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SAT Princeton2
Sat2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ameliorate | to make something better; improve |
| curative | able to heal or cure |
| palliative | relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure. |
| amalgam | a combination or diverse elements, a mixture |
| inundate | to overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp |
| multifarious | diverse, various |
| multiplicity | state of being various or manifold; a great number |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
| opulent | displaying great wealth |
| penchant | a strong inclination or liking |
| ubiquitous | being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent |
| bombastic | given to pompous speech or writing |
| ebullience | intense enthusiasm |
| exorbitant | exceeding all bounds |
| flagrant | extremely or deliberately shocking or noticable |
| ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct |
| impugn | to attack as false or questionable |
| pejorative | disparaging, belittling, insulting |
| supplant | to unsurp the place of |
| abase | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
| deride | to mock contemptuously |
| derogatory | insulting or intended to insult |
| disparage | to speak of negatively; to belittle |
| effrontery | brazen boldness, presumptuousness |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable content before publication or release |
| extirpate | to destroy |
| raze | to level to the ground, demolish |
| extol | to praise highly |
| philanthropic | humanitarian, benevolent, relating to monetary generosity |
| reciprocate | to mutually take or give; to respond in kind |
| chicanery | trickery |
| eminent | distinguished, prominent |
| sanctimonious | feigning piety or righteousness |
| solicitous | concerned |
| sophistry | plausible but misleading or fallacious argument |
| veracity | adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
| indict | to officially charge with wrongdoing or crime |
| litigious | prone to engage in lawsuits |
| parity | equality in status, amount, value |
| rectitude | moral uprightness |
| remiss | lax in attending to duty; negligent |
| contiguous | sharing an edge or a boundary |
| exonerate | to free from blame |
| castigate | to scold or rebuke or harshly criticize |
| censure | to issue official blame |
| vituperative | marked by harshly abusive condemation |
| relinquish | to retire from; give up or abandon |
| esoteric | intended for or understood by only a small group |
| insular | isolated; narrow or provincial |
| potentate | one who has the power and position to rule over all others |
| staid | unemotional; serious |
| arcane | known or understood by only a few |
| assimilate | to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar |
| rudimentary | elementary, basic, early stage of development |
| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| callous | unfeeling, cold, hard |
| disseminate | to scatter widely |
| erudition | deep, extensive learning |
| husbandry | the application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding |
| perspicacious | shrewd, clearsighted |
| precocious | exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity |
| adroit | dexterous, deft |
| circumspect | careful, prudent, discreet |
| extrapolate | to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information. |
| insinuate | to imply or communicate stealthily |
| another word | goes here |
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