Top 100 SAT Words, part 2

Abate become less in amount or intensity

Abdicate give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

Aesthetic concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste

Anachronistic chronologically misplaced

Arid lacking sufficient water or rainfall

Asylum a shelter from danger or hardship

Boisterous full of rough and exuberant animal spirits, loud or noisy

Brazen unrestrained by convention or propriety

Brusque marked by rude or peremptory shortness

Camaraderie the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

Capitulate surrender under agreed conditions

Clairvoyant someone who has the power of clairvoyance

Compromise an accomodation in which both sides make concessions

Conditional imposing or depending on or containing a condition

Conundrum a difficult problem

Convergence the act of converging (coming closer)

Deleterious harmful of living things

Demagogue a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices

Divergent tending to move apart in different directions, different

Ephemeral anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

Evanescent tending to vanish like vapor

Extenuating partially excusing or justifying

Florid elaborately or excessively ornamented

Forbearance a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting

Fortuitous occuring by happy chance

Foster providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties

Hackneyed repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

Hedonist someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures

Hypothesis a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certaine facts or phenomena

Impute attribute or credit to

Intrepid invulnerable to fear or intimidation

Jubilation a feeling of extreme joy

Lobbyist someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer

Longevity the property of being long-lived

Opulent rich and superior in quality

Orator a person who delivers a speech or oration

Parched dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

Perfidious tending to betray; especially having treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

Precocious characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity

Prosaic lacking wit or imagination, unimaginative

Querulous habitually complaining

Rancorous showing deep-seated resentment

Reclusive withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

Renovation the act of improving by renewing and restoring

Sagacity the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

Spontaneous said or done without having been planned or written in advnce

Spurious plausible but false

Superficial of, affecting, or being on or near the surface

Surreptitious marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

Venerable profoundly honored

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