<p>Castigate - criticize severely.</p>
<p>Many reporters castigate Marisa Mayer’s recent actions in Yahoo.</p>
<p>Stellar</p>
<p>Pertaining to stars</p>
<p>The night time landscape was gently aglow in the stellar light</p>
<p>Porcine</p>
<p>Porcine - Pertaining to pigs</p>
<p>Jakes eating habits have porcine qualities (Can I use it like that? XD)</p>
<p>Voyeur</p>
<p>Voyeur- one who enjoys the pain of others.</p>
<p>Many argue that Hitler’s disturbing childhood aided in the process of creating the voyeur he was.</p>
<p>hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia XD (lol… I’ve always LOVED THIS WORD… LOL)</p>
<p>hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - fear of long words</p>
<p>Incase you one has a hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, he may want to avoid reading about his phobia.</p>
<p>Inducement</p>
<p>Inducement- something to get someone to do something, a bribe</p>
<p>“Unlike the previous governor I shall not be swayed by inducements by any one or any party” The newly elected governor said.</p>
<p>Loquacity</p>
<p>loquacity= talk alot; antonym of reticence, taciturn, laconic</p>
<p>mr. F’s loquacity surpasses that of the Great Kobe Bryant.</p>
<p>Brouhaha</p>
<p>Brouhaha: (Noun) An uproar, commotion, hubbub</p>
<p>This brouhaha is making me hungry.</p>
<p>Kafkaesque</p>
<p>Kafkaesque: nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical
<em>Also note that this word is an eponym, which is another SAT word!</em></p>
<p>The process of deleting one’s Facebook account is deliberately Kafkaesque.</p>
<p>Canonical</p>
<p>Canonical-Conforming to orthodox or well-established rules or patterns, as of procedure</p>
<p>Drill sergeants tend to be canonical when training the new recruits.</p>
<p>Surreptitious</p>
<p>surreptitious: done with stealth</p>
<p>The students made a surreptitious exchange of a slip of paper when passing a note in class.</p>
<p>svelte</p>
<p>Svelte-elegant, slender</p>
<p>Nick Carraway describes Jordan Baker, the professional golfer, as svelte</p>
<p>Somnambulist</p>
<p>somnambulist: sleepwalker</p>
<p>I wonder if Dom Cobb from “Inception” would be considered a somnambulist, since the movie depicts him as completely lucid and awake even though he is technically asleep.</p>
<p>facile (lol we’re just going back and forth)</p>
<p>Facile-easily done or used</p>
<p>The win against the basketball team was so facile that the other team felt no pride.</p>
<p>Aperture</p>
<p>Aperture- opening</p>
<p>I was surprised to see that this thread had been reborn and celebrated by extracting mollusks from their aperture.</p>
<p>Zeal</p>
<p>Zeal: Fervor</p>
<p>After staying up until 2 AM to see my SAT score, I went to school the next day with zeal, knowing that I had achieved a 2400. </p>
<p>Facetious</p>
<p>Facetious- inappropriately humorous </p>
<p>After laughing off a 50% on my physics test, students determined that I was facetious by nature.</p>
<p>Disparage</p>
<p>disparage: belittle or abuse</p>
<p>Many people disparage the show “Jersey Shore” as being evidence of the decline of America, even though the show is not representative of the whole of our society.</p>
<p>panegyric</p>
<p>Panegyric: speech to praise someone</p>
<p>Rather than disparaging his professor after receiving a bad grade on the test, Peter instead wrote a panegyric lauding the virtues of his mentor.</p>
<p>inchoate</p>
<p>Inchoate: new</p>
<p>My catapult for physics was inchoate and I got an C (true story)</p>
<p>edit: the word is ambivalent</p>