{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/tp-sat-vocab-3",
 "id": "tp-sat-vocab-3",
 "title": "SAT/ACT Vocabulary 3: Stretch Words",
 "category": "test-prep",
 "subject": "Vocabulary",
 "levels": [
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Eighty harder words that appear in challenging passages.",
 "tags": [
  "sat",
  "act",
  "vocabulary"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "paradigm",
   "A typical model or pattern; a framework of ideas"
  ],
  [
   "paradox",
   "A statement or situation that seems to contradict itself yet may be true"
  ],
  [
   "pragmatic",
   "Practical rather than idealistic"
  ],
  [
   "precarious",
   "Dangerously unstable"
  ],
  [
   "precedent",
   "An earlier case used as a guide"
  ],
  [
   "prodigious",
   "Remarkably large or impressive"
  ],
  [
   "proficient",
   "Skilled; competent"
  ],
  [
   "proliferate",
   "To increase rapidly in number"
  ],
  [
   "prudent",
   "Wise and careful about the future"
  ],
  [
   "pervasive",
   "Spreading widely through everything"
  ],
  [
   "placate",
   "To calm someone's anger"
  ],
  [
   "plausible",
   "Seeming reasonable or probable"
  ],
  [
   "polarize",
   "To divide into sharply opposed groups"
  ],
  [
   "pretentious",
   "Trying to seem more important than one is"
  ],
  [
   "quell",
   "To put an end to, usually by force"
  ],
  [
   "rebuke",
   "To criticize sharply"
  ],
  [
   "recalcitrant",
   "Stubbornly resisting authority"
  ],
  [
   "reclusive",
   "Avoiding other people"
  ],
  [
   "refute",
   "To prove wrong"
  ],
  [
   "reiterate",
   "To say again"
  ],
  [
   "relinquish",
   "To give up or let go"
  ],
  [
   "reproach",
   "To express disapproval of"
  ],
  [
   "repudiate",
   "To reject as untrue or unacceptable"
  ],
  [
   "resilient",
   "Able to recover quickly"
  ],
  [
   "reticent",
   "Reluctant to speak"
  ],
  [
   "revere",
   "To feel deep respect for"
  ],
  [
   "rhetoric",
   "The art of persuasive speaking or writing"
  ],
  [
   "rudimentary",
   "Basic; undeveloped"
  ],
  [
   "sagacious",
   "Wise and showing good judgment"
  ],
  [
   "sanction",
   "To approve; also, a penalty"
  ],
  [
   "scrutinize",
   "To examine very closely"
  ],
  [
   "serene",
   "Calm and peaceful"
  ],
  [
   "skeptical",
   "Doubtful; questioning"
  ],
  [
   "solemn",
   "Serious and formal"
  ],
  [
   "spurious",
   "False; not genuine"
  ],
  [
   "squander",
   "To waste"
  ],
  [
   "static",
   "Not moving or changing"
  ],
  [
   "stoic",
   "Enduring pain or hardship without complaint"
  ],
  [
   "substantiate",
   "To support with evidence"
  ],
  [
   "subtle",
   "Delicate or hard to notice"
  ],
  [
   "succinct",
   "Briefly and clearly expressed"
  ],
  [
   "superfluous",
   "More than is needed"
  ],
  [
   "supplant",
   "To take the place of"
  ],
  [
   "surmise",
   "To guess on limited evidence"
  ],
  [
   "tangible",
   "Able to be touched; real"
  ],
  [
   "tenacious",
   "Holding firmly; persistent"
  ],
  [
   "tenuous",
   "Very thin or weak"
  ],
  [
   "terse",
   "Using very few words, sometimes rudely"
  ],
  [
   "thwart",
   "To prevent from succeeding"
  ],
  [
   "tranquil",
   "Free from disturbance"
  ],
  [
   "transient",
   "Lasting only a short time"
  ],
  [
   "trivial",
   "Of little importance"
  ],
  [
   "ubiquitous",
   "Seeming to be everywhere"
  ],
  [
   "undermine",
   "To weaken gradually"
  ],
  [
   "unprecedented",
   "Never done or known before"
  ],
  [
   "vacillate",
   "To waver between choices"
  ],
  [
   "validate",
   "To confirm as correct or worthy"
  ],
  [
   "venerate",
   "To honor deeply"
  ],
  [
   "verbose",
   "Using more words than needed"
  ],
  [
   "versatile",
   "Able to do many different things"
  ],
  [
   "vindicate",
   "To clear of blame; to prove right"
  ],
  [
   "volatile",
   "Quickly changing, often explosively"
  ],
  [
   "wary",
   "Cautious about possible danger"
  ],
  [
   "whimsical",
   "Playfully odd or fanciful"
  ],
  [
   "zealous",
   "Full of eager enthusiasm"
  ],
  [
   "abstain",
   "To choose not to do something"
  ],
  [
   "acquiesce",
   "To accept something reluctantly without protest"
  ],
  [
   "acrimony",
   "Bitter, sharp feeling in words or manner"
  ],
  [
   "admonish",
   "To warn or scold gently"
  ],
  [
   "aloof",
   "Distant and unfriendly in manner"
  ],
  [
   "ameliorate",
   "To make something better"
  ],
  [
   "antipathy",
   "Strong dislike"
  ],
  [
   "appease",
   "To satisfy by giving in to demands"
  ],
  [
   "ardent",
   "Passionate and enthusiastic"
  ],
  [
   "assuage",
   "To ease or soothe"
  ],
  [
   "banal",
   "So ordinary it is boring"
  ],
  [
   "belligerent",
   "Eager to fight"
  ],
  [
   "bolster",
   "To support or strengthen"
  ],
  [
   "bombastic",
   "High-sounding but meaningless"
  ],
  [
   "brevity",
   "Shortness of expression"
  ],
  [
   "burgeon",
   "To grow or flourish quickly"
  ],
  [
   "cacophony",
   "A harsh mixture of loud sounds"
  ],
  [
   "coalesce",
   "To come together into one"
  ],
  [
   "conundrum",
   "A confusing problem"
  ],
  [
   "copious",
   "Abundant"
  ]
 ]
}