{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/tp-sat-vocab-4",
 "id": "tp-sat-vocab-4",
 "title": "SAT/ACT Vocabulary 4: Hardest Words",
 "category": "test-prep",
 "subject": "Vocabulary",
 "levels": [
  "9-12",
  "college"
 ],
 "description": "Seventy-five of the harder words, for students aiming at top scores.",
 "tags": [
  "sat",
  "act",
  "vocabulary"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Word",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "abstruse",
   "Hard to understand; deep or obscure"
  ],
  [
   "accolade",
   "An expression of praise or honor"
  ],
  [
   "acerbic",
   "Sharp and biting in tone"
  ],
  [
   "alacrity",
   "Cheerful eagerness and speed"
  ],
  [
   "amalgamate",
   "To combine into one"
  ],
  [
   "anachronism",
   "Something placed in the wrong time period"
  ],
  [
   "antediluvian",
   "Extremely old-fashioned; from before the Flood"
  ],
  [
   "apocryphal",
   "Of doubtful authenticity; widely told but probably untrue"
  ],
  [
   "approbation",
   "Approval or praise"
  ],
  [
   "arcane",
   "Known by few; mysterious"
  ],
  [
   "ascetic",
   "Living with strict self-denial"
  ],
  [
   "assiduous",
   "Hard-working and persistent"
  ],
  [
   "attenuate",
   "To weaken or reduce in force"
  ],
  [
   "axiomatic",
   "Self-evident; accepted as true without proof"
  ],
  [
   "bellicose",
   "Inclined to start fights"
  ],
  [
   "blandishment",
   "Flattery used to persuade"
  ],
  [
   "bucolic",
   "Pleasantly rural"
  ],
  [
   "cajole",
   "To persuade by flattery or coaxing"
  ],
  [
   "canny",
   "Shrewd, especially in practical matters"
  ],
  [
   "castigate",
   "To criticize severely"
  ],
  [
   "caustic",
   "Bitingly sarcastic; able to burn"
  ],
  [
   "chicanery",
   "Trickery used to get one's way"
  ],
  [
   "circumspect",
   "Careful to consider all consequences"
  ],
  [
   "clandestine",
   "Kept secret, often for improper reasons"
  ],
  [
   "colloquial",
   "Used in informal conversation"
  ],
  [
   "connoisseur",
   "An expert judge in matters of taste"
  ],
  [
   "contentious",
   "Likely to cause argument"
  ],
  [
   "contrite",
   "Feeling sorry for wrongdoing"
  ],
  [
   "convoluted",
   "Extremely complex and twisting"
  ],
  [
   "credulous",
   "Too ready to believe"
  ],
  [
   "culpable",
   "Deserving blame"
  ],
  [
   "cursory",
   "Hasty and not thorough"
  ],
  [
   "daunting",
   "Seeming difficult in a discouraging way"
  ],
  [
   "decry",
   "To publicly condemn"
  ],
  [
   "deleterious",
   "Harmful"
  ],
  [
   "demur",
   "To raise doubts or objections"
  ],
  [
   "denigrate",
   "To belittle someone's reputation"
  ],
  [
   "desultory",
   "Lacking a plan; jumping from one thing to another"
  ],
  [
   "diatribe",
   "A bitter, lengthy verbal attack"
  ],
  [
   "dichotomy",
   "A division into two contrasting parts"
  ],
  [
   "diffident",
   "Lacking self-confidence"
  ],
  [
   "disseminate",
   "To spread widely"
  ],
  [
   "dogmatic",
   "Insisting that one's opinions are correct"
  ],
  [
   "ebullient",
   "Overflowing with enthusiasm"
  ],
  [
   "efficacious",
   "Producing the desired result"
  ],
  [
   "effusive",
   "Gushing with feeling"
  ],
  [
   "egregious",
   "Outstandingly bad"
  ],
  [
   "elucidate",
   "To make clear"
  ],
  [
   "empathy",
   "Understanding another person's feelings"
  ],
  [
   "enervate",
   "To drain of energy"
  ],
  [
   "equanimity",
   "Calmness under stress"
  ],
  [
   "erudite",
   "Having great learning"
  ],
  [
   "euphemism",
   "A mild word used in place of a harsher one"
  ],
  [
   "exacerbate",
   "To make worse"
  ],
  [
   "exculpate",
   "To free from blame"
  ],
  [
   "exigent",
   "Urgent; demanding immediate action"
  ],
  [
   "extraneous",
   "Not belonging to the subject at hand"
  ],
  [
   "fastidious",
   "Very attentive to detail; hard to please"
  ],
  [
   "fatuous",
   "Silly and pointless"
  ],
  [
   "felicitous",
   "Well chosen; fitting"
  ],
  [
   "fortuitous",
   "Happening by lucky chance"
  ],
  [
   "garrulous",
   "Talking too much"
  ],
  [
   "grandiloquent",
   "Using pompous language"
  ],
  [
   "iconoclast",
   "Someone who attacks cherished beliefs"
  ],
  [
   "ignominious",
   "Deserving shame; humiliating"
  ],
  [
   "impervious",
   "Not allowing anything to pass through or affect"
  ],
  [
   "imperturbable",
   "Unable to be upset"
  ],
  [
   "inchoate",
   "Just begun and not fully formed"
  ],
  [
   "incorrigible",
   "Impossible to reform"
  ],
  [
   "inexorable",
   "Impossible to stop"
  ],
  [
   "insidious",
   "Spreading harmfully in a hidden way"
  ],
  [
   "intransigent",
   "Refusing to change one's position"
  ],
  [
   "inundate",
   "To flood or overwhelm"
  ],
  [
   "inure",
   "To accustom to something unpleasant"
  ],
  [
   "laconic",
   "Using very few words"
  ],
  [
   "laud",
   "To praise highly"
  ],
  [
   "loquacious",
   "Very talkative"
  ],
  [
   "maudlin",
   "Overly sentimental"
  ],
  [
   "mendacious",
   "Dishonest; lying"
  ],
  [
   "nefarious",
   "Wicked"
  ]
 ]
}