SAT Questions & Answers

abstruse - Answer difficult to understand accolade - Answer tribute; honor; praise acronym - Answer A word formed from the first letter of each word in a series altruism - Answer unselfish concern for the welfare of others ameliorate - Answer to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming amity - Answer friendship; friendly relations assuage - Answer (v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench atrophy - Answer to waste away banal - Answer so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring cajole - Answer (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises censure - Answer to criticize harshly complacent - Answer self-satisfied; smug decadent - Answer decaying or decayed, especially in terms of morals diaphanous - Answer very sheer and light; almost completely transparent Electic - Answer consisting of parts selected from various sources effigy - Answer a crude image of a despised person emaciated - Answer abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food. ephemeral - Answer short-lived gregarious - Answer outgoing; sociable indolent - Answer wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy jocular - Answer humorous, jesting, jolly, joking laudable - Answer praiseworthy levity - Answer lack of seriousness mudane - Answer ordinary, commonplace neophyte - Answer (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice obdurate - Answer stubborn; unyielding panacea - Answer cure-all parody - Answer a work that imitates the style of another literary work; may be mocking or amusing; short, humorous parodies can be called spoofs placate - Answer to appease, soothe, pacify sequester - Answer to isolate