SAT Special (Vocabulary III)

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• Relegate (v) exile someone from a country or community; demote somebody or something to a less important position or category. After an abysmal season X Football Club saw themselves relegated to second division. The Shah of Iran was relegated from the country after the Islamic revolution.
• Anecdote (n) a short and usually amusing story. Hilton's grandma told him an anecdote about a dog that swam at the Olympics. 
• Scanty (adj) less than the requirement; meager. A scanty dinner. It is a norm to see models clad in scanty dresses for men's magazine photoshoots.
• Fallacious (adj) untrue or false. The girl spread fallacious rumors about the cancellation of the high school ball. He stood up against the fallacious beliefs of the cult and was killed that very moment.
• Acclaim (v) praise or admire someone or something highly. A critically acclaimed motion picture. The jury acclaimed the daring and innovative performance of the juggler.
• Uniform (adj) consistent or unchanging. A uniform force.
• Incoherent (adj) difficult to understand or make a meaning out of. She was clearly perplexed as the speech she delivered was incoherent in every sense of word. His speech was reduced to incoherent mumblings.
• Repress (v) suppress something usually by force. He repressed the laugh until his cheeks ached. The only practical solution left before us now is to repress the rebellion.
• Articulate (v) to express something understandably. Emy articulated her grief to her boyfriend.
• Solicit (v) to ask or to plead for something. I am ready to help you if cease soliciting alms. She was charged on accounts of soliciting the murder of her husband.
• Reproach (v) criticize for a wrongdoing; scold. The disciple master reproached little Jody for playing in the dirt.
• Condescend (v) to act in a superior way; to do something considered humiliating or of lower level. Honda makes great little cars, I am not trying to sound condescending but I was just saying that they made great sedans. The officer condescended to accepting a two figure bribe for the first time in his life. She condescended to travelling in our minivan as her own limo wouldn't start.
• Orthodox (adj) conventional; in line with already set principles. An orthodox cover drive. Your driving skills are not at all orthodox...you are the most rash driver I've been with.
• Indolent (adj) lethargic, inactive or insensitive to pain (secondary). The indolent dog always laid there, infront of the fireplace, barking in his sleep as if it were hot on chase. The indolent, obese man took a dip in the pool for the first time in his life.
• Congenial (adj) pleasant to be with. Jane had many a sleepless nights thinking about her 'monstrous' in-laws but was left flabbergasted when she found them to be quite congenial.
• Preclude (v) to prevent something from happening; to shut out; to make impossible. Having a relative in the company precludes me from taking part in the competition. The strong defense of Chelsea precluded Liverpool from scoring the winning goal.
• Apprehensive (adj) fearful or anxious. Josh was apprehensive about going trick 'r treating. The captain was apprehensive about sailing in those uncharted waters.
• Elaborate (adj) detailed or complex. An elaborate plan. An elaborate explanation of the topic.
• Arrogant (adj) feeling superior. The arrogant girl didn't even say hello to girls from poor or middle-class backgrounds.
• Taciturn (adj) habitually reserved or silent. Linda is of a taciturn and unsocial disposition, remaining silent until she has something to say that will awe the whole room.
• Ameliorate (v) to make something less painful or hard; or make better. The air hostess tried to ameliorate the doom that hung in the passenger cabin by switching on MTV, but still nothing would diverge the passengers' mind from the awaiting death. He tried to ameliorate the pain by applying ice to the cuts.
• Acquiesce (v) to agree or submit. I could not but acquiesce in his theory as I was too tired to argue more. The count would not acquiesce in letting her having a walk in the woods. The women alleged that the father, too, had acquiesced in killing the child.
• Atrophy (n) lose strength from the lack of use. Being bed-ridden for 6 weeks he could clearly feel the atrophy in his muscles. If the astronauts do not exercise when in space then they will face muscle atrophy when they get back to Earth.
• Dubious (adj) doubtful, hesitant. The dubious horse was in no mood of letting Sam ride. I was a little dubious about whether to trust him or not.
• Flagrant (adj) conspicuously bad such that the deed is against moral conduct. Guantanamo Bay Prison is a flagrant violation of human rights. The undertaker asked him for his last words before he was executed for his flagrant crime.
• Concise (adj) short and to the point. A concise report.
• Immutable (adj) unchanging or unchangeable. The hacker tried his utmost but still couldn't change the immutable password of the main server.
• Static (adj) stationary. The pendulum remains static for a fraction of a second at the highest point in its oscillation.
• Credulous (adj) believing, gullible, can be tricked. The credulous shopkeeper was tricked into thinking that they are going to pay but instead they ran off with the loot.
• Blasphemy (n) irreverence, disrespect of something considered religious. In India, slaughtering a cow is considered a blasphemy.
• Coalesce (v) to unify or come together or combine. Raindrops chased each other on the window, then coalesced. In a smoothie all the ingredients have to be coalesced to give the real taste.
• Lax (adj) not strict or careful enough. Your lax attitude while driving is going to land our passenger's safety in jeopardy. The security checks were lax and the security officials just checked the participants superficially.
• Levity (n) inappropriate lack of seriousness. His levity, as we fought to control the ship in punishing waves, was getting on my nerves.
• Ambivalent (adj) having mixed or uncertain feelings about something. The man for the first time was ambivalent about jumping off the building and the hard work of the psychologists seemed to pay off. The tourists were ambivalent about where they were and their tour guide was nowhere to be seen.
• Cryptic (adj) secret or hidden; mysterious or mystifying; having a secret or ambiguous meaning. They cryptic underground vaults of the London Bridge are one of the most haunted locales on Earth. The hieroglyphs are though to be cryptic. The cryptic paradise of Jurassic Period's remains wasn't found until the beginning of the 21st century.