SSAT ASC List 4Db
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applemint2368 on June 30, 2010
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 extremity | the farthest or outermost part |
| facility | ease of doing, moving, or acting through aptitud or skill |
| flagrant | openly and offensvely bad, wrong, or scandalous; outrageous |
| fluent | spoken r written easily; able to speak or write smoothly and effortlessly; flowing smoothly |
| foretell | to tell in advance; to predict the future |
| fragmentary | consisting of small disconnected parts; incomplete |
| irrelevant | not having any connection with the matter at hand; beside the point |
| lackey | a person who takes or follows ordedrs in the manner of a servant |
| lament | to express grief or sorrow (n.) an expression of grief or sorrow |
| latitude | the angular distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees; freedom from tight restrictions |
| maneuver | a skillful, clever, or cunning move or procedure; scheme |
| megaphone | a cone-shaped horn used ot increase the volume of the voice |
| monologue | a long speech made by one person; a literary or dramatic composition performed by one speaker |
| odyssey | any journey filled with wandering |
| pedagogue | a teacher, an educator who is authoritative in a showy way |
| porous | full of pores or tiny holes |
| probe | to investigate, explore, or examine throughly |
| prompt | to encourage, urge, or inspire to action |
| proportion | the relationship in size, amount or degree of one thing to another |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language |
| pun | a humorous play on owords using the similarity of the sounds |
| retrogression | the act or process of returning to a worse or less advanced stage |
| sociology | the scientific study of human social behavior and its history, organizations, and institutions |
| unpretentious | modest; simple; pain |
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