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SAT Prep
Vocab Words #3
Question | Answer |
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Disparage | usually in a somewhat indirect way |
Ephemeral | short lived |
Compliant | yielding |
Prosaic | dull |
Profuse | flowing |
Expedient | providing an immediate advantage |
Fastidious | demanding |
Belligerent | waging war |
Astute | intelligent |
Languish | to become weak |
Censure | to condemn severely for doing something bad |
Stagnation | inactivity |
Mitigate | to lessen the severity of something |
Reprehensible | worthy of blame or censure |
Engender | to create |
Exemplary | outstanding |
Neutral | unbiased |
Relegate | to banish |
Anecdote | a brief |
Scanty | inadequate |
Fallacious | false |
Acclaim | praise |
Uniform | consistent |
Incoherent | jumbled; chaotic |
Repress | to hold down |
Articulate | speaking clearly and well |
Solicit | to ask for |
Reproach | to scold |
Condescend | to stoop to someone else's level |
Orthodox | conventional |
Indolence | laziness |
Congenial | agreeably suitable |
Preclude | to prevent |
Apprehensive | worried; anxious |
Elaborate | thorough |
Arrogant | feeling superior to others |
Elusive | hard to pin down |
Efface | to erase |
Taciturn | untalkative by nature |
Ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
Acquiesce | to give in |
Atrophy | to waste away from lack of use |
Dubious | doubtful |
Flagrant | shocking |
Concise | brief and to the point |