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Avalos Week 25

SAT Words #121-170

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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 understood
Precipitate to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
Vex to annoy
Whimsical lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
Arbitrary determined by chance or impulse
Corroborate to make more certain; confirm
Dupe to deceive or a person who is easily deceived
Euphemism use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Intransigent uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
Luminous bright, brilliant, glowing
Mollify to calm or make less severe
Opprobrium public disgrace
Pristine fresh and clean, uncorrupted
Proclivity a natural inclination or predisposition
Arbitrate to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
Archaic ancient, old-fashioned
Credulous too trusting; gullible
Crescendo steadily increasing in volume or force
Exacerbate to make worse
Exculpate to clear from blame, prove innocent
Inundate to overwhelm, to cover with water
Prodigal lavish, wasteful
Proliferate to increase in number quickly
Viscous thick and adhesive, like a slow flowing fluid
Created by: cavalos
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