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SAT VOCAB
sat vocab prep words from reading crit workbook
Dilettante | a person who takes up an art or activity merely for amusement |
Braggart | a person who does a lot of bragging |
Pilferer | someone who steals, especially in small quantities |
Prevaricator | a liar |
Raconteur | a person skilled in telling stories |
Finagle | to trick, swindle, or cheat |
Winnow | to free; to separate or distinguish |
Overhaul | to make necessary repairs on |
Collude | to act together in a secret understanding |
Swindle | to cheat |
Conspire | to agree secretly or in an evil way |
Reimburse | to repay |
Venture | a hazard; to risk |
Incite | to stir, to encourage or to urge on |
Objectify | to materialize |
Innocuously | harmless, not stimulating |
Heedlessly | careless, unmindful |
Esteemed | to regard highly or favorably |
Amiable | having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities |
Veneration | the act of treating with respect |
Irreverence | lack of respect |
Resignation | a formal statement in which one gives up office or position; an accepting, unresisting attitude |
Deprave | to corrupt, to make morally bad or evil |
Condemn | to pronounce to be guilty, to sentence to punishment |
Chicanery | the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial or legal purpose |
Acquiescence | to comply silently without protest |
Derision | ridicule, mockery |
Aggregate | to bring together; a collection of particulars into a whole |
Malignant | very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect |
Jubilant | showing great joy |