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Unit 7-SAT Words
Question | Answer |
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FATHOM (v.) | discern, understand, assimilate, digest, follow |
FETTER (v.) | confine, shackle |
FLAGRANT (adj.) | reprehensible, flaunting, blatant |
GLUTTONY (n.) | greed, excess, craving, bottomless pit |
GRANDIOSE (adj.) | exaggerated, magnificent |
HIATUS (n.) | aperture, break, chasm, discontinuity, gap, interval, lacuna, lapse, opening |
HYPOCRISY (n.) | deceitfulness, pretense |
IMMUTABLE (adj.) | fixed, changeless |
IMPUTE (v.) | accuse, assign blame, charge, indict, insinuate |
INDIGENOUS (adj.) | native, aboriginal |
JOVIAL (adj.) | jolly, blithe |
KNEAD (v.) | blend, manipulate, massage, mold, shape, squeeze, stroke, twist, work |
LIGATURE (n.) | cord, handcuff, linkage, manacle, rope, shackle, tie, wire |
MAUDLIN (adj.) | drippy, loony, mushy, preposterous, silly, slushy |
MUTABLE (adj.) | changeable, susceptible, alterable |
NUNNERY (n.) | cloister, monastery, religious community, retreat |
OBITUARY (n.) | announcement, death notice, eulogy, mortuary tribute |
OSCILLATE (v.) | swing, rock, pace, vacillate |
PALLIATE (v.) | mitigate, alleviate, sugarcoat |
LITIGANT (n.) | defendant, partaker, participant, plaintiff |