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SAT Vocab
Lesson 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic (sanguis blood) |
| Phlegmatic | sluggish |
| Melancholy | sad, depressed (melan- black + choler bile) |
| Choleric | easily angered (choler- bile + -ic characterized by) |
| Recalcitrant | stubbornly resistant to authority (re- back + calcitrare kick) |
| Lethargic | sluggish; dully apathetic |
| Splenetic | irritable; easily angered (splen- spleen) |
| Querulous | disposed to complaining |
| Dolorous | marked by or expressive of sorrow or pain (dolor- pain) |
| Animosity | hostility; ill-will (animosus bold) |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly (pusillus- weak + anima spirit) |
| Lassitude | feeling of weakness of listlessness |