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Sat words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wastrel | A person who wastes his or her time or money. |
| Visccous | Resistant to flow, like a very thick liquid; sticky |
| Versatile | Having many talents of uses |
| Redolent | Strongly scented; fragrant |
| Quell | To extinguish; pacify, calm |
| Profuse | In large amounts or quantities |
| Precocious | Mature at a young age |
| Partisan | Blindly devoted to a cause or organization, biased; one-sided |
| Obsolete | No longer usable; outdated |
| Misconstrue | misunderstandment; interpret incorrectly |
| Lucid | easy to understand, transparent; clear |
| Innocuous | harmless; inoffensive |
| Induce | cause to happen; bring about |
| Hierarchy | a group of people in authority; ranked in order of power; a sequential listing |
| Germane | relevant; fitting |
| Ambivalence | indecision; felling of being pulled in two directions |
| Abstruse | difficult to understand |
| Apathy | lack of interest of consern |
| Benign | Gentle; kind-hearted; mild |
| Chastise | scold; punish, castigate |
| Condone | to overlook, excuse, pardon forgive |
| Conviction | an opinion that is strongly held |
| Denounce | criticize; condemn |
| Dilatory | Causing lateness; stalling; slow |
| Enhance | heighten, magnify; intensify; improve |
| Effervescence | Exuberance; high-spirit; being bubbly or full of life |
| Extol | bless, celebrate, praise |
| Flippancy | treating a serious situation with arrogance, humor or disrespect. |
| Adamant | refusing to change; stubborn, unyealding |
| Amity | frienship |
| Austere | stern;plain;without luxuries |
| Avarice | greed |
| Benevolent | king hearted; good-natured; generous |
| Cajole | to pursuade someone to do something; coax; convience |
| Concised | short and to the point |
| Concur | agree |
| Cupidity | greed; especially for money |
| Depleted | emptied, drained, or used up |
| Effece | erace |
| Eloanonce | powerfully effective speach |
| Enigma | Mystery; puzzle |
| Extricate | to free from a trap or difficult situation; distangle |
| Garrisn | flashy, gardy |
| Warranted | justified, authorised |
| Vilify | deface; attack someones reputation |
| Sardonic | humorous, but humor tinged with sarcasm or distain; cynical |
| Recant | take back something you have said, with draw a statement or belief. |
| Qualify | to limit the meaning of previous statement, to modify. |
| Prodigious | very large |
| Preclude | prevent; make imposianble |
| Opaque | too dark or thick for a light to pass through |
| Indolent | lazy |
| Infalable | incapable of making a mistake |
| Insipid | dull; flat; without sparkle or flavor |
| Irrerevent | disrespectful |
| Juncture | point in time especially a cruel one; joint or connection |
| Languish | lose energy or motivation; become weak or depressed |
| Legacy | something inherited; either from an ansester or past sielf |
| Minute | very small in size |
| Objiterate | remove or destroy completely; erase |
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