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SAT 2015 List 7-10
Hot Words list 7-10
Term | Definition |
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animosity | hatred; ill will |
bellicose | of a quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike; belligerent |
belligerent | taking part in war or fighting ready to fight |
cantankerous | bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
captious | made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling |
contentious | quarrelsome; belligerent |
disputatious | likely to dispute or argue |
polemical | inclined to argue or debate; controversial |
pugnacious | eager to fight; belligerent |
altruistic | showing an unselfish concern for others |
largess | generous giving |
lavish | generous in giving to others or in spending money |
munificent | very generous |
philanthropic | showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable; humane |
prodigal | wasteful; lavish |
austere | having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to foregoing luxuries, frills; stern in manner or appearance |
penurious | stingy; relating to great poverty, destitution |
confounding | puzzling; baffling |
cryptic | hidden; hard to understand; mysterious; obscure |
debacle | a failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical |
enigma | a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person |
labyrinth | a maze from which it is very hard to extricate (free) oneself |