SAT WEEK 5
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51 terms
Italian | English |
|---|---|
 brevity | briefness, Shortness of duration. |
| expedient | convenient;speedy, adj. Contributing to personal advantage. |
| transient | passing quickly in time or space |
| augment | to make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity; to supplement |
| bolster | to hearten, support or prop up |
| burgeon | to grow and flourish, |
| copious | plentiful;having a large quantity |
| distend | to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when full or overly full |
| grandiose | great in scope or intent;grand, impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur |
| prodigious | enormous |
| profundity | great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning |
| redouble | to make twice as great; to double |
| scintillating | brilliant, having brief brilliant points or flashes of light |
| averse | strongly disinclined, Reluctant. |
| conspicuous | easy to notice, obvious, obvious to the eye or mind |
| demure | modest and reserved |
| diffidence | timidity and shyness, lack of self-confidence |
| docile | submissive to instruction; willing to be taught |
| innocuous | having no adverse effect;harmless |
| placid | calm or quiet;undisturbed, not easily irritated |
| quiescent | quiet, still, or at rest; inactive, Being quiet, still, or at rest; inactive. |
| concord | agreement |
| concur | to agree |
| dogmatic | stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven beliefs |
| fastidious | carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please |
| intransigence | in TRAN zi jents: refusal to moderate a position or to compromise |
| jocular | characterized by or given to joking, Inclined to joke. |
| meticulous | extremely careful and percise |
| affable | easygoing;friendly |
| alacrity | promptness in response;cheerful readiness;eagerness , cheerful promptness without reluctance |
| amiable | friendly;agreeable;good-natured |
| benign | kind and gentle, not dangerous to health |
| sanguine | cheerfully confident;optimistic |
| belligerent | eager to fight;hostile or aggressive |
| byzantine | extremely complicated or devious;, highly involved or intricate |
| cantankerous | ill-tempered and quarrelsome;disagreeable |
| contentious | quarrelsome |
| deleterious | having a harmful effect |
| exacerbate | to increase in severity, violence, or bitterness of;, worsen; aggravate; embitter |
| flippant | disrespectfully humorous or casual, lacking proper seriousness |
| insolent | insulting in manner or speech |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked;vicious, wicked in the extreme. |
| pernicious | extremely harmful;deadly, Tending to kill or hurt. |
| rancorous | marked by bitter, deep-seated ill-will,, hateful |
| repugnant | arousing disgust or aversion;offensive or repulsive, Offensive to taste and feeling. |
| tawdry | gaudy and cheap, tastelessly showy |
| arboreal | relating to or resembling a tree or trees |
| invocation | a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration, the act of appealing for help |
| stratify | to layer or separate into layers, form, arrange, or deposit in layers |
| variegated | having streaks, marks or patches of different colors, marked with different colors in spots or streaks |
| verdant | green with vegetation |
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