Elite 2012 SAT Vocabulary Set A 276-300
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 defray | provide for the payment of |
| formidable | inspiring fear or dread |
| patrician | (n) a person of refined manners or background; a member of the aristocracy (adj) aristocratic |
| fume | to be in a state of anger |
| procrastinate | to delay; to put off |
| yoke | to join together; to unite closely |
| circumscribe | to define the limits of |
| resonant | strong and deep in tone |
| relief | a distinction or prominence due to contrast |
| Machiavellian | practicing deceit or cunning; favoring expediency over moral principle |
| harbor | to give shelter; to entertain or nourish (a specific thought or feeling) |
| havoc | great destruction and devastation |
| premeditate | to think out, plan, or scheme beforehand |
| recumbent | lying down in a position of comfort |
| demean | to disrespect; to lower; to degrade; to ridicule |
| chide | to scold |
| byzantine | highly complicated or intricate; characterized by devious plotting |
| lull | to soothe or calm; to deceive into trustfulness |
| homogeneous | uniform; of the same kind |
| hypothesis | a tentative explanation; something assumed true for the sake of argument or investigation |
| shoal | an area of shallow water |
| satire | irony, sacrasm, or caustic with used to attack human vice or folly, esp. in a literary work |
| goad | (v) to prod or urge, as if with a pointed stick; (n) a long stick used to prod animals; something used to urge on |
| figment | something that is created; something that is imagined |
| centrifugal | moving away from the center |
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