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SaT's Important #3
SaT's Most IMportant Words #3
Question | Answer |
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solicitousness | expressing to much care or concern |
unwitting | unintentional |
amenable, yielding | Giving way |
aspire | strive for |
assiduous | diligent |
assuage | relieve, appease |
compliant | yielding |
dauntless | courageous |
debacle | failure |
debilitated | weakened |
debunk | prove wrong |
deference, deferential | respectful submission, yielding |
deterrent | hindrance, impediment |
disheartening | discouraging |
dispel | to disapprove |
disquieting | causing anxiety |
facile | superficial, effortless |
futile | hopeless |
gallantry | courageous |
impasse | obstacle |
indomitable | to strong to be defeated |
intrepid | courageous |
onerous | difficult, trying |
servile | submissive, subservient |
steadfast | not yielding |
subservient | yielding |
tenacious, tenacity | stubborn, determined |
tenuous | insignificant, flimsy |
tribulation | suffering |
vying | striving to beat your opponent |
acumen | wise |
adept | skillful |
adroit | skillful |
anthropology | study of human beings |
boorish, boorishness | a rude person |
cerebral | intellectual |
churlish | vulgar, boorish |
conscientious | careful, trying to do the right thing |
cosmopolitan | sophisticated, urbane, polite |
credulity, credulous | caring about something to much |
didactic | excessively wanting to teach |
discern, discerning | perceive, recognize |
epiphany | sudden realization |
erudite, erudition | scholarly |
esoteric | understood only by a few words |
fastidious | careful |
finesse | tact, elegant skill |
flummox | confuse |
folly | foolishness |
foolhardy | recklessly daring |
grandiose | pompous, pretentious |
inane | senseless, stupid |
ineptitude | incompetence |
ingenuous | unsophisticated, naive |
lithe | graceful, supple |
neophyte | beginner |
oversight | mistake |
painstaking | careful |
pedant, pedantic, pedantry | a person who makes a great show of their knowledge |
precocious | talented beyond someones age |
provincial | narrow-minded, unsophisticated |
punctilious | meticulous, attentive to detail |
pundit | a knowledgeable commentator |
quixotic | foolish |
sage | wise |