SAT Essay Vocabulary

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goad or urge forward; provoke; incite


Spelling Word: instigate
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expression by deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; witty language used to insult


Spelling Word: irony
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present or potential but not evident or active; dormant; hidden


Spelling Word: latent
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strong inclination; definite liking


Spelling Word: penchant
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in great quantity or abundance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal


Spelling Word: profuse
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tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding


Spelling Word: prohibitive
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retract a previous statement; sing over again; utter repeatedly in song


Spelling Word: recant
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form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly


Spelling Word: satire
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soak, fill, or load to capacity; cause to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance


Spelling Word: saturate
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somewhat less than needed in amplitude or extent; insufficient


Spelling Word: scanty