PSAT Lesson 7
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abhor | to regard with extreme repungence; to detest utterly; to loathe. |
| Accolade | praise, an award. |
| Ascetic | one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury. |
| Bequeth | to hand down, to give or to leave in a will. |
| Charlatan | one who claims to know something he does not, a quack. |
| Conflagration | A large fire.; |
| Dearth | a lack, a scarcity. |
| Diffidence | Shyness, reserve, unassertiveness; |
| Effervescent | showing high spirits; |
| Ethereal | heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible; |
| Expunge | to remove, to erase. |
| Guile | deceitfulness, duplicity. |
| Implausible | not believable. |
| Incongruity | Noncomformity, disagreement, incompatibility. |
| Insularity | qualities of an island; narow-mindedness of opinion. |
| Morose | being sullen or gloomy; |
| Placate | To appease or to pacify by making concessions; |
| Poignant | piercing, incisive, and keen; |
| Provincial | lacking sophistication, narrow-minded; |
| Reiterate | to repeat; |
| Spontaneous | Having no external cause, acting on impulse. |
| Synthesis | combining parts into a whole. |
| Toxic | poisonous. |
| Vigilant | very alert, watchful. |
| Voluble | Ability to use words easily, fluent and glib. |
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