SAT Vocab Week 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 appraisal | the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone |
| aspersion | a damaging or disparaging comment, slander |
| calumny | a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something |
| invective | vehement or violent denunciation or reproach |
| bane | a person or thing that spoils or ruins; a deadly poison |
| scourge | a cause of affliction or calamity |
| boor | rude or unmannerly person |
| by rote | from memory, without thought of the meaning; in a mechanica way |
| celerity | swiftness, speed |
| alacrity | cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness |
| censure | strong or vehement expression of disapproval; an official reprimand, as by a legislative body of one of its members |
| remonstrance | an act of protesting |
| hallow | to make holy, consecrate |
| epicures | a person who cultivated a refined taste especially in food or drink |
| epithet | any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality; a word, phrase, expression used as a term of abuse or contempt, to express hostility |
| ostentatious | pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
| impecunious | having little or no money; penniless, poor |
| impugn | to challenge as false, cast doubt upon; attack a person's words or arguments |
| gainsay | to deny, dispute or contradict |
| infidel | a person with no religious faith; does not accept a particular faith |
| heathen | an unconverted person, an irreligious, uncultured or uncivilized person |
| infringe | to trepass, commit a breach |
| encroach | to advance beyond proper, est, or usual limits; trespass |
| kudos | honor, glory, acclaim |
| accolade | any award, honor |
| mandate | an authoritative order or command |
| fiat | an authoritative decree, sanction, order |
| precept | a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct |
| mote | a small particle especially dust |
| behoove | to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations |
| pragmatist | a person who is oriented toward success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc; a practical person |
| utilitarian | having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty |
| procure | obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means; bring about through unscrupulous or indirect means |
| raconteur | a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, gloomy in an exaggerated manner |
| tabulate | to put in a systematic form, formulate |
| transient | not lasting, enduring, permanent |
| travesty | a literary or artistic composition so inferior in quality as to be merely a grotesque imitation of its model; mock model |
| lampoon | a sharp, often harsh satire mocking an individual or institution |
| vacuous | without contents, empty; lacking in ideas or intelligence |
| pantomime | the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings by gestures without speech |
| philistine | a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes |
| pillage | to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence as in war; plunder |
| despoil | to strip of possessions, things or value; rob, plunder |
| purloin | to steal |
| pinion | wing of a bird |
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