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SAT vocab num2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| provocative | exciting; attracting attention |
| dispassionate | without passion; objective; neutral |
| fervor | passion |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
| infamous | shamefully wicked; having (and deserving) an extremely bad reputation; disgraceful |
| euphony | a pleasant sound |
| deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
| novel | new, original |
| deride | to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
| expedite | to make faster or easier |
| tentative | experimental; temporary; uncertain |
| austere | unadorned; stern; forbidding; without much money |
| redundant | repetitive; unnecessary; excessively wordy |
| insipid | dull; banal |
| vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver back and forth |
| heresy | an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs |
| gravity | seriousness |
| philanthropy | love of mankind; donating to charity |
| extol | to praise |