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From "Hot Words for the SAT"
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bombastic | Using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others |
| Circumlocution | Speaking in circles; roundabout speect |
| Garrulous | Talkative; loquacious |
| Grandiloquent | Using big and fancy words in order to impress others |
| Loquacious | Very talkative, liking to talk |
| Rhetorical | Relatic to persuasive speech; insincere in expression |
| Verbose | Using too many words; long-winded |
| Voluble | Talking a great deal with ease, glib |
| Narcisstic | Having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority over others |
| Ostentatious | Having to do with showing off; pretentious |
| Pretentious | Claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand |
| Banal | Dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed |
| Hackneyed | Made commonplace by over use; trite |
| Insipid | Lacking flavor or tast; unexciting |
| Platitude | Quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if original |
| Prosaic | Dull; commonplace |
| Trite | Unoriginal and stale due to overuse |
| Vapid | Lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
| Allay | To lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain |
| Ameliorate | To make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension |
| Conciliate | To win a person over through special considerations of persuasive methods |
| Mitigate | To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage |
| Mollify | To pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe violent |
| Affable | Easy to talk to or approach; friendly, kind, or amiable |
| Amicable | Showing goodwill, peaceable |
| Congenial | Compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic |
| Convival | Sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company |
| Gregarous | Sociable, outgoing |
| Jocular | Liking to be with people, joke around with them, and have fun |
| Levity | Lightheartedness; gaiety; carefree disposition, particularly when not appropriate |
| Captious | Made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling |
| Contentious | Quarrelsom; belligerent |
| Polemical | Inclined to argue or debate; controversial |
| Pugnacious | Eager to fight; belligerent |
| Altruistic | Showing an unselfish concern for others |
| Largess | Generous giving |
| Magnanimous | Generous in overlooking insult or injury by others; rising above pettiness |
| Munificent | Very generous |
| Prodigal | Wasteful, lavish |
| Austere | Having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to forgoeing luxuries and frills; stern in manner or appearance |
| Avaricious | Greedy |
| Parsimonious | Overly thrifty or miserly |
| Miserly | Careful with how money is spent; thrifty |
| Penurious | Singy; relating to great poverty or destitution |
| Quagmire | A difficult or troubling situation; a swampy ground, bog, or mire |
| Quandary | A dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation |
| Baneful | Causing ruin; harmful; pernicuous |
| Deleterious | Harmful to one's health or overall welfare |
| Odious | Loathesome; evil; revolting in a desgusting way |
| Pernicious | Very distructive or harmful, usually in an inconspicuous or relentless way |
| Virulent | Extremely poisonous or deadly; full of spiteful heatred |
| Carp | To find fault; to be critical |
| Castigate | To scold or punish severly |
| Censure | To critize strongly |
| Impugn | To oppose or attack someone or something as false or refutable |
| Rebuff | To snub; to bluntly refuse |
| Phlegmatic | Hard to get excited or emotional; calm; slow-moving |
| Stolid | Lacking emotion or not showing any emotion; stoical |
| Sedentary | Having to do with sitting around a lot |
| Soporific | Sleep-inducing; sleepy |
| Torpid | Lacking energy; relating to inactivity; feeling sluggish |
| Obsequious | Obeying or performing a service for someone in an overly attentive manner |
| Sycophant | A self-server who tries to gain favor of others through the use of flattery or by being over-attentive |
| Toady | A flatterer; a sycophant |
| Ardent | Full of passion and emotion |
| Ebullient | Filled with bubbly excitment; boiling over with excitement |
| Effervescent | Lively, full of uplifted spirit, vivacious |
| Dogmatic | Strongly opinionated; rigid; dicatorial |
| Hidebound | Strongly opinionated; narrow-mindedly stubborn |
| Intractable | Stubborn; hard to manage |
| Oburdate | Resistant to persuasion or softening; stubbornly persistent in wrongduing |
| Recalcitrant | Stubborn, disobedient, defiant |
| Discordant | Lacking harmony or agreement |
| Euphony | pleasing sound |
| Mellifulous | Sweet and smooth-sounding |
| Raucous | Coars-sounding; loud and unruly |
| Vociferous | Loud and noisy regarding one's own voice, especially shouting; demandingly clamourous |
| Strident | Shrill; high-pitched |
| Acclaim | To express strong approval or praise; hail |
| Accolade | An award given as a sign of appreciation or respect |
| Adulate | To praise or flatter to greatly; fawn over |
| Exalt | To praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity, or power |
| Extol | To praise highly; to laud |
| Laude | To praise; extol |
| Panegyrize | To praise a person or event in formal speech or writing; to praise highly |
| Copious | Abundant; much; plentiful |
| Profuse | Abundant; more than enough |
| Prolific | Abundant; producing a great deal; fertile |
| Surfeit | An oversupply |
| Abstemious | Holding back from eating or drinking too much |
| Alimentary | Relating to food and nourishment |
| Epicurean | Having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking |
| Chary | Cautious; wary |
| Circumpsect | |
| Conscientious | Relating to doing what one knows is right; scrupulous |
| Exacting | Requiring a great del of care or effort; painstaking |
| Scrupulous | Showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a short time; fleeting |
| Evanescent | Vanishing quickly; fleeting |
| Itinerant | Wandering about; tending to move around or travel |
| Peripatetic | Moving or walking about; itinerant |
| Transient | Lasting for only a short time; temporary |
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