SAT hit parade set 61-80
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Novel | new; original |
| Philanthropy | love of mankind; donating to charity |
| Tentative | experimental; temporary; uncertain |
| Deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
| Vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver back and forth |
| Fervor | Passion |
| Dispassionate | without passion; objective; neutral |
| Pragmatic | practical; down-to-earth; based on experience rather than theory |
| Rigorous | strict; harsh; severe |
| Solemn | serious; grave |
| Alleviate | to lessen; to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable |
| Negligence | carelessness |
| Conspicuous | standing out; obvious |
| Advocate | to speak in favor of; to support |
| Ascetic | hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
| Profound | deep; insightful (the opposite of superficial) |
| Ironic | satiric; unexpected |
| Dogmatic | Arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; arrogantly claiming that something (often a system of beliefs) is beyond dispute |
| Condone | to overlook; to permit to happen |
| Dissent | disagreement |
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