SAT Regular Vocabulary 6

Dissonance

• Conflict, disharmony

• Harmony, agreement

• Unity, cooperation

• Clarity, understanding

Enhance

• Improve

• Reduce

• Neglect

• Limit

Empirical

• Based on experience

• Theoretical and abstract

• Derived from intuition

• Based on assumptions

Divest

• Strip, sell off

• Acquire, hold on

• Invest, buy

• Retain, keep

Entitlement

• Right, privilege.

• Obligation, duty.

• Restriction, limitation.

• Burden, responsibility.

Emulate

• Copy, imitate

• Create, innovate

• Destroy, eliminate

• Ignore, neglect

Embellish

• Decorate, enhance

• Simplify, reduce

• Ignore, neglect

• Destroy, ruin

Egregious

• Outrageous, glaring

• Mild, subtle

• Common, ordinary

• Insignificant, trivial

E.g.

• For example

• In other words

• Such as

• Namely

Eloquent

• Expressive, persuasive

• Confusing, unclear

• Silent, reserved

• Simple, straightforward