ENGLISH SAT WORDS (Q4)

• accolade


  high praise, special distinction
• accretion


  slow growth in size or amount
• adroit


  skillful, dexterous
• balk


  to stop, block abruptly
• bard


  a poet, often a singer as well
• beguile


  to trick, deceive
• bilk


  cheat, defraud
• cajole


  to urge, coax
• candor


  honesty, frankness
• carp


  to annoy, pester
• catalyze


  to charge, inspire
• disavow


  to deny knowledge of or responsibility for
• discursive


  rambling, lacking order
• dispel


  to drive away, scatter
• emend


  to correct or revise a written text
• eschew


  to shun, avoid
• extricate


  to disentangle
• facile


  • 1. easy, requiring little effort
  • 2. superficial, achieved with minimal thought or care, insincere
• guile


  deceitful, cunning, sly behavior
• harrowing


  greatly distressing, vexing
• implicate


  to involve in an incriminating way, incriminate
• linchpin


  something that holds separate parts together
• mendacious


  having a lying, false character
• noisome


  unpleasant, offensive, especially to the sense of smell
• officious


  offering one's services when they are neither wanted nor needed
• opulent


  characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation
• ostentatious


  excessively showy, glitzy
• pariah


  an outcast
• Cavort


  Jump or dance around excitedly
• Impecunious


  Poor