SAT Vocabulary: List #9

  1. aspersion (noun): the act of slandering or defaming someone; a damaging rumor
  2. This wicked ASPERSION will destroy my career; I cannot believe Juila started such a slanderous and false rumor!
  3. capricious (adj): tending to make sudden and unpredictable changes
  4. Søren can be so CAPRICIOUS due to his youth; one day he loves something and the next day he screams the he hates it!
  5. despot (noun): a tyrant; somebody who behaves in a tyrannical way
  6. Sometimes toddlers can behave like DESPOTS, yelling orders at people and bossing them around.
  7. equivocate (verb): to speak vaguely or ambiguously, especially to mislead.
  8. Criminals often talk in circles; they EQUIVOCATE their interrogators in order to avoid being caught.
  9. pedestrian (adj): ordinary, unimaginative, or uninspired
  10. I found the play prosaic; its PEDESTRIAN plot was nothing new because its dull story has been told so many times in the same repetitive way.