SAT Prep Vocabulary Review

Brief and to the point

A briefly phrased statement of a truth or opinion

To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself; often to avoid arrest or prosecution

A mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges

Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow

Full of apprehensiveness; timid

Of or relating to money

Containing an excessive number of words; wordy

State of low spirits caused by loss of hope

A new word, expression, or usage

To waver, as between conflicting opinions or courses of action

Having no marked feeling for or against

Pretentious; designed to impress or attract notice; showy

Lacking money; penniless

Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful

Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning

Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of a similar sound

Not easily understood; abstruse or obscure

Strongly attracted to or disposed to love, especially sexual love

Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune

Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal

Habitually untalkative

Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished

Extreme want or poverty

Difficult to manage or govern; stubborn

Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action

Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness

A person chosen to settle the issue between parties engaged in a dispute

Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise

An error in naming a person or place

A feeling of great happiness or well-being

A small, moderate, or token amount

Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply

To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand