Elite 2012 SAT Vocabulary Set B 226-250
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stamina | resistance to fatigue or hardship; endurance |
| mendicant | a beggar; one who depends on charity for support |
| scour | to wash by scrubbing vigorously |
| amorous | feeling strong attraction, esp. sexual |
| refractory | stubbornly resistant to control, authority, or treatment |
| parvenu | someone reccently risen to a higher social class and not yet accepted by others in that class, often because of lack of manners |
| stoic | apparently indifferent to joy, grieft, pleasure, or pain |
| abolish | to put to an end to |
| maim | to cripple to mutilate; to disable |
| fiasco | a major disaster |
| nemesis | one who inflicts justified or great punishment; a source of harm or ruin |
| nonplus | to put at a loss what to do or think |
| parsimony | excessive care in spending; stinginess |
| implicit | not plainly stated |
| agitate | to move violently; to disturb |
| aesthetic | relating to beauty |
| indifferent | uncaring; showing no bias or preference |
| manumit | to grant freedom to slaves; to emancipate |
| cynical | distrusting others from a sense that everyone's motives are selfish |
| animosity | bitter hostility, esp. that which provokes punitive action |
| amiable | friendly and agreeable; sociable |
| emigration | departure from one country for another |
| paucity | smallness of number; scarcity |
| disgruntled | discontented; displeased |
| commence | to begin |
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