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Jeniffer stack
SAT words 51-101
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consumate | extremely skillful, complete, perfect |
| Categorical | unconditional, absolute, without exception |
| Malaise | A sense of lethargy and unease, a feeling of being run down, a feeling of being depressed |
| Awry | off course, not right |
| platitude | a trite, overused saying, a cliche usually offered as advice ow wisdom |
| Destitute | extremely poor, impoverished, lacking in what is required for basic sustenance |
| Extrovert | an outgoing, gregarious person |
| Ephemeral | short lived, fleeting |
| Callow | immature, unsophisticated due to youthfulness, inexperienced |
| Malleable | easy to shape or mold |
| Legacy | refers to something inherited or passed down |
| Discriminate | to make a distinction |
| Monolithic | expresses both the idea of massiveness and the idea of being all of one piece |
| abject | hopeless, wretched, miserable |
| Vitriolic | caustic, full of bitterness, extremely nasty |
| Beset | to be besieged, surrounded on all sides, attacked by |
| renounce | to give it up, to deny or forsake it |
| Matriculate | to enroll, especially in a college or university |
| Convivial | festive, friendly, good natured, jovial |
| Venerate | honor, to deeply respect, to treat with reverence, as though sacred |
| Contiguous | adjoining, touching |
| Arbitrary | unfair, determined by impulse or individual will, having no particular rhyme or reason |
| Pristine | pure, unspoiled, uncorrupted, immaculately clean |
| Succinct | concise, short, and to the point, brief |
| Farcical | absurd, ridiculous, having the characteristics of a farce |
| Nepotism | practice of showing favoritism to relatives or close friends in business or politics |
| Cogent | persuasive, convincing, pertinent |
| Rustic | rural, countrified, lacking the comforts or the sophistication of a city |
| Doctrinaire | to be dogmatic, to espouse a theory, doctrine, or belief system whether or not it is practical, to be inflexible |
| vitiate | pollute, to spoil, to impair, corrupt, or pervert |
| Uniform | consistent, standard, without variation |
| Coherent | to be understandable, to make sense |
| Transgress | to violate law, to offend, to sin |
| Stagnation | refers to lack of movement that also implies staleness, a lack of progress or growth |
| Onerous | burdensome, oppressive, distasteful |
| Convert | secret, hidden, concealed, disguised |
| Adulation | excessive praise, adoration, hero worship |
| Discern | to distinguish, to differentiate from something else, to perceive |
| Genteel | refined, polite, aristocratic, well bred, cultivated |
| Demagogue | a rabble-rouser, a leader who tries to stir up others by playing on their emotions, rather than appealing to their reason, someone who uses people's prejudices and fears to move them to action |
| Comprehensive | to be complete, to be inclusive, to cover a large scope, to leave nothing out |
| Integral | essential, in the sense of being inseparable from |
| Obtuse | to be dense, slow to catch on unobservant, not tuned in |
| Decimate | to destroy most of, to annihilate |
| Lethargy | sluggishness, laziness, drowsiness, indifference |
| Provincial | simple and unsophisticated |
| Relinquish | to release, to let go of, to surrender, to stop doing |
| Noxious | poisonous or very harmful |
| Desiccate | to dry out, to remove the moisture from |
| Peccadillo | a minor offense, a meaningless fault, a pretty violation |
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