SAT wordsmart 5
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39 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 extraneous | irrelevant, extra, unnecessary, unimportant |
| tedious | boring |
| caustic | like acid; corrosive |
| inadvertent | lax; careless; without intention |
| exhaustive | thorough; complete |
| incongruous | not harmonious ; not consistent ; not appropriate |
| belittle | to make to seem little |
| unprecedented | happening for the first time; novel; never seen before |
| digress | to go off the subject |
| appease | to soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| frivolous | not serious; not solemn; with levity |
| instigate | to provoke, to stir up |
| sage | wise; possessing wisdom derived from experience or learning |
| predecessor | someone or something that came before another |
| jeopardy | danger |
| tangible | touchable; palpable |
| indulgent | lenient; yielding to desire |
| remorse | sadness; regret |
| pivotal | crucial |
| scrupulous | strict; careful; hesitant for ethical reasons |
| refute | disprove; to prove to be false |
| respite | a rest; a period of relief |
| stoic | indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, to joy or grief, to fortune or misfortune |
| volatile | quick to evaporate; highly unstable; explosive |
| peripheral | unimportant |
| hedonistic | pleasure-seeking; indulgent |
| idiom | a peculiar expression |
| benefactor | a generous donor |
| brevity | briefness |
| apocryphal | of doubtful origin; false |
| virtuoso | a masterful musician; a masterful practitioner in some other field |
| slander | to defame; to speak maliciously of someone |
| animosity | resentment; hostility; ill will |
| deplete | to use up; to reduce; to lessen |
| amity | friendship |
| am | love |
| apo | away |
| ced/ceed/cess | to go, to yield, to stop |
| vers/vert | to turn |
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