<p>Always flattering his boss in an attempt to recieve a raise, Bob could easily be described as a Sycophant.</p>
<p>Just for future reference, whenever possible, can we post words that have appeared on past official sats or official practice sats (blue book, online course, etc)? This way we aren’t just studying the first word that comes to our minds, but words that may appear in the future!</p>
<p>diatribe</p>
<p>David’s criticism of Johnny’s speech eventually turned into a diatribe against the speech as whole.</p>
<p>I remember this from one of the SATs I took
tacit</p>
<p>The tacit understanding of the teacher was expressed to her student as she was ascertained he acquired vigilance in his studies when listening to her last lecture.</p>
<p>gerrymander</p>
<p>The gerrymandering system in the States in fact works against rather than for democracy.</p>
<p>dessicate</p>
<p>The soaked clothes on the clothing line were desiccated by the sun’s heart.</p>
<p>bathos</p>
<p>His bathos was obvious from his sanctimonious reaction to the wedding proposal.</p>
<p>nous</p>
<p>Lets not leave the thread die ppl!</p>
<p>He has this natural nous which surprises most of his teachers.</p>
<p>betroth</p>
<p>In the medieval era, many young maidens were betrothed to prosperous men to give the family prestige and wealth</p>
<p>denizen</p>
<p>The people living in the city are the city’s denizens.</p>
<p>Apathy</p>
<p>There is a general apathy toward this thread and people are not posting with as much alacrity as they once did.</p>
<p>Leucistic ;)</p>
<p>If I had to chose the most despised villain from my readings, I would pick the annoying leucistic albino from The Da Vinci Code.</p>
<p>rebuke</p>
<p>He was forced to rebuke his classmate’s statement.</p>
<p>alacrity</p>
<p>As the teacher assigned the project, one of the students immediately set to work with alacrity.</p>
<p>Incipient</p>
<p>Sue new that her incipient cold was just the beginning of influenza.</p>
<p>anthropocentric</p>
<p>Jacks anthropocentric views and inability to think otherwise annoyed a lot of the people in the classroom.</p>
<p>querulous</p>
<p>Mary slapped her querulous sister, as she was distracting her from her homework.</p>
<p>irreverent</p>
<p>While the majority of the tourists were standing in awe at the beauty of the aurora borealis, a small group of them was irreverently joking around.</p>
<p>Paradigm</p>
<p>while memorizing PARADIGMS, I learned that many verb endings are the same in latin and greek.</p>
<p>Tralatitious</p>
<p>In ancient times, due to the lack of written recordings, many stories and tales were tralatitious in nature.</p>
<p>stigma</p>