English 3 SAT word 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alacrity | N. Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: |
| Altruism | N. The principle or practiced of unselfish concern for a devotion to the welfare of others. |
| Blithe | Adj. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad, cheerful. |
| Commensurate | Having the same measure of equal extent or duration corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree |
| Conundrum | N. A riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white all over? A newspaper. |
| Deleterious | Adj. Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way/ deleterious effects/deleterious to health/harmful injurios. |
| Deprecate | V. To express earnest disapproval of to urge reasons against; protest against, to depreciate belittle. |
| Enervate | V. To deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
| Facetious | Adj. Meant to be humorous or funny; not serious lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing or frivolous |
| Inherent | Adj: existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute: an inherent distrust of strangers. |
| Tenuous | Adj. Lacking a sound basis, as reasoning: unsubstantiated; weak; |
| ubiquitous | Adj. existing or being everywhere, esp at the same time; omnipresent |
| Zealot | N. Fanatic, an extremist |
| Loquacious | adj. talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; blabbling; garrulous |
| Maxim | N. An expression of a general truth or principle, esp, an aphoristic or sententious one |
| Nefarious | Adj. Extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous |
| Obsequious | Adj. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning |
| Philistine | Adj. a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| Pulchritude | N. Physical beauty; comeliness |
| Rancor | N. Bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice |
| Ribald | Adj: vulgar or indecent in speech, language; constantly mocking, abusive, or irrelevant. |
| Scurrilous | Adj. Grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor. |
| Stilted | Adj. stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous |
| Transitory | Lasing only a short time; short lived; temporary |
| Vernacular | N. the native speech or language of place//the plain variety of language in everyday use by ordinary people. |
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