SAT words!

I will "sticky" this post to my blog description, and every day(or almost every day) I'll add a word and definition.

I'll start hiding the list when it gets longer.
Alacrity: eagerness
Asinine: stupid
Austere: using a little, stingy
Brusque: rough and abrupt
Callow: inexperienced
Chicanery: trickery
Clandestine: secret
Congenial: friendly
Copious: a lot
Drivel: nonsense, slobber
Elan: self-assurance, enthusiasm
Errant: straying
Erudite: learned
Execrable: detestable
Exiguous: scanty, meager
Facetious: playful, joking
Fecund: fertile, capable of producing off-spring
Fugacious: short, short-lived
Furtive: secret, stealthy
Gaffe: social blunder
Glib: insincerely fluent, offhand
Hubris: self-destructive arrogance
Impugn: to call into question
Indecorous: inappropriate
Indelible: not erasable
Invidious: envious, hostile
Laconic: using few words
Libertine: lacking moral restraint
Limpid: clear (water)
Magnanimous: generous
Maladroit: clumsy
Malady: illness
Maudlin: overly sentimental
Maven: expert
Miffed: irritated
Moribund decayed, dying
Obdurate: stubborn
Officious: overly helpful
Ostracize: to exclude from a group
Palaver: idle talk, nonsense
Perfunctory: done without interest
Periphery: the outside edge, border
Placid: calm, peaceful
Polemic: controversy
Profligate: corrupt, degenerate
Regale to entertain
Querulous: inclined to complain
Salubrious: healthful
Sedulous: diligent
Semantic: related to meaning
Sinuous: winding, intricate
Soporific: causing sleep
Stricture: restraint, criticism
Summarily: speedily, without ceremony
Transmute: to change appearance
Travesty: parody, mockery
Umbrage: offense, resentment
Vacuous: empty
Vagary: erratic occurrence

* Note: Words taken from various "SAT word" websites, as well as a list of SAT words compiled by Stephen M. Johnson, M.A. *