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Words I will know 07
SAT-level vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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galore | in a abundance; in plentiful amounts |
cachinnate (v) [cac kuh nate] | to laugh loudly or immoderately |
fallacy (n) | an error in fact or logic |
bilocation (n) | the state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time |
incorrigible (adj) | impossible to manage to reform |
anacoluthia (n) | lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence |
kith (n) | acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like |
fulcrum | prop or support |
couchant (adj) | lying down; crouching; reclining |
impute (v) | to credit or give responsibility to; to attribute |
schlep (v) | to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously |
orthoepy [awr | thoh |
lupine (adj) | savage; ravenous; predatory |
languid (adj.) | without energy; slow; sluggish; listless |
virulence | poisonousness; malignancy |
gormandize (v) | to eat greedily or ravenously |
upbraided | scold |
surly | irritable |
perfunctory¬ | routine |
contrived | unnatural |
insolent | marked by casual disrespect |
jargon | unintelligible language |
foudroyant (adj) | sudden and overwhelming in effect |
intrepid | fearless and resolute |
ruction | a disturbance, quarrel, or row |
strenuous (adj) | requiring energy and strength |
succumb | consent reluctantly |
incunabulum (n) | earliest stages or first traces of anything |
liminal (adj) | of or relating to a sensory threshold |
predilection | an established preference for something |
premorse | pertaining to the end of something irregularly shortened, as if bitten or broken off |
stultiloquy | foolish talk; silly discourse; babbling |
rhapsodize (v) | to talk with extravagant enthusiasm |
koan (n) | a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating |
visage | the human face; appearance of the face |
divulge (v) | to reveal |
fantod (n) | a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness |