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SAT Third Quarter
7th
Term | Definition |
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Adroit | skillful in physical activity or in handling difficult situations. |
Advocate | support; plead for; speak on behalf of. |
Appease | To calm, pacify |
Banal | boring; trite; insipid |
Blight | decay; disease; widespread death. |
Capacious | large; roomy; spacious |
Conundrum | riddle; mystery |
Converge | move together to meet at a common point |
Deference | the act of yielding to someone else out of respect |
Efficacy | the ability to produce desired results. |
Elated | extremely happy; overjoyed |
Ephemeral | temporary; short-lived |
Foment | to stir into action; rouse; incite |
Foresight | the ability to see ahead, anticipate, or predict |
Genial | friendly; gracious; kind |
Harbor | to provide shelter or refuge; hide |
Hardy | bold; brave; capable of withstanding harsh conditions |
Incessant | continuous, endless |
Irascible | easily angered |
Irony | an unexpected outcome or the use of a word that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
Latent | existing but inactive, such as a certain quality; dormant |
Malleable | able to be reshaped by force; pliable; impressionable |
Mitigate | make less severe; mollify |
Opportunist | someone who takes advantage of the situation |
Pecuniary | having to do with money; financial |
Prodigial | wasteful, especially of money; extravagant |
Quarantine | forced isolation to prevent the spread of disease |
Seditious | trying to stir up a revolt against an authority figure |
Tenacious | strong; persistent; determined to hold on |
Vestige | something left behind; a visible trace or evidence of something that has vanished |
Wizened | old and wrinkled; withered |