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Cy Fair SAT 17
Term | Definition |
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abate | dwindle; ebb; reduce; wane |
contempt | scorn; dislike |
cosmopolitan | worldly; urbane |
elicit | bring out a response; to evoke; educe |
felicitous | delightful, happy |
interminable | perpetual; everlasting |
jolity | merriment; hilarity; mirth |
odious | deserving hate or contempt; repugnant |
parody | caricature; travesty |
parsimony | stinginess; frugality |
penury | extreme poverty; indigence; destitution |
platitude | trite remark; banal statement; cliche; hackneyed |
pliable | easily manipulated; malleable |
profligate | a wasteful person; prodigal |
pugnacious | looking for a fight; belligerent |
stealthy | furtive; underhanded; suueptitious |
supercilious | haughty; insolent; arrogant |
vociferous | boisterous; clamorous; obstreperous |
voluminous | marked by great volume or size; capacious |
vulgarity | coarseness; grossness |