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SAT Vocab Dum 14
SAT Vocabulary for Dummies - Chapter 14
Question | Answer |
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affable | friendly, pleasant, and easy to talk to |
corroborating | confirming, bolstering, supporting |
dissertation | a formal and lengthy treatise on a subject |
erstwhile | former |
hiatus | a break or a gap |
irony | a circumstance that's the opposite of what may be expected |
lobbyist | a person acting for a special interest who tries to influence decisions |
pragmatic | practical |
proffer | offer |
promulgate | to publish or make known officially |
protocol | the code of ceremonial forms and courtesies accepted as proper for dealings between officials |
punctiliously | careful about every detail of behavior; exact |