SAT Words Cards # 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cantankerous | having a difficult, uncooperative or stubborn disposition, adj The most outwardly cantankerous man in the nursing home was surprisingly sweet and loving with his grandchildren |
| Incriminating | makes a person look guilty of a crime, noun |
| Decorum | propriety and good taste in behavior, speech, or dress, adj |
| Dogmatic | arrogant, mean behaviour, adj |
| Lofty | Overly proud and arrogant, adj |
| Menagerie | collection of animals kept for exhibition, noun |
| Inadvertently | Unintentionally, verb |
| Inconspicuous | Not easily noticable, adj |
| Constituent | Voters represented by elected offficial, component, citizen, noun |
| Improbable | unlikely to occur, noun |
| Inevitable | Unavoidable, will definately occurr, If only EVitable: Is avoidable |
| Sanctioned | Having authoritative approval, adj |
| Loophole | an omission or (reinforces to define the law again) ambiguity in the wording of a contract |
| Artifice | false or insincere behavior, adj |
| Benign | Nice and having a pleasent attitude, adj |
| Solitude | Isolation, adj |
| Amenable | Farma Bardar, resposible, good manners/morals, adj |
| surmount | to overcome, conquer verb |
| besieged | to surround by hostile forces, verb |
| Irascible | easily angered, hot-tempered, adj |
| Resilience | the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune, verb |
| mercurial | quickly changeable, adj |
| Verbatim | word to word, excately follows what someone said. adj. e.g. the journalist's quotes in articles were verbatim to the speakers. |
| Voracious | Having a huge appetite, either noun or adj |
| Imperiled | In danger, adj |
| Subtle | seroius, adj |
| static | eternal, never changing, staying the same, adj |
| Holistic | functioning as a whole, noun |
| Elusive | hard to find, rare, adj |
| Combative | eager to fight, to defend self, noun |
| prolific | highly productive, adj |
| reclusive | unsociable, adj |
| rescind | remove, cancel, verb |
| Lackdaisical | careless, lack of care, sloppy. adj |
| exacerbated | made worse, noun |
| alloy | blend of materials/something, not pure, adj |
| unalloy | without blend of materials, pure. adj |
| Stagnant | dead and lifeless, adj/noun |
| Jingoistic | ecessively nationalistic, adj |
| ravenous | extremely hungry, noun |
| sumptous | costly, lavish, adj |
| propensity | tendecy, to try to do something, verb |
| exorbitant | EXTRA, extravagant, excessice, adj |
| concise | brief, striaght to point, noun/adj |
| contentious | causing controversy, causing argument/disagreement, noun |
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