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SAT 2015 List 22-24
Hot Words list 22-24
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| chary | cautious; wary |
| circumspect | careful and cautious before acting |
| exacting | requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking |
| gingerly | very carefully |
| heedful | paying careful attention to |
| meticulous | very careful; fussy; finicky |
| scrupulous | showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper |
| wary | cautious, careful |
| evanescent | vanishing quickly; fleeting |
| fleeting | short-lived |
| itinerant | wandering about; tending to move around, travel |
| peripatetic | moving or walking about; itinerant |
| transient | lasting for only a short time; temporary |
| transitory | fleeting |
| volatile | explosive or changing very quickly |
| antediluvian | very, very old; antiquated |
| obsolete | old; outdated, as in no longer in use |
| relic | a custom or object that has been around for a very, very long time |
| contemporary | modern, new; relating to the same time period |
| inception | the start, the beginning of something |
| unprecedented | novel; unparalleled |