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Cy Fair SAT 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abate | dwindle; ebb; reduce; wane |
| contempt | scorn; dislike |
| cosmopolitan | worldly; urbane |
| elicit | bring out a response; to evoke; educe |
| felicitous | delightful, happy |
| interminable | perpetual; everlasting |
| jolity | merriment; hilarity; mirth |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt; repugnant |
| parody | caricature; travesty |
| parsimony | stinginess; frugality |
| penury | extreme poverty; indigence; destitution |
| platitude | trite remark; banal statement; cliche; hackneyed |
| pliable | easily manipulated; malleable |
| profligate | a wasteful person; prodigal |
| pugnacious | looking for a fight; belligerent |
| stealthy | furtive; underhanded; suueptitious |
| supercilious | haughty; insolent; arrogant |
| vociferous | boisterous; clamorous; obstreperous |
| voluminous | marked by great volume or size; capacious |
| vulgarity | coarseness; grossness |