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SAT WORDS 3
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ebullient | extremely lively, enthusiastic (she became ebullient upon receiving an acceptance letter from her first college choice) |
| Effrontery | impudence, nerve, insolence (when I told my aunt that she was boring, my mother scolded me for my effrontery ) |
| Effulgent | radiant, splendorous (the golden palace was effulgent) |
| Enervate | to weaken,exhaust (writing these SAT vocab words and their meanings enervates me so much that I will have to take a nap after I finish ) |
| Egregious | extremely bad (the students who threw sloppy joes across the cafeteria were punished for their egregious behavior) |
| Ephemeral | short-lived, fleeting (she promised to love me forever but her "forever" was only ephemeral; she left me after one week) |
| Eschew | to shun, avoid (George hates the color green so much that he eschews all green food) |
| Evanescent | fleeting, momentary (my joy at getting promoted was evanescent because because I discovered that i would have to work much longer hours in a less friendly office) |
| Evince | to show, reveal ( Jeff's nail biting evinces how nervous he is about the upcoming SAT test) |
| Exculpate | to free from guilt or blame, exonerate (my discovery of the ring behind the dresser exculpated me from the charge of having stolen it) |
| Execrable | loathsome, detestable (her pudding is so execrable that it makes me sick) |
| Exigent | urgent, critical (the patient is in exigent need medication, or else he will lose his sight) |
| Expiate | to make amends for, atone (to expiate my selfishness, I gave all my profits to charity) |
| Expunge | to obliterate, eradicate (fearful of an IRS investigation, Paul expunged all incriminating evidence from his tax files) |
| Extant | existing, not destroyed or lost (my mother's extant love letters to my father are in the attic) |
| Extol | to praise, revere (Violet extolled the virtues of a vegetarian diet to his meat loving brother) |
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