SAT Prep Vocab Final 26-50

Strongly disinclined

To urge with gentle and repeated appeal, teasing, or flattery

Impulsive and unpredictable

Causing relaxation after an emotional outburst

To draw a circle around; to restrict

Kind and gentle

Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive

Emotionally hardened; unfeeling

To buoy up or hearten; to support or prop up

Done secretively, especially to deceive; surreptitious

Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward 

To criticize severely; blame

Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable

Given to pompous speech or writing

Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; purdent

To grow or flourish; to put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout

Appeasing; soothing; pleasant

To picture falsely; misrepresent

To inflict severe punishment on

Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection

Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite

A trick; deception by trickery

Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous

The quality or state of being brief in duration