SAT words
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julianne2014 on April 8, 2012
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51 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dogmatic | following every rule |
| Skittish | shy & nervous |
| succinct | in very few words |
| effusive | a lot |
| perjury | lie before a judge |
| gerrymandering | dividing voting districts for an unfair advantage |
| anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred |
| jingoism | super patriotic |
| sanguine | optimistic & happy (economic trends) |
| choleric | angry |
| phlegmatic | unable to be changed |
| extortion | demand money for doing something |
| insurgency | uprising |
| incumbent | current people in office |
| scourges | means of causing suffering/ death |
| innocuous | don't even notice |
| denizen | resident |
| galvanized | electrificed |
| laconic | using few words |
| reticent | using few words |
| terse | using few words |
| cursory | using few words |
| concise | using few words |
| succinct | using few words |
| banal | ordinary |
| mundane | ordinary |
| prosaic | ordinary |
| commonplace | ordinary |
| conventional | ordinary |
| pedestrian | ordinary |
| trite | ordinary |
| punctilious | detail-oriented |
| scrupulous | detail-oriented |
| meticulous | detail-oriented |
| fastidious | detail-oriented |
| adept | skillful |
| adroit | skillful |
| agile | skillful |
| dexterous | skillful |
| waver | indecisive |
| vacillate | indecisive |
| hesitate | indecisive |
| fluctuate | indecisive |
| wary | indecisive |
| inconsistency | indecisive |
| equivocate | indecisive |
| waffle | indecisive |
| capricious | indecisive |
| mercurial | indecisive |
| dilatory | indecisive |
| irresolute | indecisive |
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