SAT PRACTICE VOCABULARY WORDS : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Sentimental - governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotions Inevitable - incapable of being avoided or evaded

Pretentious - making usually unjustified or excessive claims Verbose - containing more words than necessary Eloquent - marked by forceful and fluent expression, revealing Aptly - unusually fitted or qualified Stoically - not affected by or showing passion or feeling Grandiloquent - a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language 9. Valedictory - expressing or containing a farewell 10. Assiduous - marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application 11. Exorbitant - exceeding the customary or appropriate limits 12. Wreaked - vengeance or punishment, or to give free play or course to (malevolent feeling) 13. Compensate - to make an appropriate and usually counterbalancing payment to 14. Diligence - SPEED, HASTE the attention and care legally expected or required of a person 15. Prestigious - relating to, or marked by illusion, conjuring, :having prestige :
HONORED

16. Abundance - relative degree of plentifulness 17. Quiescent - inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest : causing no trouble or symptoms 18. Garrulous - given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly
talkative

19. Congregated - to come together into a group, crowd, or assembly 20. Wholesome - promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit 21. Salutary - producing a beneficial effect ; promoting health 22. Contemplative - of or relating to a religious order devoted to prayer and penance ;
monk

23. Periphery - the external boundary or surface of a body 24. Urban - of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city 25. Symmetrical - split in the middle and both sides are alike 26. Masquerade - a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic
costumes

27. Instigating - to goad or urge forward : PROVOKE 28. Understatement - to represent as less than is the case 29. Frugal - characterized by or reflecting economy in the use of resources 30. Ponderous - oppressively or unpleasantly dull : LIFELESS ; unwieldy or clumsy
because of weight and size

31. Protracted - to prolong in time or space ; delay 32. Dwindle - to become steadily less ; shrink 33. Vulnerable - capable of being physically or emotionally wounded : open to attack or
damage

34. Novel - new and not resembling something formerly known or used ; original 35. Autonomy - : self-directing freedom and especially moral independence ; self
governing

36. Prosperous - marked by success or economic well-being 37. Masonry - something constructed of materials used by masons ( a skilled worker
who builds by laying units of substantial material )

38. Prosaic - characteristic distinguish from poetry : DULL, UNIMAGINATIVE : EVERYDAY,

ORDINARY

39. Staid - marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint: SOBER, GRAVE 40. Antediluvian - made, evolved, or developed a long time ago 41. Fertile - producing or bearing fruit in great quantities 42. Edifices - a large or massive structure 43. Grandiose - impressive because of uncommon largeness, scope, effect, or grandeur 44. Imposing - impressive in size, bearing, dignity, or grandeur 45. Adjacent - not distant : NEARBY : having a common endpoint or border 46. Brawny - being swollen and hard : MUSCULAR; also : STRONG, POWERFUL 47. Breadth - : distance from side to side : WIDTH 48. Industriously - related:SKILLFUL, INGENIOUS, DILIGENT:constantly, regularly, or
habitually active

49. Mused - to become absorbed in thought 50. Erratic - having no fixed course : WANDERING: NOMADIC