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SAT 2015 List 7-10
Hot Words list 7-10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |