PSAT Lesson 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ambiguous | Having more than one meaning; (Finding an _________ test question is frustrating, since more than one answer can be correct.) |
| Amiable | Friendly, sociable, and congeniable, civil and urbane; (She was blessed with having such an ___________ friend who was almost always good natured and obliging.) |
| Crass | Coarse, crude, and underfined; (Using foul language in front of your mother is ________) |
| Discursive | Rambling, moving from one topic to another ramdomly; (His ________ speech was hard to follow.) |
| Docile | Easily managed, obediant, passive; (The dog was ________ until the doorbell rang.) |
| Estrange | To alienate, or seperate; (The neccessity to travel in his business may _________ him from his family for a short period of time.) |
| Exonerate | To free from blame, obligation, or responsibility to exculpate; (I need your testimony to __________ me from this charge.) |
| Gratuitous | Givin freely, unwarented; (I resent your _________ comments becouse no one asked for them.) |
| Hypothesize | To reach a conclusion based on an assumption, or something not proven; (Before you begin your eperiments you should __________ about the possible outcomes.) |
| Indignation | Anger as a result of something; (I have much _________ about the light sentence given to the drunk driver who ran over my chid.) |
| Induce | To bring on or to bring about; (His personality changes were ___________ by his drugs.) |
| Intractable | Stubborn, difficult to manage; (The _________ child was a discipline problem in every class.) |
| Introspective | The quality of examining ones own mind or thoughts; (I must be very _____________ before I make my decision.) |
| Lucid | Easily understood, mentally sound; (His __________ remarks helped everyone understand the new tax code.) |
| Meticulous | Taking great care, (I am usually very _________ in completing my assignments.) |
| Misanthrope | A hater of man kind; (Hopefully, nuclear weapons will never fall into the hands of ______________.) |
| Munificent | Very generous; (The ___________ gift to the store was appreciated by all of the students.) |
| Plagiarize | To steal and to use anothers writing as ones own; (English teachers are always on the lookout for materials in themes that are ___________________.) |
| Profuse | Extravagantly abundent, flowingfreely; (Cutting that artery will cause _____________ bleeding.) |
| Recluse | A person who lives in solitude, a hermit; (Howard Hughs is the most famous ____________ of the century.) |
| Sated | Satisfied fully, indulged to excess; (He was quite _________ over finishing the 7-course meal.) |
| Stupefy | To dull the senses, as to put into a stupor; (That boring lecture would ____________ anyone with any intelligence.) |
| Terse | Concise; (The president gave a __________ statement dismissing the charges of the opposing party.) |
| Transient | Quickly passing, fleeting; (The moment of happiness she enjoyed was merely __________; soon she was depressed.) |
| Virtuouso | One skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished muscian, a savant; (And then having played with some of the greatest symphonies of the world, he was known as a _______________) |
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