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Lesson 15 & 16 Vocab
SAT Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| noxious | harmful to the health |
| connive | to cooperate secretly in wrongdoing |
| chutzpah | nerve |
| liege | lord |
| odium | hatred |
| crass | crude |
| hypercritical | overcritical |
| fallacy | a mistaken notion |
| complacent | confident |
| befuddle | to confused |
| pandemonium | chaos |
| parsimonious | cheap |
| verbose | wordy |
| indiscreet | not wise or judicious |
| laudable | worthy of praise; commendable |
| pique | to cause resentment; to provoke |
| linguistics | the science of language |
| plebeian | 1. a commoner 2. common or vulgar |
| precocious | showing early development; advanced |
| predatory | preys on others |
| prowess | superior skill or ability |
| pugnacious | eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome |
| purloin | to steal |
| pusillanimous | cowardly; fearful |
| quell | to put an end to; to quit |
| quixotic | very idealistic; impractical |
| rabble | a disorderly crows; a mob |
| rabid | raging |
| raconteur | a person skilled at telling stories |
| vindictive | seeking revenge; bearing a grudge |