Prepare for the LSAT with these vocabulary flashcard questions and answers. This covers reading comprehension terms, logical reasoning vocabulary, and analytical language.
Q: apathy
Answer: lack of emotion
Q: anecdote
Answer: interesting, amusing story
Q: acquiesce
Answer: to give in, agree
Q: acuity
Answer: ability to understand
Q: ascetic
Answer: self-denying (w/o indulgence or luxury)
Q: apprehension
Answer: anxiety, fear
Q: advocated
Answer: to speak or write in favor
Q: autonomy
Answer: self-governing, independence
Q: annotate
Answer: to supply with explanatoy notes
Q: accosted
Answer: to confront boldy, to approach
Q: animosity
Answer: a feeling of dislike
Q: appellations
Answer: a name, title
Q: aberration
Answer: abnormal
Q: atrophied
Answer: wasted, withered
Q: anathema
Answer: something hated
Q: adherent
Answer: who follows or upholds a leader,cause
Q: acceded
Answer: to give consent,approval
Q: anomolies
Answer: deviation from common type, exception
Q: affronted
Answer: a personal offensive act
Q: amoral
Answer: uncontrolled
Q: ascertain
Answer: to make sure
Q: acquisition
Answer: gaining possession
Q: antecedent
Answer: prior, earlier
Q: altruistic
Answer: unselfish
Q: ambiguous
Answer: having more than one meaning
Q: postulate
Answer: suppose, figure
Q: discernible
Answer: recognizable, distinct, distinguishable
Q: faulted
Answer: ridicule
Q: conjectured
Answer: speculated, believed
Q: beacon
Answer: guide
Q: banal
Answer: commonplace, dull,ordinary
Q: bastion
Answer: fortified place, strong fort
Q: futile
Answer: hopeless, pointless
Q: impartial
Answer: fair, unprejudice
Q: bolster
Answer: help
Q: blithely
Answer: happily, brightly
Q: telling
Answer: efficient
Q: atypical
Answer: not conforming to the type, irregular
Q: posit
Answer: set,assumes
Q: chronic
Answer: never ending
Q: conducive
Answer: favorable
Q: emmitted
Answer: diffuse, discharge, spread out
Q: recalcitrant
Answer: disobediant, uncontrolled
Q: conversely
Answer: contrary, reverse
Q: rescinded
Answer: voic, cancel
Q: cursory
Answer: casual, careless
Q: reverence
Answer: admiration
Q: naive
Answer: trusting, childlike
Q: obstinate
Answer: stubborn, determined
Q: renders
Answer: contribute
Q: fodder
Answer: animal feed
Q: spurred
Answer: incited, prompted
Q: recapitulation
Answer: summary
Q: evanescent
Answer: brief, fading, transient
Q: employ
Answer: make use of
Q: homage
Answer: admiration
Q: curtailment
Answer: to cut short
Q: cessation
Answer: a stopping
Q: contemptuous
Answer: arrogant
Q: contempt
Answer: disrespect
Q: censure
Answer: strong expression of disapproval
Q: connotes
Answer: to suggest
Q: cede
Answer: relinquish, abandon
Q: concede
Answer: to acknowledge as true, admit
Q: contention
Answer: competition
Q: correspondingly
Answer: to be in agreement or conformity
Q: candor
Answer: conpletely honest
Q: capricious
Answer: unpredictable
Q: austere
Answer: severe, strict
Q: complacent
Answer: smug, pleased, self satisfied
Q: credulous
Answer: gulible
Q: curmudgeon
Answer: bad tempored/ difficult
Q: concomitant
Answer: occuring with something else
Q: discourse
Answer: communicate through words, talk, speech
Q: derisive
Answer: characterized by mocking
Q: denounced
Answer: to condemn openly
Q: despotism
Answer: absolute authority
Q: disdain
Answer: dislike
Q: decorous
Answer: appropriate, suitable
Q: dissidents
Answer: disagreeing
Q: deplore
Answer: regret deeply
Q: dogmatic
Answer: opinionated
Q: disparaged
Answer: depreciate, discredit
Q: discordant
Answer: disagreeing, conflicting
Q: divergent
Answer: differing
Q: disparity
Answer: inequality, difference
Q: depravity
Answer: corruption,wickedness
Q: discern
Answer: to distinguish one thing from another
Q: drone
Answer: person who is lazy
Q: desecrate
Answer: to show disrespect
Q: distort
Answer: twist,give a false, misrepresent
Q: euphonious
Answer: pleasant sounding
Q: elicit
Answer: to bring out or forth, evoke-draw out
Q: enumerate
Answer: list, count, compute
Q: elusive
Answer: evasive, mysterious
Q: eminently
Answer: exceptionally, well, extremely
Q: exhort
Answer: urge, warn, advise
Q: epithets
Answer: nickname, description
Q: exposition
Answer: writen descrprition
Q: euphemism
Answer: nice way of saying something
Q: execration
Answer: hating
Q: esoteric
Answer: mysterious,obscure
Q: elucidate
Answer: explain in detail
Q: ephemeral
Answer: momentary, passing
Q: epitomize
Answer: typify, characterize
Q: egregious
Answer: outstandingly, bad, outrageous
Q: employ
Answer: make sure of, apply
Q: ensure
Answer: guarentee
Q: schew
Answer: have nothing to do with
Q: equivocate
Answer: avoid an issue
Q: extant
Answer: in existance, actual, alive
Q: expedient
Answer: convenient, worthwhile
Q: fortify
Answer: to protect, strengthen against attack
Q: feasible
Answer: possible
Q: flagrant
Answer: bold, with out shame
Q: fastidious
Answer: very careful, meticulous, overly critical
Q: grievance
Answer: complaint
Q: solidity
Answer: thicknedd
Q: assessing
Answer: evalutating
Q: shirk
Answer: avoid
Q: innate
Answer: inherited
Q: convey
Answer: transport
Q: deplore
Answer: regret, condemn
Q: ramification
Answer: consequence, development
Q: debilitate
Answer: incapacitate
Q: indeed
Answer: actually
Q: granted
Answer: agree or consent
Q: nonetheless
Answer: however
Q: err
Answer: make a mistake
Q: disseminate
Answer: distriute, scatter
Q: gamut
Answer: enitre scale or range
Q: guise
Answer: appearance or behavior
Q: guile
Answer: cunning,deceitful
Q: deleterious
Answer: harmful, damaging
Q: credence
Answer: trust, acceptance
Q: exacerbate
Answer: make worse
Q: despotism
Answer: absolute power
Q: subsequent
Answer: after, later
Q: disdain
Answer: hate, dislike
Q: antipathy
Answer: strong dislike
Q: aversion
Answer: strong dislike, opposition
Q: incessant
Answer: nonstop
Q: immutable
Answer: unchanging, permanent
Q: impede
Answer: hinder,
Q: incite
Answer: to encourage, urge on
Q: incensed
Answer: to inflame with anger
Q: invariably
Answer: a constant
Q: inclination
Answer: tendency towards a certain condition
Q: inevitably
Answer: unaviodable, bound to happen
Q: innocuous
Answer: harmless, insignificant
Q: indespensable
Answer: absolutely neccessary
Q: impediment
Answer: hindurance
Q: irony
Answer: sarcasm
Q: impetus
Answer: stimulus, force
Q: indolence
Answer: laziness
Q: insipid
Answer: bland, boring
Q: lapsed
Answer: become void, cease
Q: lattitude
Answer: freedom, room to move
Q: manifesto
Answer: declarations of intentions
Q: mundane
Answer: ordinary
Q: novel
Answer: new, interesting
Q: obsolete
Answer: no longer in general use
Q: oscillate
Answer: change back and forth
Q: avers
Answer: maintains
Q: purport
Answer: meaning, implication
Q: congenial
Answer: friendly, compatible
Q: irrespective
Answer: without regard to something
Q: moot
Answer: doubtful, arguable, debateable
Q: banalities
Answer: common saying
Q: perennially
Answer: lasting for a long time
Q: referenda
Answer: popular vote on matter
Q: insuperable
Answer: impassable, impossible
Q: bullish
Answer: effective, powerful
Q: interim
Answer: temporary
Q: sedentary
Answer: lazy
Q: ardent
Answer: very enthusiastic
Q: appropriated
Answer: set aside, allocated
Q: moreover
Answer: additionally
Q: empathize
Answer: identify with
Q: predisposed
Answer: make susceptible
Q: pulpit
Answer: platform in a church
Q: prose
Answer: ordinary form of spoken or written language
Q: proselytizing
Answer: to convert, recruit
Q: perputrating
Answer: to commit, execute
Q: peril
Answer: danger, risk
Q: pedagogic
Answer: educational
Q: posited
Answer: supposed
Q: pervasive
Answer: extensive
Q: prevaricate
Answer: deceive, stretch the truth
Q: pundit
Answer: person who is authority
Q: prodigal
Answer: wasteful
Q: prosaic
Answer: unimaginative
Q: peripheral
Answer: on the ede, unimportant, minor
Q: parsimony
Answer: stinginess
Q: provincial
Answer: narrow minded, limited, unsophisticated
Q: refracts
Answer: bend
Q: refutation
Answer: to prove to be false, as an opinion
Q: repugnant
Answer: offensive, distasteful
Q: rhetorical
Answer: used for, belonging to
Q: resumption
Answer: renewal
Q: remnant
Answer: left over part
Q: raucous
Answer: noisy
Q: recondite
Answer: mysterious, obscure
Q: rudimentary
Answer: basic, fundamental
Q: requisite
Answer: need
Q: retort
Answer: snappy answer
Q: reticence
Answer: silence
Q: remnant
Answer: fragments
Q: revere
Answer: to worship, high opinion of
Q: respite
Answer: a break, a rest, pause
Q: susceptible
Answer: capable of being affected
Q: sedition
Answer: incitement of rebellion against a gov
Q: supplement
Answer: something added to
Q: stringent
Answer: rigorously binding, strict
Q: stident
Answer: harsh, shrill
Q: surmounted
Answer: overcome
Q: siphon
Answer: pipe
Q: servile
Answer: grovelling, subserviant, overly submissive
Q: subserviant
Answer: extremely compliant
Q: squander
Answer: use up
Q: varied
Answer: different
Q: niche
Answer: place all one’s own; calling
Q: chasms
Answer: gaps; cavity; cleavage;cleft
Q: sentiment
Answer: emotion,belief
Q: guild
Answer: association,company,corporation, fellowship, group
Q: evinces
Answer: manifest,declare, indicate
Q: purveyed
Answer: to provide, to furnish, to supply- usually as a business or system
Q: wield
Answer: control, use, command, conduct
Q: vigor
Answer: power, energy
Q: veneer
Answer: pretense, front, affected show, cover, appearance
Q: despotic
Answer: dictatorial, tyrannical
Q: patronize
Answer: to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one’s regular patronage; trade with.2. to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students.
Q: fraught
Answer: full of, charged, filled
Q: concession
Answer: yielding, adjustment, acknowledge
Q: capitulation
Answer: giving in
Q: hegemony
Answer: domination,authority,command
Q: gross
Answer: bring in as total
Q: idiosyncratic
Answer: something peculiar to an individual,distinctive, personal
Q: stricture
Answer: remark or comment, especially adverse comment
Q: recoupe
Answer: recover, make up for
Q: aggregate
Answer: forming a collection from seperate parts
Q: fusion
Answer: melding, mixture, blend
Q: repertory
Answer: collection
Q: outlay
Answer: expenses, cost, charge
Q: redound
Answer: to have a good or bad effect or result, as to the advantage or disadvantage of a person or thing.
Q: accrue
Answer: increase by addition or growth, often financial- accumulate, collect, build up
Q: extraneous
Answer: irrelevant-additional
Q: impertinent
Answer: bold, disrespectful
Q: tangent
Answer: touching, in contact
Q: dereliction
Answer: conscious neglect, abandonment
Q: stymie
Answer: frustrate, hinder
Q: staple
Answer: neccessary, basc
Q: capitalsm
Answer: private ownership of business
Q: inhibit
Answer: restrict, prevent
Q: superfluous
Answer: extra, unneccessary
Q: disparate
Answer: at odds, different
Q: arbitrarily
Answer: without delay, immediately
Q: totalitarian
Answer: exercising control over freedom
Q: tenet
Answer: belief, principle
Q: terse
Answer: brief, short
Q: temporal
Answer: material, worldly
Q: tacitum
Answer: silent, uncommunicative
Q: virulent
Answer: harmful
Q: vehement
Answer: passionate
Q: viability
Answer: animation, spirit
Q: viable
Answer: reasonable, practicle
Q: ponderous
Answer: weighty, heavy
Q: protracted
Answer: drawn out, lengthy
Q: deference
Answer: a show of respect
Q: paucity
Answer: scarcity
Q: profuse
Answer: very abundant
Q: conciliate
Answer: to soothe anger
Q: didactic
Answer: intending to teach
Q: diffident
Answer: shy, lacking confident
Q: digression
Answer: staying off topic
Q: elucidate
Answer: to explain, make clear
Q: laud
Answer: to praise
Q: astute
Answer: clever
Q: censure
Answer: blame, severely criticize
Q: allay
Answer: to lessen fear, to calm
Q: affable
Answer: easy to talk to, approachable, friendly
Q: baneful
Answer: causing ruin, harmful, pernicious
Q: berate
Answer: scold
Q: indolent
Answer: lazy
Q: ardent
Answer: full of passion and emotion
Q: chary
Answer: cautious, wary
Q: clandestine
Answer: hidden, secret
Q: imprudent
Answer: careless, rash
Q: thwart
Answer: stop
Q: appreciable
Answer: considerable
Q: zeal
Answer: enthusiasm
Q: inimical
Answer: unfavorable, contrary
Q: arable
Answer: farmable
Q: ineffectual
Answer: useless
Q: inadvertently
Answer: unintentional
Q: prudent
Answer: wise, sensible in action
Q: seemingly
Answer: apparent
Q: incriminate
Answer: accuse
Q: susceptible
Answer: exposed
Q: thus
Answer: in this manner, hence
Q: successive
Answer: following
Q: propensity
Answer: inclination, weakness
Q: stopgap
Answer: temp help
Q: vindicated
Answer: prove ones innocence
Q: succession
Answer: continuation
Q: inappreciable
Answer: imperceptible, hard to sense, insignificant
Q: bewilder
Answer: confuse
Q: void
Answer: empty
Q: content
Answer: compete, fight
Q: tempered
Answer: calm
Q: exhilaration
Answer: excitement
Q: concurrently
Answer: all at one
Q: impart
Answer: make know, announce
Q: impugn
Answer: criticize, challenge
Q: inapplicable
Answer: not relevant, extraneous
Q: preceded
Answer: foreshadow, before
Q: undergirded
Answer: held up, support
Q: rhetoric
Answer: speech
Q: assimilate
Answer: comprehend
Q: contemporaries
Answer: existing at same time, modern
Q: dearth
Answer: absence, insufficiently, inadequate supply
Q: repudiated
Answer: reject as having no authority, reject
Q: affable
Answer: friendly
Q: assuage
Answer: to reduce pain
Q: avarice
Answer: greed
Q: dissonance
Answer: lack of agreement or harmony
Q: listless
Answer: without energy
Q: philistine
Answer: one who lacks culture or taste
Q: adulation
Answer: adoration
Q: futile
Answer: hopeless, pointless
Q: languid
Answer: slow and listless
Q: impasse
Answer: position or situation in which there is no escape….deadlock
Q: hermeneutic
Answer: explanatory
Q: proliferation
Answer: conception, generation (a rapid and often excessive spread or increase: nuclear proliferation)
Q: genesis
Answer: beginning, creation
Q: coincided
Answer: go along with; coexist
Q: centrifugal
Answer: radiating from a central point
Q: profusion
Answer: abundance, excess
Q: intermittently
Answer: at times
Q: intrinsically
Answer: fundamentally, basically
Q: accruing
Answer: increase by addition or growth (often financial); accumulate
Q: inadvertence
Answer: neglect
Q: manifested
Answer: exhbited
Q: facsimile
Answer: an exact copy
Q: yielded
Answer: produced
Q: punitive
Answer: concerning punishment
Q: trenchantly
Answer: vigorous; effective; energetic: a trenchant policy of political reform.
Q: insurmountable
Answer: impossible, hopeless
Q: counterintuitive
Answer: counter to what intuition would lead one to expect: The direction we had to follow was counterintuitive—we had to go north first before we went south.
Q: provenance
Answer: birthplace, place of origin
Q: concomitant
Answer: contributing, accompany
Q: regresses
Answer: return to earlier way of doing things
Q: allusion
Answer: indirect refrence, hint
Q: spate
Answer: series
Q: impart
Answer: make known
Q: stringent
Answer: strict, severe
Q: antithetical
Answer: reverse, contradictory
Q: corollaries
Answer: conclusion, deduction
Q: voracious
Answer: very hungry, greedy
Q: dearth
Answer: insufficient, scarcity
Q: perennial
Answer: enduring
Q: ensued
Answer: start to happen
Q: faction
Answer: group sharing a belief or cause
Q: salient
Answer: noticeable, important
Q: inordinate
Answer: excessive
Q: emboldened
Answer: encourage
Q: tenacious
Answer: strong
Q: adherence
Answer: devotion
Q: bohemian
Answer: artistic, nonconformist
Q: forbearing
Answer: avoid, resist the temptation
Q: repudiation
Answer: denial
Q: convenient
Answer: appropriate, useful
Q: ubiquity
Answer: ever present, everywhere
Q: pacifist
Answer: peace love
Q: prodded
Answer: poke at, nudge
Q: insurgent
Answer: rebellious
Q: promulgate
Answer: make known
Q: vaunted
Answer: exhibit, brag
Q: pernicious
Answer: harm, ruin, injury
Q: obviate
Answer: make unnecessary
Q: illicit
Answer: not legal, forbidden
Q: fortified
Answer: make strong and secure, add to
Q: forage
Answer: search madly for, explore
Q: yields
Answer: production of labor, income, output
Q: abstain
Answer: hold back from doing
Q: attrition
Answer: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: