous Full of twists and turns.
• Trenchant Vigorous or incisive in expression or style
• Turpitude Depraved or wicked behavior or character.
• Ubiquitous present, appearing or found everywhere
• Umbrage Offence or annoyance
• Unconscionable not right or reasonable
• Unctuous Excessively flattering
• Viscid Having a sticky consistency.
• Vitiate Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
• Vituperation bitter and abusing language
• Voluble Talking fluently, readily, or incessantly

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