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SaT's Important #3
SaT's Most IMportant Words #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| solicitousness | expressing to much care or concern |
| unwitting | unintentional |
| amenable, yielding | Giving way |
| aspire | strive for |
| assiduous | diligent |
| assuage | relieve, appease |
| compliant | yielding |
| dauntless | courageous |
| debacle | failure |
| debilitated | weakened |
| debunk | prove wrong |
| deference, deferential | respectful submission, yielding |
| deterrent | hindrance, impediment |
| disheartening | discouraging |
| dispel | to disapprove |
| disquieting | causing anxiety |
| facile | superficial, effortless |
| futile | hopeless |
| gallantry | courageous |
| impasse | obstacle |
| indomitable | to strong to be defeated |
| intrepid | courageous |
| onerous | difficult, trying |
| servile | submissive, subservient |
| steadfast | not yielding |
| subservient | yielding |
| tenacious, tenacity | stubborn, determined |
| tenuous | insignificant, flimsy |
| tribulation | suffering |
| vying | striving to beat your opponent |
| acumen | wise |
| adept | skillful |
| adroit | skillful |
| anthropology | study of human beings |
| boorish, boorishness | a rude person |
| cerebral | intellectual |
| churlish | vulgar, boorish |
| conscientious | careful, trying to do the right thing |
| cosmopolitan | sophisticated, urbane, polite |
| credulity, credulous | caring about something to much |
| didactic | excessively wanting to teach |
| discern, discerning | perceive, recognize |
| epiphany | sudden realization |
| erudite, erudition | scholarly |
| esoteric | understood only by a few words |
| fastidious | careful |
| finesse | tact, elegant skill |
| flummox | confuse |
| folly | foolishness |
| foolhardy | recklessly daring |
| grandiose | pompous, pretentious |
| inane | senseless, stupid |
| ineptitude | incompetence |
| ingenuous | unsophisticated, naive |
| lithe | graceful, supple |
| neophyte | beginner |
| oversight | mistake |
| painstaking | careful |
| pedant, pedantic, pedantry | a person who makes a great show of their knowledge |
| precocious | talented beyond someones age |
| provincial | narrow-minded, unsophisticated |
| punctilious | meticulous, attentive to detail |
| pundit | a knowledgeable commentator |
| quixotic | foolish |
| sage | wise |