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SAT Words 66

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transient (adj.) passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence (Because virtually everyone in Palm Beach is a tourist, the population of the town is quite _____.)
transmute (v.) to change or alter in form (Ancient alchemists believed that it was possible to _____ lead into gold.)
travesty (n.) a grossly inferior imitation (According to the school newspaper’s merciless theater critic, Pacific Coast High’s rendition of the musical Oklahoma was a _____ of the original.)
tremulous (adj.) fearful (I always feel a trifle _____ when walking through a graveyard.)
trenchant (adj.) effective, articulate, clear-cut (The directions that accompanied my new cell phone were _____ and easy to follow.)
trepidation (n.) fear, apprehension (Feeling great _____, Anya refused to jump into the pool because she thought she saw a shark in it.)
trite (adj.) not original, overused (Keith thought of himself as being very learned, but everyone else thought he was _____ because his observations about the world were always the same as David Letterman’s.)
truculent (adj.) ready to fight, cruel (This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous types, so why was that bouncer being so _____?)
truncate (v.) to shorten by cutting off (After winning the derby, the jockey _____d the long speech he had planned and thanked only his mom and his horse.)
turgid (adj.) swollen, excessively embellished in style or language (The haughty writer did not realize how we all really felt about his _____ prose.)
turpitude (n.) depravity, moral corruption (Sir Marcus’s chivalry often contrasted with the _____ he exhibited with the ladies at the tavern.)
ubiquitous (adj.) existing everywhere, widespread (It seems that everyone in the United States has a television. The technology is _____ here.)
umbrage (n.) resentment, offense (He called me a lily-livered coward, and I took _____ at the insult.)
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