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SAT
Second set of 50 hot words for the SAT.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alleviate (uh-lee-vee-ate) | vb. to lessen pain or discomfort |
| Ameliorate (uh-meel-yuh-rate) | vb. to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty or tension |
| Appease (uh-peez) | vb. to make tranquil or quiet especially by giving into another's demands |
| Assuage (uh-sway) | vb. to alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify |
| Mediate (mee-dee-ate) | vb. to act as a go-between in settling conflict or disputes between people or opposing sides |
| Mitigate (mih-tuh-gate) | vb. to make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage |
| Mollify (mol-uh-fie) | vb. to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less sever or violent |
| Pacify (pa-suh-fie) | vb. to calm; to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state |
| Quell (kwel) | vb. to pacify; to subdue; to quiet down |
| Affable (af-uh-bul) | adj. easy to talk to; easy to approach, friendly; kind; amiable |
| Amiable (ay-mee-uh-bul) | adj. friendly, kind |
| Amicable (a-mih-kuh-bul) | adj. showing goodwill; peaceable |
| Congenial (kun-jee-nee-yul) | adj. compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic |
| Convivial (kun-viv-yuhl) | adj. sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond or good company |
| Cordial (core-juhl) | adj. warm and friendly; amiable |
| Gregarious (gri-gehr-ee-us) | adj, sociable, outgoing |
| Jocular (jah-kyuh-lur) | adj. liking to be with people. joke around with them and have fun |
| Animosity (a-nuh-mah-suh-tee) | n. hatred; ill will |
| Antagonism (an-ta-guh-nih-zum) | n. hatred or hostility |
| Bellicose (beh-lih-kose) | adj. of a quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike; belligerent |
| Belligerent (buh-luh-runt) | adj. taking part in war or fighting; ready to fight |
| Cantankerous (kan-tang-kuh-rus) | |
| Captious (cap-shus) | adj. made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling |
| Contentious (kun-ten-shus) | adj. quarrelsome; belliggerent |
| Disputatious (dis-pyuh-tay-shus) | adj. likely to dispute or argue |
| Polemical (puh-leh-mih-kul) | adj. inclined to argue or debate; controversial |
| Predator (preh-duh-tur) | n. one who takes advantage of another, exploits or feeds on another; a strong adversary or rivial |
| Pugnacious (puhg-nay-shus) | adj. eager to fight; belligerent |
| Altruistic (al-troo-iss-tik) | adj. showing a unselfish concern for others |
| Benevolent (bun-nev-lunt) | adj. giving freely and easily to others; charitable; kind |
| Largess (lar-zhehs) also spelled Largesse | n.generous giving |
| Lavish (la-vish) | adj. generous in giving to others or spending money |
| Magnanimous (mag-na-nuh-mus) | adj. generous in overlooking insult or injury by others; rising above pettiness |
| Munificent (myoo-nih-fuh-sunt) | adj. very generous |
| Philanthropic (fih-lun-thrah-pik) | adj. showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitanble; humane |
| Prodigal (prah-dih-gul) | adj. wasteful; lavish |
| Squander (skwan-dur) | vb. to spend money (or time) in a wasteful, uncaring fashion |
| Austere (aw-steer) | adj. having great economy; showing self-control when it come to foregoing luxuries and frills; stern in manner or appearence |
| Avaricious (a-vuh-rih-shus) | adj. greedy |
| Frugal (fro-gul) | adj. careful with money; thrifty; not prodigal or wasteful |
| Mercenary (mur-suh-nehr-ee) | adj. greedy for self-gain; thinking only of money-making |
| Miserly (my-zur-lee) | adj. carful with how money is spent; thrifty |
| Parsimonious (par-suh-moe-nee-us) | adj. overly thrifty or miserly |
| Thrifty (thrif-tee) | adj. showing care with how money and resources are spent or used |
| Adversity (ad-vur-suh-tee) | n. great trouble or difficulty |
| Conflagration (kahn-fluh-gray-shun) | n. a huge fire, and inferno |
| Confounding (kun-foun-ding) | adj. puzzling; baffling |
| Cryptic (krip-tik) | adj. hidden; hard to understand; mysterious, obscure |
| Debacle (dee-bah-kul) | n. failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical |
| Enigma (eh-nig-muh) | n.a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person |
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