SAT Vocabulary 4 Tools A B odious hateful; repugnant propaganda the spreading of information to further or damage a cause indolence laziness emigrant one who leaves a place for the purpose of settling in another clandestine held in or conducted in secrecy; surreptitious contumacy stubborn disobedience repository a place in which goods are stored solicitude uneasiness of mind; anxiety or concern ascension the act of rising commute to revoke a penalty for a milder one onus a burden or responsibility prominence the quality of being noticeable or eminently distinguished resilient having the ability to regain original shape; ability to adjust easily to change elegy a lyric poem lamenting the dead