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Marino Mission CHP12
SAT vocab from chapter twelve
Question | Answer |
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auspicious | affording a favorable auspice (a favorable sign) |
ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse |
eradicate | to do away with as if by pulling up from the roots |
enable | to provide with the menas or opportunity |
diffident | hestitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence |
novice | beginner |
relish | a strong liking |
exemplary | deserving imitation because of excellence commendable |
precipitate | to cause to separate from solution or suspension |
requisite | essentail, necessary |
congeal | to change from a fluid state to a solid state |
palpable | easily perceptible |
homogenize | to blend (diverse elements) into a uniform mixture |
viscous | having or characterized by viscosity (the property of resistance to flow in a fluid or simifluid); a thick liquid |
thwart | to oppose successfully, to defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
debacle | a great disaster; fiasco |
conunrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
rueful | mournful, regretful |
condescending | to assume an air of superiority |
gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
prowess | extraordinary ability |
elude | to escape the perception, understanding, or grasp of |
detract | to diminish the importance, value, or effectiveness of something |
default | a course taken without an active choice |
obtuse | lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect |
jubilation | an expression of great joy |
diversion | theact or an instance of diverting from a course, activity, or use; deviation |
uncensored | not examine for the purpose of deleting objectional or sensitive information; unedited |
disparate | containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements |
concur | to express agreement |