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SAT Vocab #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed syn:complex, complicated, knotty,intericate ant:readily understood, clear |
| affable | friendly, corteous, amiable syn: cordial, genial, gracious, sociable ant:slurry aloof unfriendly |
| audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring syn: cheek, chutzpah, effrontery, gall, hardihood, temerity ant: meekness |
| contrite | extermeley apologetic, remourseful, repentatent syn: penitent ant; unrepentant |
| creadlous | believeing on slight eviedence gulliable syn; ant:suspicious |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or preserve act syn: abasement, corruption debasement, debauchery ant: nobale behavior |
| deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle mild disapprovement syn: ant: endorse |
| didactic | instructive, designed to teach syn: ant: uninstructive |
| dormant | inactive, sleeping syn: abeyant, latent, quisent ant: active |
| enigmatic | mysterious, puzzling, inexplainable syn: abstruse, ambigious, cryptic, obscure ant: clear |
| euridte | scholarly syn: ant: ignorant |
| exotic | foreign , unfamiliar syn: ant: native |
| fuse | to mix or join usally by melting syn; amagalent , colasce, blend, commingle, merge, mingle ant: to divied |
| immutable | unchanging syn: ant: fickle |
| incorrigible | incaple of being reformed or improved syn: ant: amendale to improvement ant: amendable to improvement |
| loathe | detest syn: anhor, abominate ant: adore |
| mitigate | to cause or become less harsh,hostile to make less servere syn: allay, alleviate, assuage, lighten ant: to intensify, agitate |
| nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate syn: abrogate, annual, invalidate ant: to make effective |
| pasifistic | opposed to war or use of force syn: appeased, confilidated, mollified, placted, propitiated ant: appeased, conciliated, mollified, placted, propitiated ant: martial |
| pretentious | making an extravegent outward show,self- important syn: ostentatious, pompous ant: meek, humble,shy syn: ostentasious, pompous |
| prolouge | introductorary remarks in a speech play or literacy work |
| recant | to withdraw or repuditate a stament or belief , revoke syn: abjure, forswear, renounce, retract ant: to avow to affirm a belief |
| servile | overly submissive syn: obsequious, slavish, subservient ant: authorative |
| trepidation | fear, treambling, agiagation syn: ant: fearlnesses |
| vilify | to malign , to defame, to utter abusive staments against, syn: aperse, calmunate, denigrate, traduce ant: praise acclaim |