04 Aug Complex Vocabulary with Explanations Frequently used in SAT / ACT

1. Deleterious: Harmful or damaging

• Disparage: To criticize to disrespect

• Elude: To escape from, (generally used as escaping by tricking others)

• Elusive: Difficult to Find

• Earmark: To keep separate (an amount, something) for a specific purpose or person.

• Embroiled: to get involved in a difficult situation

• Endure: Suffer patiently

• Endurance: the ability to endure a difficult process, the capacity of something to withstand wear and tear

• Emulate: To imitate someone or something with intentions of surpassing them

1. Expunge: Remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant)

1. Esoteric: Meant for or understood by only a small group with special knowledge

1. Expurgate: To remove parts of a writing that can be offensive or unsuitable

1. Egregious: Extremely bad, shocking

1. Flattery: Excessive or insincere praise

1. Flattered: To feel pleased as someone said good things about you or someone shows their admiration towards you

1. Fidelity: support or loyalty to a person or an organization

1. Fatuous: Silly or foolish

1. Flout: Openly disregard a rule or law

1. Fraudulent:  something done by deception, especially criminal deception

• Fractious: irritable or quarrelsome (referred towards children)

• Genesis: The origin or mode of formation of something

• Genetic: Related to gene or heredity

• Germinal: Relating to or of the nature of a germ cell

• Gratuitous: Uncalled for, something done without a good reason

• Harbinger: A forerunner of something

• Heretical: against official or popular opinion

• Hinder: Make it difficult for someone to do something or for something to happen

• Illusive: Deceptive

• Elusive: difficult to find

• Inception: Starting point of an institution or activity