SAT Vocabulary List 7
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slaterward on January 9, 2013
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SAT Vocabulary List 17 --- Mr. Sanford
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SAT, 8th GT ELAR RMS, English 11 - Sanford
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aspersion | noun: False rumor, damaging report, slander. (calumny) |
| Callous | adjective: Thick-skinned; insensitive; emotionally hardened. |
| Circumlocution | noun: The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; a roundabout expression. (discursive) |
| Clandestine | adjective: Secretive; kept or done in secret; surreptitious. (furtive) |
| Coalesce | verb: To grow together or cause to unite as one; to conjoin. |
| Consanguineous | adjective: Of the same origin; related by blood. |
| Descry | verb: To catch sight of; to detect or perceive. |
| Deviation | noun: Departure from the standard or norm; an exception (anomaly, aberration) |
| Divisive | adjective: Creating disunity or conflict; creating dissension or discord. |
| Egocentric | adjective: Having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things. (narcissistic) |
| Engender | verb: To produce; to cause or create; to bring about. |
| Epilogue | noun: Concluding section of a literary work often dealing with the future of its characters. |
| Epoch | noun: A particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy. |
| Eponymous | adjective: The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named in their honor. |
| Hackneyed | adjective: Worn out by over-use; trite; commonplace (banal) |
| Imperious | adjective: Arrogantly self-assured; domineering; authoritative (autocratic) |
| Impervious | adjective: Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being influence, persuaded, or affected. (impermeable, impregnable, immutable) |
| Impetuous | adjective: Quick to act without thinking; impulsive; characterized by sudden or forceful energy or emotion.(extemporaneous) |
| Inchoate | adjective: Imperfectly formed or formulated; in an initial or early stage. (incipient, embryonic, nascent) |
| Indomitable | adjective: Fearless; incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; invincible. |
| Jingoism | noun: Extreme and aggressive nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy. (bellicosity) |
| Juxtapose | verb: To place side-by-side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
| Kinetic | adjective: Relating to motion; characterized by movement. |
| Kudos | noun: Fame, glory, honor (encomium, homage) |
| Lachrymose | adjective: Tearful; mournful; inclined to weep. (maudlin) |
| Lampoon | noun: A written attack using satire. |
| Laconic | adjective: Using few words. (taciturn) |
| Largess | noun: Generosity of spirit or attitude; giving or kind in nature or character; liberality in bestowing gifts. |
| Lexicon | noun: The entire vocabulary encompassing a nation, a person, a group, a subject, or a language. |
| Loquacious | adjective: Very talkative. (garrulous, voluble) |
| Machination | noun: Act of plotting or scheming. (Chicanery, guile) |
| Maelstrom | noun: A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs; turmoil. |
| Pantheism | noun: The doctrine that God is the transcended reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations. |
| Succor | noun: Help; relief; aid; assistance. |
| Vernacular | adjective: Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language. |
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