SAT Prep Vocab Lesson 3
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| evanescent (adj) |  tending to fade from sight; vanishing |
| exacerbate (v) | to make more intense or sharp; aggravate (disease, pain, annoyance, etc.) |
| exemplary (adj) | serving as a model or example; worth imitating |
| exemplify (v) | to show by example; to serve as an example |
| exorbitant (adj) | going beyond what is reasonable, just, proper, usual, etc.; excessive |
| expedite (v) | to speed up or make easy the progress or action of |
| expeditious (adj) | efficient and speedy; prompt |
| extemporaneous (adj) | made, done, or spoken without preparation; spoken with some preparation but not written out or memorized |
| extraneous (adj) | having no essential relation to a subject; irrelevant |
| facilitate (v) | to make more easy |
| facetious (adj) | joking or trying to be humorous at an inappropriate time |
| fallacious (adj) | containing a fallacy; erroneous; misleading or deceptive |
| fallacy (n) | a false or mistake idea, opinion, etc.; error; and error in reasoning; flaw or defect in argument |
| feasible (adj) | that which may be done, performed, of effected |
| felicity (n) | a state of happiness |
| galvanize (v) | to stimulate as if by electric shock; startle; excite to imbue with life or animation |
| gamut (n) | the whole range or sequence |
| garner (v) | to get or earn |
| garrulous (adj) | given to talking too much, esp. about unimportant things |
| germane (adj) | relevant |
| gesticulate (v) | to make or use gestures, as in speaking, or in place of speech |
| grandiloquent (adj) | using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions |
| gratuitous (adj) | without cause or justification; uncalled for |
| gregarious (adj) | fond of the company of others; sociable |
| guile (n) | slyness and cunning; craftiness |
| hackneyed (adj) | made trite and commonplace by overuse |
| harangue (n) | a long, blustering, noisy, or scolding speech; a tirade |
| harbinger (n) | a person or thing that comes before to announce or give an indication of what follows |
| hibernal (adj) | pertaining to winter |
| hindrance (n) | an obstacle |
| hypocrisy (n) | a pretending to be what one is not, or feel what one does not feel; esp. a pretense of virtue |
| hypocritical (adj) | practicing hypocrisy |
| iconoclast (n) | anyone who attacks or ridicules traditional or venerated institutions or ideas regarded by him as erroneous or based on superstition; an image-breaker |
| idiosyncrasy (n) | a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual; a personal peculiarity |
| ignoble (adj) | low in character or purpose |
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