click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
SATvocab 26-50
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
---|---|
conformist | some who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) |
conundrum | a difficult problem |
convergence | the act of converging (coming closer) |
deleterious | harmful to living things |
demagogue | a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices |
digression | a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) |
diligent | quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness |
digression | the state of being held in low esteem |
disdain | lack of respect accompained by a feeling of intense dislike |
divergent | tending to move apart in different directions |
empathy | understanding and entering into another's feelings |
emulate | strive to equal or match, especially by imitating |
enervating | causing debilition |
ephemeral | anything short-lived, as in insect that lives only for a day in its winged form |
evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
exemplary | worthy of imitation |
extenuating | partially excusing or justifying |
florid | elaborately or excessively ornamented |
forberance | a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting |
firtude | strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage |
fortuitous | occurring by happy chance |
foster | providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties |
fraught | filled with or attended with |
frugal | avoding waste |
hackneyed | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse |