SAT Prep Vocabulary

acrid

• Sharply bitter in taste or odor

• Extremely sour smelling

• Sweet smelling scent

acrimonious

• In harmony with everything

• transluscent

• bitter in words or manner

adherent

• Going against all authority

• Following a leader

• Not choosing a side

adroit

• the skill of coping with situations

• the skill of avoiding situations

• the skill of problem solving

Yvette knew it would bring shame, but she decided to be _____ about cheating on her exam.

• candid

• lucid

• agile

• elude

Former President Trump had numerous public conversations that people considered him to a _____.

• goad

• bigot

• surly

• venal

No man was more free or outspoken in his criticism of the policy of his employers than this apparently ____ writer.

• venal

• surly

• dour

• candid

an unpleasant odor or secretion

• dilemma

• effluvia

• complacent

• sinister

Egregious

• that which makes, or should make, you feel ashamed

• extremely bad

• too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary

• having or showing a desire to harm somebody or hurt their feelings, caused by a feeling of hate

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4

Authoritarian Means What?

• Cheerfully; in a carefree manner

• Greed for money

• A welcome benefit

• Characterized by absolute obedience to authority; against individual freedom