College Readiness SAT Vocabulary

bravado

• secret and sly

• a sign of something about to happen

• a swaggering show of courage

• army unit smaller than a division

the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

• atone

• transgression

• repatriate

• condolence

portent

• a sign of something about to happen

• intolerance and prejudice

• turn away from sin or do penitence

• violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles

believing the worst of human nature and motives

• atone

• cesspool

• condolence

• cynical

persecution

• take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to

• a swaggering show of courage

• violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles

• causing someone to suffer

an expression of sympathy with another's grief

• circumference

• condolence

• consolation

• portent

a covered cistern for waste water and sewage

• silo

• cesspool

• sewer

• swamp

indignation

• a feeling of righteous anger

• lacking any kind of respect

• lacking the ability to reproduce

• having no ability to read or write

His literary training was inadequate; his vocabulary is limited and his style awkward and _________; and he had a fondness for moralizing tritely and obviously, which mars his best passages.

• furtive

• indignant

• portentous

• pretentious

The third __________ was formed between Great Britain, Russia and Austria, Naples soon joining its ranks.

• cotillion

• coalition

• barrage

• brigade