500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022

500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022 Document Content and Description Below 500 key words for the SAT. with Concrete meaning. Update 2022 abstract - theoretical; not concrete abstruse - hard to understand acclaim - praise; applaud accolade - an award, or praise acquiescent - reluctantly agreeable; compliant acrimony - words or behavior filled with harshness or anger adamant - refusing to change; stubborn, unyielding adroit - skillful in physical activity, or in handling difficult situations advocate - support; plead for; speak on behalf of affable - friendly; easy-going affirmation - positive statement; assertion; agreement alienate - to push someone way, or cause him to separate from people aloof - detached; apart; indifferent altruistic - unselfish; caring ambidextrous - able to use both hands with equal skill ambiguous - unclear; vague; having several possible interpretations ambivalence - indecision; feeling of being pulled in two directions ameliorate - to make an unpleasant situation better; to improve amity - friendship amorphous - without form or shape analogous - similar anarchy - a lack of order; chaos anathema - a religious curse, or the thing or person being cursed antagonistic - in hostile competition; opposing antiquated - too old to be useful; outdated; obsolete antithesis - opposite apathy - lack of interest or concern apex - top; highest point; summit appease - calm; pacify arbitrary - selected by random choice and without solid reason arcane - secret; mysterious archaic - old; antiquated arrogant - acting superior, obnoxious, smug or rude articulate - able to speak clearly and effectively ascendance - domination; controlling power ascetic - person who rejects physical comfort and luxuy for self-discipline asperity - roughness; harshness; irritability assail - attack with words or force assiduous - persistent; hard-working; diligent; attentive to detail assuage - relieve; ease; pacify astute - wise; insightfully clever; shrewd atrophy - waste away; wither audacious - brazen; brash; nervy augment - make larger; increase auspicious - taking place under promising conditions; likely to succeed austere - stern; plain; without luxuries avarice - greed averse - feeling repelled; wanting to avoid baleful - harmful; menacing banal - boring; trite; insipid beguile - to cheat or deceive, usually through charm; to amuse belie - to give an impression that is the opposite of the way things really are; to misrepresent belligerent - having a strong tendency to argue and fight benediction - good wishes; a blessing benevolent - kindhearted; good-natured; generous benign - gentle; kind-hearted; mild bequeath - to leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit blight - decay; disease; widespread death bolster - to support; to reinforce bombast - speech or writing intended to impress the audience; pompous brevity - briefness; conciseness bumptious - pushy; obnoxiously self-assertive cacophony - harshness of sound; opposite of harmony cajole - to fool with flattery or false promises; coax; deceive candor - honesty; frankness capacious - large; roomy; spacious capitulate - surrender; yield capricious - unpredictable castigate - scold; punish caustic - burning, either with chemicals or sarcasm celerity - speed censure - to criticize chasten - punish; discipline; castigate chastise - scold; punish; castigate choler - anger circumscribe - draw a line around; define limits; confine; restrict circumspect - cautious clemency - mercy coalesce - unite; grow together cloister - secluded or isolated from the outside world; also, a place of seclusion coerce - to force someone by threatening or physically overpowering him complacent - self-satisfied; unconcerned compliant - following someone else's demands; comforming; obeying composure - calmness; equanimity concede - admit reluctantly; yield concise - short and to the point; terse concur - agree condone - to overlook, excuse, or pardon confound - to mix up (in your own mind); or, to confuse someone else consonance - a blending of sounds or opinions; harmony; agreement consummate - to complete or make whole contend - to argue a point or position; or, to struggle for contingent - dependent upon other circumstances; conditional contract - squeeze together; shrink contrite -