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SAT Vocab Dum 12
SAT Vocabulary for Dummies - Chapter 12
Question | Answer |
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aberration | a departure or deviation from the norm |
abjure | to give up, renounce |
abstemious | moderate, temperate, especially in eating and drinking |
acme | the highest point, the peak |
adjure | to command solemnly, often under oath; to entreat or appeal to |
Brobdingnagian | a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall |
candor | fairness, honesty, or frankness |
coeval | all of the same age or period, contemporary |
hackneyed | overused or trite |
halcyon | happy, tranquil, or idyllic |
inundate | to flood or deluge; to overwhelm with a great amount of anything |
noisome | having a bad odor, foul-smelling, injurious to the health, harmful |
noxious | injurious, harmful to the health, or unwholesome |
peregrinate | to travel or walk |
perfunctory | done merely as form or routine; superficial |
prolific | fruitful, abounding,producing many/much |
salubrious | healthful, wholesome |
serendipity | luck or good fortune, especially in finding something accidentally |
superfluous | surplus, excessive |
turpitude | vileness, depravity |