SAT study words
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SnazzyReader on June 19, 2012
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Week one
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Clarity | clearness in thought or expression |
| Cogent | convincing; reasonable |
| Cohesive | condition of sticking together |
| Compelling | forceful; urgently demanding attention |
| Convoluted | intricate; complex |
| Didactic | intended to instruct |
| Dogmatic | characterized by a stubborn adherence to a belief |
| Effusive | describing unrestrained emotional expression; pouring freely |
| Emphatic | expressed or expressing with emphasis |
| Florid | very flowery in style |
| Fluid | easily flowing |
| Hackneyed | overfamiliar through overuse; trite |
| Rapport | a relationship of mutual trust or affinity |
| Adage | a wise old saying |
| Poignant | profoundly moving; touching |
| Abstruse | hard to understand |
| Arduous | difficult; strenuous |
| Futile | serving no useful purpose |
| Heinous | hatefully evil; abominable |
| Impede | to slow the progress of; to interfere with |
| Impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated; inaccessible |
| Dilatory | tending to cause delay |
| Enervate | to weaken the strength or vitality of |
| Indolent | lazy |
| Listless | lacking energy |
| Sedentary | not migratory; involving much sitting; settled |
| Soporific | causing sleep or sleepiness |
| Stupor | a state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
| Torpor | laziness; inactivity; dullness |
| Paucity | an extreme lack of |
| Ebullience | lively or enthusiastic expression |
| Farce | a ridiculous or empty show |
| Frenetic | frenzied or crazed |
| Garrulous | given to excessive, rambling talk |
| Gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
| Insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging |
| Ponderous | of great weight; dull |
| Sonorous | having or producing sound; imposing or impressing |
| Squalor | a filthy condition or quality |
| Superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
| Specious | having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually being false |
| Slander | false charges and malicious oral statements or reports about someone |
| Ruse | a crafty trick |
| Egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
| Facetious | playfully humorous |
| Pander | to cater to the tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses |
| Propriety | appropriateness of behavior |
| Wry | dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony |
| Lampoon | (n) a broad satirical place (v) to broadly satire |
| Parody | an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect |
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