PSAT: Challenging Words: List 9

We've identified 200 challenging words you may see on the PSAT. Rely on your knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to guess the meaning of each word as you practice and master each list.
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  1. perquisite
    an incidental benefit for certain types of employment
  2. diurnal
    having a daily cycle or occurring every day
  3. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  4. attrition
    the act of rubbing together
  5. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  6. expunge
    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  7. Zeitgeist
    the spirit of the time
  8. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  9. fracas
    a noisy, angry argument or fight between people
  10. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  11. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  12. moribund
    being on the point of death
  13. captious
    tending to find and call attention to faults
  14. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  15. choleric
    characterized by anger
Created on Thu Jun 05 15:36:14 EDT 2025 (updated Thu Nov 20 13:29:02 EST 2025)

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