From Princeton Review’s Hit Parade
SAT VOCAB
Week 1:
1.Intuitive
 Knowing or perceiving quickly and readily
2. Paramount
Of chief concern or importance
3. Urbane
Notably polite and elegant in manner; suave
4. Epiphany
A sudden burst of understanding or discovery
5. Trenchant
Keen, incisive
6. Whimsical
Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
7.Emulate
To try to equal or excel, especially through
imitiation
8. Nascent
Coming into existence; emerging
9. Novice
A beginner
10. Laudatory
Expressing great praise
Week 3
1. Incumbent
Imposed as a duty; obligatory
2. Indigenous
Originating and living in a particular area
3. Innate
Possessed at birth; inborn
5. Parochial
Narrow in scope
6. Pervasive
Having the quality or tendency to be
everywhere at the same time
7. Penitent
Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds
8. Vindicated
Freed from blame
9. Jurisprudence
The philosophy or science of law
10. Biased
Prejudiced
Week 4
1. Immutable
Not able to be changed
2. Mundane
Commonplace; ordinary
3. Prosaic
Unimaginative; dull
4. Unfettered
Not subject to limits or restrictions
5. Tenent
A principle held as being true by a person or an
organization
6. Stoic
Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
7. Harbinger
Somebody or something that foreshadows or
anticipates a future event; to herald or
foreshadow somebody or something
8. Genre
Describing a category of artistic endeavor
9. Staid
Characterized by a strait-laced sense of
seriousness
10. Archaic
Characteristic of an earlier, more primitive
period; old-fashioned
2. Nocturnal
 Of or occuring at night
Week #5
 Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ in two weeks
 Lists 1-6
 Best ways to study?
 Kind of quiz?
1. Temperate
 Moderate, mild
2. Nocturnal
 of or relating to the night
3. Conflagration
 A widespread fire
4. Arid
 Describing a dry, rainless climate
5. Ebullience
 Cheerful excitement or enthusiasm
6. Terse
 Brief and to the point, concise
7. Purist
 One who is particularly concerned with
maintaining traditional practices
8. Debunk
 To show that something is wrong or false
9. Frank
 Open and sincere in expression,
straightforward
10. Recalcitrant
 Stubbornly resisting the authority or control
of another
Week #6
 Reminder… Vocabulary QUIZ this Friday! Lists
1-6
1. Volition
 Will, conscious choice
2. Voluntary
 Willing, unforced
3. Didactic
 Instructive; intended to instruct
4. Disparate
 Different; incompatable
5. Disparage
 To belittle; to say uncomplimentary things
about
6. Ephemeral
 Short-lived; not lasting
7. Compliant
 Yielding; submissive
8. Prosaic
 Boring, unimaginative
9. Expedient
 Providing an immediate advantage
10. Garrulous
 Excessively or pointlessly talkative
Week #7
1. Pander
to cater to the desires of others by exploiting
their weaknesses
2. Zealous
 Passionate; extremely interested in pursuing
something
3. Milk
 To draw or extract profit or advantage from
4. Farce
 A ridiculous situation in which everything
goes wrong or becomes a sham
5. Obstinate
 Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course
of action
6. Meticulous
 Extremely careful and precise
7. Cogent
 Forceful and convincing to the intellect and
reason
8. Conscientious
 Careful and principled
9. Assiduous
 Hard-working
10. Propriety
 Appropriateness of behavior
Week 8
1. Punctilious
Strictly attentive to minute details; picky
2. Dogged
 Stubbornly persistent
3. Facetious
 Playfully humorous
4. Egregious
 Outstandingly bad or offensive
5. Ruse
 A crafty trick
6. Slander
 False charges and malicious oral statements
or reports about someone
7. Specious
 Having the ring of truth or plausibility but
actually false
8. Nostalgic
 Having to do with mixed feeling of happiness,
sadness and longing when recalling the past
9. Squalor
 A filthy condition or quality
10. Sonorous
 Having or producing sound
Week 9
1. Incorrigible
Unable to be reformed
2. Emphatic
 Expressed, thought or done with emphasis
3. Caustic
 Bitingly sarcastic or witty
4. Transitory
 Short-lived or temporary
5. Parsimonious
 Excessively cheap
6. Repugnant
 Causing hatred or disgust
7. Obdurate
 Stubborn; inflexible
8. Ingrate
 An ungrateful person
9. Cantankerous
 Grumpy; disagreeable
10. Brusque
 Describing a rudely abrupt manner
Week 10
1. Abstruse
hard to understand
2. Arduous
 Difficult; painstaking
3. Futile
 Having no useful purpose
4. Henious
 Hatefully evil; abominable
5. Impenetrable
 Incapable of being understood
6. Dilatory
 Describing one who habitually delays or is
tardy
7. Sedentary
 Not migratory; settled
8. Indolent
 lazy
9. Paucity
 Fewness; an extreme lack of
10. Soporific
 Causing sleep or sleepiness
Reminder!
 Vocab quiz 7-12 next Friday
 Flash cards!
 Partner study!
 Review skits!
 Make a song!
Week #11
1. Wry
dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony
2. Effusive
 Giving or involving an extravagant and
sometimes excessive expression of feelings in
writing or speech
3. Hackneyed
 Made commonplace and stale by overuse
4. Banal
 Boringly ordinary and lacking in originality
5. Haughty
 Condescendingly proud
6. Omnipotent
 All-powerful
7. Patronize
 To treat in a condescending manner
8. Extol
 To praise somebody or something with great
enthusiasm and admiration
9. Parody
 An artistic work that imitates the style of
another for comic effect
10. Imperious
 Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
Week #12
 Quiz , lists 7-12 this Friday!
1. Camaraderie
 Good will between friends
2. Depravity
 A state of moral corruption; a morally corrupt
or wicked act
3. Sanguine
 Cheerfully confident; optimistic
4. Opulent
 Exhibiting a display of great wealth
5. Pristine
 Not spoiled; pure
6. Medley
 An assortment or mixture, especially of
musical instruments
7. Deride
 To ridicule or show contempt for somebody
or something
8. Ornate
 Elaborately ornamented
9. Salutary
 Promoting good health
10. Serene
 Calm