SAT Vocabulary Quiz

speckle or fleck esp with paint, effect of many small dots

• amble

• impalpable

• stipple

• striate

amateur, dabbler

• shibboleth

• redolent

• pedantry

• dilettante

foolish, silly

• fatuous

• ludicrous

• arrant

• naivete

range of all colors, complete range

• specimen

• amplitude

• cyclical

• spectrum

to think hard, ponder

• cogitate

• emanate

• alienate

• prevaricate

strong tasting or smelling

• fragrant

• pungent

• truculent

• virulent

contradict, give false cover to

• belie

• negate

• doctrine

• deify

dry

• tepid

• drone

• arid

• parched

come together, merge

• converge

• emerge

• disperse

• cyclical

like a pontiff, pope, extremely authoritative

• pernicious

• doctrine

• primordial

• pontifical