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Avalos Week 23

SAT Words #101-150

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Anachronism something out of place in time
Coalesce to grow together to form a single whole
Disparate fundamentally different; entirely unlike
Esoteric known or understood only by a few
Florid excessively decorated or embellished
Guile deceit, trickery
Homogenous of a smiliar kind
Inchoate not fully formed, disorganized
Laud to give praise, to glorify
Misanthrope a person who dislikes others
Analogous similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
Anomaly deviation from what is normal
Cogent convincing and well-reasoned
Dissemble to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character
Erudite learned, scholarly, bookish
Foment to arouse or incite
Inimical hostile, unfriendly
Lavish extremely generous or extravagant; to give unsparingly
Placate to soothe or pacify
Plastic able to be molded, altered or bent
Antagonize to annoy or provoke to anger
Antipathy extreme dislike
Condone to overlook, pardon or disregard
Dissonance a harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds
Equivocate to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Erratic wandering and unpredictable
Lethargic acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
Opaque impossible to see through, preventing the passage of light
Plethora excess
Rhetoric effective writing or speaking
Apathy lack of interest or emotion
Connoisseur a person with expert knowledge or discriminating tastes
Dogma a firmly held opinion, especially a religious belief
Estimable admirable
Fortuitous happening by chance, fortunate
Innocuous harmless
Loquacious talkative
Mitigate to soften, to lessen
Pragmatic practical as opposed to idealistic
Verbose wordy
Approbation approval and praise
Convoluted intricate and complicated
Dogmatic dictatorial in one's opinion
Eulogy speech in praise of someone
Frugality tending to be thrifty or cheap
Insipid lacking interest or flavor
Lucid clear and easily nderstood
Precipitate to throw violently or bring about abru[ptly; lacking deliberation
Vex to annoy
Whimsical lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
Created by: cavalos
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