LIST 1 Abhor verb To hate Bigot noun

LIST 1

Abhor - verb • To hate

Bigot - noun • narrowminded, prejudiced person

Counterfeit - adjective • fake; false

Enfranchise - verb • To give voting rights

Hamper - verb • To hinder; obstruct

Kindle - verb • To start a fire

Placid – adjective • calm; peaceful

Abrasive - adjective • rough; coarse; harsh

Noxious - adjective • harmful; poisonous; lethal

Talisman - noun • lucky charm

SAT WORD LIST 3

Acuity- adjective sharpness (mental or visual)

Braggart - noun someone who boasts

Epitomized - verb typified; characterized; personified

Languish - verb decay; fade away; get weaker

Obsequious - adjective servile; submissive

Polemical - adjective causing debate or argument

Thwart - verb prevent; frustrate

Adamant - adjective forceful; inflexible

Brawny - adjective muscular

Equivocate - verb speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth

List 4

• Period 3 vocabulary

Accolade - noun • praise

Conception - noun • 1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy

Denounce - verb • To speak out against something

Disdain – verb • To show contempt for

Inept - adjective • Clumsy, not good at something

Mitigate - verb • To make less severe

Nascent - adjective • just begun; in an early stage of development

Obtrusive - adjective • Easily seen

Profligate - adjective • wasteful and immoral behavior

Resurgence - noun • revival

List 5

EXPEDIENT - ADJ • convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral.

ALACRITY - NOUN • brisk and cheerful readiness.

CONSCIENCE - NOUN • an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

PERTINENT - ADJ • relevant or applicable to a particular matter; connecting to something

SCOURGE - NOUN • a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.

HOMAGE - NOUN • special honor or respect shown publicly.

INTRUDE - VERB • put oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is unwelcome or uninvited.

ADVOCATE - VERB • publicly recommend or support.

FRICTION - NOUN • the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

ABOLISH - VERB • formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).

LIST 6

abstain v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).

blithe adj. joyous

breach - noun a violation of an official duty

callow - adj without experience in the world; inexperienced or immature

catastrophe - noun any sudden or great misfortune

improper - adj not being appropriate, unfit, or unseemly

impromptu - adj anything said or done in the impulse of a moment

rectify - verb to correct

sinuous - adj curving in and out

upheaval - noun overthrow or violent disturbance of an established order

List 7

Congenial – adjective • friendly

Contumacious – adjective • rebellious

Amiable - adjective • Good-natured, polite

Plebian – adjective • Crude, common, low nature

Onerous - adjective • Troublesome, difficult, oppressive

Itinerate - adjective • traveling

Indolent - adjective • Lazy, inactive

Sedentary - adjective • Sitting, remaining in one place

Endemic - adjective • widespread

Destitute - adjective • poor

List 8

Desiccated - adjective • dried

Indigent - adjective • poor

Phantasmal - adjective • ghostly

Fulminate - verb • To verbally attack

Unalloyed - adjective • pure

Unbidden - adjective Not asked

Mercurial - adjective • Quick and changeable

Incorrigible - adjective • Uncontrollable, unable to be reformed

Wanderlust - noun • A strong impulse to travel

Extemporaneous - adjective • Impromptu, doing something without planning it