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sat week 11
sat week 11 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| clash | to collide into conflict |
| vacuous | empty |
| vacuity | emptiness |
| rhetoric | art of effective speech or writing |
| dally | to flirt; deal w/ lightly or carelessly |
| philistine | not cultured; rough |
| couth | refined |
| uncouth | not refined |
| boor | rough; ill-mannered person |
| oaf | rough, ill-mannered person |
| boorish | rough ; not cultured |
| deflect | to avoid criticism |
| skirt | to avoid something difficult |
| shirk | to avoid duty |
| malinger | pretend to be ill to avoid duty |
| parry | to avoid a blow |
| evade | to avoid a question, tax, draft, etc |
| eschew | avoid something for a physical or moral reason |
| shun | avoid something for physical or moral reason |
| stepside | to avoid |
| avert | to turn aside |
| ineffable | too great to be described in words |
| delineate | to describe |
| depict | to describe |
| portray | to describe |
| consummate | supremely skilled |
| presumptive | having reasonable ground for belief |
| humility | modesty |
| demureness | modesty |
| self-effacement | modesty |
| smug | self-satisfied |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| smug | narrowly contented with one's own belief, accomplishment, morality, etc |
| legitimate | justify; legally recognized |
| folkway | any way of thinking, feeling, behaving, etc |
| mores | custom |
| rigid | firm; resisting change |
| idiosyncrasy | personal mannerism or peculiarity |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar |
| regress | to move backward |
| devoid | without; empty of |
| veer | to change direction |
| temporize | to give temporary decision or agreement; avoid immediate decision to gain more time |
| disparage | to look down |
| belittle | to look down |
| condescend | to look down |
| sneer | to smile derisively |
| derisive | ridiculing |
| derision | ridicule |
| ramble | to talk or walk aimlessly |
| petulant | easily irritated; irritable |
| judicious | having a keen judgment |
| indict | to accuse |
| indictment | accusation |
| sever | to cut |
| deride | to make fun of; ridicule |
| scoff | to make fun of; ridicule |
| scorn | to make fun of; ridicule |
| gibe | to make fun of; ridicule |
| mock | to make fun of; ridicule |
| jeer | to make fun of; ridicule |
| polarize | to separate into two extremes |
| holistic | dealing with whole or integrated system rather than with their parts |
| censure | to criticize; to punish |
| reprove | to scold |
| reproof | scolding |
| reprehensible | blameworthy |
| equitable | fair;just |
| treacle | anything very sweet |
| treacly | sweet |
| waylay | to stop someone in order to rob the person |
| accost | approach to a stranger abruptly |
| rebuke | to scold, blame, warn |
| admonish | to scold, blame, warn |
| berate | to scold, blame, warn |
| chide | to scold, blame, warn |
| rail | to scold, blame, warn |
| censure | to scold, blame, warn |
| castigate | to punish severely |
| chastise | to punish severely |
| chasten | to punish severely |
| sever | to cut |
| lacerate | to cut |
| curtail | to cut |
| prune | to cut |
| shear | to cut |
| incise | to cut |
| excise | to cut |
| trim | to cut |
| truncate | to cut |
| retrench | to cut |
| retrench | to cut length, expense, etc |
| usurp | to rob; to steal |
| despoil | to rob; to steal |
| plunder | to rob; to steal |
| pillage | to rob; to steal |
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