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SAT 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| lugubrious | mournful to a ludicrous degree |
| penchant | strong liking |
| vignette | short story |
| amalgam | mixture |
| multifarious | diverse |
| ameliorate | improve |
| curative | healing |
| palliative | relieving symptoms of a disease |
| complement | addition |
| felicitous | suitable |
| duplicitous | deceptive |
| fallacy | false notion |
| mendacious | untruthful |
| specious | misleading |
| ambivalent | conflicting |
| capricious | arbitrary |
| equivocal | ambiguous |
| impetuous | impulsive |
| impetus | stimulus |
| vacillate | go back and forth |
| whimsical | unpredictable |
| flag | to droop |
| jaded | worn out |
| ingenuous | naive |
| subterfuge | deception |
| dearth | lack |
| modicum | small amount |
| paucity | scarcity |
| tenuous | shaky |
| maverick | radical |
| synergy | combined action |
| tangential | digressing |
| aural | related to hearing |
| cacophony | unpleasant noise |
| dirge | funeral hymn |
| eclectic | comprehensive |
| sonorous | deep sound |
| strident | shrill |
| debacle | disastrous |
| debilitate | weaken |
| anachronistic | chronological error |
| archaic | old |
| dilatory | habitually late |
| ephemeral | temporary |
| redolent | aromatic |
| onerous | burdensome |
| portent | omen |
| prescience | foreknowledge |
| insipid | uninteresting |
| prosaic | dull |
| soporific | sleep inducing |
| vapid | lacking liveliness |