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SAT 3
Term | Definition |
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lugubrious | mournful to a ludicrous degree |
penchant | strong liking |
vignette | short story |
amalgam | mixture |
multifarious | diverse |
ameliorate | improve |
curative | healing |
palliative | relieving symptoms of a disease |
complement | addition |
felicitous | suitable |
duplicitous | deceptive |
fallacy | false notion |
mendacious | untruthful |
specious | misleading |
ambivalent | conflicting |
capricious | arbitrary |
equivocal | ambiguous |
impetuous | impulsive |
impetus | stimulus |
vacillate | go back and forth |
whimsical | unpredictable |
flag | to droop |
jaded | worn out |
ingenuous | naive |
subterfuge | deception |
dearth | lack |
modicum | small amount |
paucity | scarcity |
tenuous | shaky |
maverick | radical |
synergy | combined action |
tangential | digressing |
aural | related to hearing |
cacophony | unpleasant noise |
dirge | funeral hymn |
eclectic | comprehensive |
sonorous | deep sound |
strident | shrill |
debacle | disastrous |
debilitate | weaken |
anachronistic | chronological error |
archaic | old |
dilatory | habitually late |
ephemeral | temporary |
redolent | aromatic |
onerous | burdensome |
portent | omen |
prescience | foreknowledge |
insipid | uninteresting |
prosaic | dull |
soporific | sleep inducing |
vapid | lacking liveliness |