The SAT vocabulary words that appear in the above WordFoto are as follows:
- flagrant
- atrocious
- egregious
- glaring
- odious
- contemptible
- heinous
- depraved
- deplorable
- rank
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What’s up with mnemonics for vocabulary words?
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Here are links to some of our posts of mnemonics for vocabulary words:
1. curmudgeon
2. lachrymose
3. sanguine
4. supercilious
5. slake
6. enervate
7. ubiquitous
8. aloof
9. gainsay
10. sanctimonious
11. tantamount
12. remiss
13. abjure
14. adjure
15. protean
16. insidious
17. mendacious
18. homely
19. homily
20. diffident
21. strident
22. baleful
23. truculent
24. rapacity
25. pedigree
26. caveat
27. redolent
28. rectitude
29. ephemeral
30. puerile
31. munificent
32. altruism
33. ebullient
34. parsimony
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using ‘awesome’ but expanding your vocabulary with these 20 words is, well, awesome.
- accusatory: charging of wrong doing
- apathetic: indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
- awe: solemn wonder
- bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
- cynical: questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
- condescension; condescending: a feeling of superiority
- callous: unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others
- contemplative: studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
- critical: finding fault
- choleric: hot-tempered, easily angered
- contemptuous: showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect
- caustic: intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
- conventional: lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality
- disdainful: scornful
- didactic: author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
- derisive: ridiculing, mocking
- earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
- erudite: learned, polished, scholarly
- fanciful: using the imagination
- forthright: directly frank without hesitation
- gloomy: darkness, sadness, rejection
- haughty: proud and vain to the point of arrogance
- indignant: marked by anger aroused by injustice
- intimate: very familiar
- judgmental: authoritative and often having critical opinions
- jovial: happy
- lyrical: expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like
- matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
- mocking: treating with contempt or ridicule
- morose: gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
- malicious: purposely hurtful
- objective: an unbiased view-able to leave personal judgments aside
- optimistic: hopeful, cheerful
- obsequious: polite and obedient in order to gain something
- patronizing: air of condescension
- pessimistic: seeing the worst side of things; no hope
- quizzical: odd, eccentric, amusing
- ribald: offensive in speech or gesture
- reverent: treating a subject with honor and respect
- ridiculing: slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of
- reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
- sarcastic: sneering, caustic
- sardonic: scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
- satiric: ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
- sincere: without deceit or pretense; genuine
- solemn: deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
- sanguineous: optimistic, cheerful
- whimsical: odd, strange, fantastic; fun
Rare Words
acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists
paralian - A person who lives near the sea
aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets
dwale - To wander about deliriously
sabaism - The worship of stars
dysphoria - An unwell feeling
aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn
eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome
mimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips
Rare Words
acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists
paralian - A person who lives near the sea
aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets
dwale - To wander about deliriously
sabaism - The worship of stars
dysphoria - An unwell feeling
aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn
eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome
mimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips
+ 100 Exquisite Adjectives.
(SOURCE) Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives:
- Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
- Adroit: clever, resourceful
- Amatory: sexual
- Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
- Antic: clownish, frolicsome
- Arcadian: serene
- Baleful: deadly, foreboding
- Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)
- Bilious: unpleasant, peevish
- Boorish: crude, insensitive
- Calamitous: disastrous
- Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance
- Cerulean: sky blue
- Comely: attractive
- Concomitant: accompanying
- Contumacious: rebellious
- Corpulent: obese
- Crapulous: immoderate in appetite
- Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting
- Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction
- Dilatory: causing delay, tardy
- Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman
- Efficacious: producing a desired effect
- Effulgent: brilliantly radiant
- Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant
- Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area
- Equanimous: even, balanced
- Execrable: wretched, detestable
- Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate
- Feckless: weak, irresponsible
- Fecund: prolific, inventive
- Friable: brittle
- Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive
- Garrulous: wordy, talkative
- Guileless: naive
- Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating
- Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving
- Histrionic: affected, theatrical
- Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident
- Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot
- Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous
- Insolent: impudent, contemptuous
- Intransigent: uncompromising
- Inveterate: habitual, persistent
- Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious
- Irksome: annoying
- Jejune: dull, puerile
- Jocular: jesting, playful
- Judicious: discreet
- Lachrymose: tearful
- Limpid: simple, transparent, serene
- Loquacious: talkative
- Luminous: clear, shining
- Mannered: artificial, stilted
- Mendacious: deceptive
- Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious
- Minatory: menacing
- Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent
- Munificent: lavish, generous
- Nefarious: wicked
- Noxious: harmful, corrupting
- Obtuse: blunt, stupid
- Parsimonious: frugal, restrained
- Pendulous: suspended, indecisive
- Pernicious: injurious, deadly
- Pervasive: widespread
- Petulant: rude, ill humored
- Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments
- Precipitate: steep, speedy
- Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent
- Puckish: impish
- Querulous: cranky, whining
- Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome
- Rebarbative: irritating, repellent
- Recalcitant: resistant, obstinate
- Redolent: aromatic, evocative
- Rhadamanthine: harshly strict
- Risible: laughable
- Ruminative: contemplative
- Sagacious: wise, discerning
- Salubrious: healthful
- Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions
- Sclerotic: hardening
- Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily
- Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent
- Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud
- Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent
- Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,
- Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive
- Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct
- Turbulent: restless, tempestuous
- Turgid: swollen, pompous
- Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread
- Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife
- Verdant: green, unripe
- Voluble: glib, given to speaking
- Voracious: ravenous, insatiable
- Wheedling: flattering
- Withering: devastating
- Zealous: eager, devoted
10 Words That You’ve Probably Been Misusing
1) Travesty
What you may think it means: a tragedy, an unfortunate event
What it actually means: a mockery; a parody
This one, I’ll admit, is my own personal error. For the longest time, I equated travesty with tragedy, mostly because in passing, they sound like the same word. It’s stupid, I know, but if you knew how many times I confused fetal position with beetle position, you wouldn’t be laughing. It’s a serious problem.
2) Ironic
What you may think it means: a funny coincidence
What it actually means: contrary to what you might expect
It’s not ironic that you bumped into a talking turtle in a sweater vest right after you told your friend how cool it would be to bump into a talking turtle in a sweater vest. It’s a coincidence, and believe it or not, those two words are not related. Also, you should probably lay off the drugs because I’m pretty sure animals shouldn’t be talking.
3) Peruse
What you may think it means: to skim or glance over something
What it actually means: to review something carefully/in-depth
How this definition got completely turned on its head, I’ll never know, but I’ll be sure never to say “I’m going to go peruse my math textbook” ever again, just in case someone overhears and tries to hold me to it under the real meaning.
4) Bemused
What you may think it means: amused
What it actually means: confused
Again, with the whole “words sounding alike” issue. I’m starting to think I just need hearing aids. This is getting out of hand.
5) Compelled
What you may think it means: to willingly do something, to feel like you need to do something
What it actually means: to be forced to do something (willingly or unwillingly)
The word you’re looking for is “impelled.” I agree, it doesn’t get enough attention.
6) Nauseous
What you may think it means: to feel sick
What it actually means: to cause nausea
When you eat too much ice cream and declare to your mom or the nearest adult, “I feel nauseous,” what you’re actually saying is that you are causing people around you to feel sick. Thanks, jerk. (For the record, “I’m nauseated” is the way to go.)
7) Conversate
What you may think it means: to hold a conversation
What it actually means: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
This word is a mix of conversation and converse, and doesn’t actually exist, like unicorns or YOUR DREAMS. (I’m kidding. Unicorns are totally real.)
8) Redundant
What you may think it means: repetitive
What it actually means: superfluous, able to be cut out
“Including this sentence is redundant because you already mentioned your love of Santa Claus in the previous paragraph.” This has always been my exposure to the word redundant, so it only makes sense that I would think repetitive was correct. I can’t be the only one? Right? RIGHT?
9) Enormity
What you may think it means: enormousness
What it actually means: extreme evil
I don’t know where the “extreme evil” thing came from (probably the Devil) but enormity makes more sense as enormousness in my mind.
10) Terrific
What you may think it means: awesome, fantastic
What it actually means: causing terror
Okay, so “causing terror” is more of an outdated definition but I still thought it was interesting. Maybe keep this fun fact in the back of your mind the next time you call your favorite camper, “Terrific Tommy,” because technically, a few decades ago, that might have been an insult. Unless instead of a camper, he’s a serial killer. In that case, go for it.
Info via DailyWritingTips.com, Cracked.com, and WriteItSideways.com. Image via GinnyTonkin.com.
umm i pretty much use all of these incorrectly #wordsmeanthings i’ll do better.
Wow.
I love this! My snotty side was very laissez faire and went Well Duh and then one word caught me because I was completely wrong about its meaning! Learnt something new!
The real definition of Enormity hit me over the head. Now I will have to look up its etymology cause I am a nerd like that.