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Boda Vocab 11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sanctimonious (adj.) | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness; moral superiority |
| Scrupulous (adj.) | punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact; attentive to detail |
| Serendipity (n) | an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident; luck |
| Solicitous (adj.) | anxious or concerned; eager; careful or particular |
| Specious (adj.) | superficially pleasing or plausible; pleasing to the eye but deceptive; looks genuine |
| Stoic (n) | a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining; shows no emotion |
| Stratum (n) | a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed; usually pertains to a social class or rocks |
| Stymie (v) | to prevent or hinder the process of; an obstacle |
| Subjugate (v) | to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master; bring under control through conquest |
| Supercilious (adj.) | behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others |
| Superfluous (adj.) | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive |
| Surreptitious (adj.) | obtained, done, made by stealth; secret or unauthorized |
| Sycophant (n) | a self-seeking, servile flatterer; a fawning parasite; suck-up |
| Tacit (adj.) | understood without being openly expressed; implied |
| Tangential (adj.) | merely touching; slightly connected |
| Tantamount (adj.) | equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification; equivalent to |
| Tenacious (adj.) | holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold; stubborn; cling to other things of substances |
| Tenuous (adj.) | thin or slender in form, as a thread; thin or rare; weak and flimsy; shaky |
| Touchstone (n) | a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing; a standard; genuineness; a fundamental part or feature |
| Trepidation (n) | tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation; to be so afraid you shake |
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