SAT VOCAB QUIZ

biting, bitter in tone or taste

• acerbic

• amity

• ignominious

• taut

to improve

• scorn

• vivify

• erudite

• ameliorate

to support, hold up

• buttress

• impart

• lament

• panacea

the marking of boundaries or categories

• candor

• demarcation

• adverbial

• assuage

easily angered

• blight

• maelstrom

• frenetic

• irascible

a remedy for all ills or difficulties

• viscous

• bourgeois

• maverick

• panacea

small in quantity

• noxious

• garish

• brusque

• paucity

significant, conspicuous

• oblique

• abnegation

• salient

• stupefy

the appearance of being true or real

• verisimilitude

• clemency

• acute

• ebullient

the activity of giving vitality and vigor to something

• dauntless

• vivification

• permeate

• euphoric