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SAT vocab num2
Question | Answer |
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provocative | exciting; attracting attention |
dispassionate | without passion; objective; neutral |
fervor | passion |
depravity | moral corruption |
banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
infamous | shamefully wicked; having (and deserving) an extremely bad reputation; disgraceful |
euphony | a pleasant sound |
deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
novel | new, original |
deride | to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
expedite | to make faster or easier |
tentative | experimental; temporary; uncertain |
austere | unadorned; stern; forbidding; without much money |
redundant | repetitive; unnecessary; excessively wordy |
insipid | dull; banal |
vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver back and forth |
heresy | an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs |
gravity | seriousness |
philanthropy | love of mankind; donating to charity |
extol | to praise |