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SAT Vocab
Lesson 7
Term | Definition |
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Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic (sanguis blood) |
Phlegmatic | sluggish |
Melancholy | sad, depressed (melan- black + choler bile) |
Choleric | easily angered (choler- bile + -ic characterized by) |
Recalcitrant | stubbornly resistant to authority (re- back + calcitrare kick) |
Lethargic | sluggish; dully apathetic |
Splenetic | irritable; easily angered (splen- spleen) |
Querulous | disposed to complaining |
Dolorous | marked by or expressive of sorrow or pain (dolor- pain) |
Animosity | hostility; ill-will (animosus bold) |
Pusillanimous | cowardly (pusillus- weak + anima spirit) |
Lassitude | feeling of weakness of listlessness |