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SAT Words 27
of 1000
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| divulge | (v.) to reveal something secret (Pressured by the press, the government finally _____d the previously unknown information.) |
| docile | (adj.) easily taught or trained (She successfully taught the _____ puppy several tricks.) |
| dogmatic | (adj.) aggressively and arrogantly certain about unproved principles (His _____ claim that men were better than women at fixing appliances angered everyone.) |
| dormant | (adj.) sleeping, temporarily inactive (Though she pretended everything was fine, her anger lay _____ throughout the dinner party and exploded in screams of rage after everyone had left.) |
| dour | (adj.) stern, joyless (The children feared their _____ neighbor because the old man would take their toys if he believed they were being too loud.) |
| dubious | (adj.) doubtful, of uncertain quality (Suspicious that he was only trying to get a raise, she found his praise _____.) |
| duplicity | (n.) crafty dishonesty (His _____ involved convincing his employees to let him lower their salaries and increase their stock options, and then to steal the money he saved and run the company into the ground.) |
| duress | (n.) hardship, threat (It was only under intense _____ that he, who was normally against killing, fired his gun.) |
| dynamic | (adj.) actively changing (The parents found it hard to keep up with the _____ music scene with which their children had become very familiar.) |
| ebullient | (adj.) extremely lively, enthusiastic (She became _____ upon receiving an acceptance letter from her first-choice college.) |
| eclectic | (adj.) consisting of a diverse variety of elements (That bar attracts an _____ crowd: lawyers, artists, circus clowns, and investment bankers.) |
| ecstatic | (adj.) intensely and overpoweringly happy (The couple was _____ when they learned that they had won the lottery.) |
| edict | (n.) an order, decree (The ruler issued an _____ requiring all of his subjects to bow down before him.) |
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