Princeton Review IV
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48 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ingenuous | lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness |
| subterfuge | a deceptive stratagem or device |
| surreptitious | secretive; sneaky |
| dearth | scarce supply; lack |
| modicum | a small, moderate, or token amount |
| paucity | smallness in number; scarcity |
| squander | to spend wastefully |
| temperate | moderate; restrained |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; shaky |
| diligent | marked by painstaking effort; hard-working |
| maverick | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
| mercenary | motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain |
| obstinate | stubbornly attached to an opinion or a course of action |
| proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly |
| tenacity | persistence |
| vigilant | on the alert; watchful |
| extraneous | irrelevant; inessential |
| juxtapose | to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
| superfluous | extra; unnecessary |
| synergy | combined action or operation |
| tangential | merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant |
| aesthetic | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
| aural | of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing |
| cacophony | discordant, unpleasant noise |
| dirge | a funeral hymn or lament |
| eclectic | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
| incongruous | lacking in harmony; incompatible |
| sonorous | producing a deep or full sound |
| strident | loud, harsh, grating, or shrill |
| debacle | disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco |
| debilitate | impair the strength of; weaken |
| tumultuous | noisy and disorderly |
| anachronistic | the representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period |
| archaic | characteristic of an earlier time; antiquated; old |
| dilatory | habitually late |
| ephemeral | lasting for only a brief time |
| redolent | fragrant; aromatic; suggestive |
| temporal | of, relating to, or limited by time |
| onerous | troublesome or oppressive; burdensome |
| portent | indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen |
| prescience | knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight |
| austere | without decoration; strict |
| banal | drearily commonplace; predictable; trite |
| hackneyed | worn out through overuse; trite |
| insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor |
| prosaic | unimaginative; dull |
| soporific | inducing or tending to induce sleep |
| vapid | lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull |
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