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Princeton Review Voc
SAT prep
Question | Answer |
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candid | completely honest; straightforward |
conjecture | inference; guesswork |
didactic | instructive |
euphemism | a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term |
extrapolate | to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information |
incoherent | lacking cohesion or connection |
insinuate | to imply or communicate stealthily |
lucid | easily understood; clear |
rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
acumen | quickneess, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight |
adroit | dexteroius; deft |
ascertain | to find out, as through investigation of experimentation |
astute | shrewd; clever |
circumspect | careful; prudent; discreet |
disseminate | to scatter widely, as in sowing seed |
erudition | deep, extensive learning |
husbandry | the application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding |
pedantic | extensively concerned with book learning and formal rules |
perspicacious | shrewd; clear-sighted |
pragmatic | practical |
precocious | exhibiting unusually early intellectual apitiude or maturity |
prospectus | formal proposal |
rudimentary | basic; elementary; in the earliest stages of development |