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SAT 2015 List 22-24
Hot Words list 22-24
Term | Definition |
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chary | cautious; wary |
circumspect | careful and cautious before acting |
exacting | requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking |
gingerly | very carefully |
heedful | paying careful attention to |
meticulous | very careful; fussy; finicky |
scrupulous | showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper |
wary | cautious, careful |
evanescent | vanishing quickly; fleeting |
fleeting | short-lived |
itinerant | wandering about; tending to move around, travel |
peripatetic | moving or walking about; itinerant |
transient | lasting for only a short time; temporary |
transitory | fleeting |
volatile | explosive or changing very quickly |
antediluvian | very, very old; antiquated |
obsolete | old; outdated, as in no longer in use |
relic | a custom or object that has been around for a very, very long time |
contemporary | modern, new; relating to the same time period |
inception | the start, the beginning of something |
unprecedented | novel; unparalleled |