SAT English

• Officious


  Ready to serve; eager in offering unwanted services or advice
• Spurious 


  Not genuine; false
• Onerous


  Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome
• Gregarious


  Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable
• Pious


  Devout or virtuous ; holy
• Scrupuluous


  Careful of small details; honest; conscientious
• Copious


  Abundant; plentiful
• Tenacious


  Tough; stubborn; not letting go
• Surreptitious 


  Done or acting in a secret, sly manner
• Voracious


  An insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; eager to consume great amounts of food
• Attrition


  A gradual reduction or weakening; a rubbing away
• Edification


  Enlighten; instruct
• Ablution


  A cleansing with water or other liquid, especially as a religious ritual; the liquid used in such an act
• Elocution


  The art of public speaking
• Writhe


  To cause to twist or bend; to suffer acutely, as in pain or embarrassment
• Pedestrian


  ordinary; moving on foot
• Carrion


  Dead and rotting flesh
• Pinion


  Bind the wings so as not to fly; confine
• Kismet


  Fate
• Ambivalence


  indecision; experiencing contradictory emotions
• Deploy


  To arrange strategically
• Cavalier


  casual; carefree and nonchalant; arrogant disregard; a gallant gentelman
• Egg


  To encourage or incite to action
• Mete


  to distribute by or as if by measure; allot
• Nullify


  To make useless; cancel; undo
• Embroil


  To involve in argument or hostile action; to throw in disorder
• Waffle


  To speak or write evasively
• Ascribe


  To attribute to a specific cause, source or origin
• Enhance


  To improve; to intensify
• Impair


  To cause to diminish, as in strength, value or quality
• Terse


  Brief and to the point; concise
• Coerce


  To force someone by threatening or physically overpowering him
• Diverse


  Different; varied
• Abate


  To reduce
• Abide


  To remain; continue; stay; endure
• Gambit


  To take a risk for some advantage
• Jaunt


  A short pleasure trip
• Frank


  Straightforward ; open and sincere in expression
• Lithe


  Bending easily and gracefully
• Aesthetic


  Having to do with artistic beauty