SAT words cliché-jocular
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cuteyxcarolx on May 11, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cliche | (n. adj.) trite word or obvious remark |
| colloquial | (adj.) of or pertaining to speech |
| corrugated | (adj.)to bend into folds or furrows and ridges |
| debilitate | (v.) to make weak or feeble |
| depose | (v.) to testify under oath; to remove from a high position |
| discourse | (n. or v.) communication of thought by words |
| distend | (v.) to extend by stretching |
| effervesce | (v.) to give off bubbles |
| equitable | (adj.) just and impartial |
| evanescent | (adj.) vanishing, fleeting, fading away |
| fallow | (adj.) condition of being unseeded |
| florid | (adj.) flowery or excessively ornate |
| glacial | (adj.) happening very slowly |
| iconoclastic | (adj.) characterized by an attack on established beliefs or institutions |
| indolent | (adj.) averse to exertion, habitually inactive or idle |
| jocular | (adj.) characterized by joking |
| elicit | (v.) to draw out or provoke |
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