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SAT vocab #7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abhor | to regret with extreme repugnance, to detest utterly, to loath sym:depise,abominate ant: to admire |
| accolade | praise, an award syn: ant: censure |
| ascetic | one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation, absent of luxury syn: austere, stern, severe ant: sensual |
| bequeath | to hand down, to give or leave in a will syn: ant: to keep, to horde |
| charlatan | one who claims they know something they don't, a quack syn: ant:professional, authentic authority |
| conflagration | a large fire syn: ant: small flame |
| dearth | a lack, a scarcity syn: paucity ant:adequate supply |
| diffedence | shyness, reserve, unassertivness syn: bashfulness, modesty ant:confident |
| effervescent | showing high spirits syn: ant: |
| ethereal | heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacing material substance, intangible. syn: ant: earthly, mundane |
| expunge | to remove, to erase syn: ant: add to |
| guile | deceitfulness, duplicity syn: ant: openness, candor |
| implausible | unbelievable syn: ant: believable |
| incongruity | nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility syn: ant: agreement |
| insularity | qualities of an island, narrow mindness of opinions syn: ant: broad mindnedd |
| morose | being sullen or gloomy syn:crabbed, slum, saturine, sulky, surly ant: cheerful |
| placate | to appease or pacify by making concessions syn: concillate, mollification, propitiate, ant: to antagonize |
| poignant | pericing, incisive, and keen syn: piquant, pungent, racy ant: dull |
| provincial | lacking of sophistication, narrow-minded syn: ant: sodphiticated |
| reiterate | to repeat syn: ant:to fail to repeat |
| spontaneous | having no external cause, acting on impulse syn: ant: planned |
| synthesis | combining parts into a whole syn: ant: disjoining |
| toxic | posinous syn: ant: harmless, healthful |
| vigilant | very alert, watchful syn: ant: unconcerned, inattentive |
| voluble | ability to use words easly, fluent, and glib syn: garroulous, laqquacious ant: tactiturn |