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SAT vocab week 1
Question | Answer |
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candid | completely honest, straightforward; Candace's cadidness overwhelmed her business colleagues, who were not used to such honesty. |
conjecture | inference; guesswork. At this point, Kimaya's hypothesis about single-cell biorhythms is still conjecture: She doesn't have conclusive evidence. |
didactic | instructive. The tapes were entertaining and didactic; they both amused and instructed children. |
euphemism | a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt or offensive term. "To pass away" is a common euphemism for dying. |
extrapolate | to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information. Seeing the wrecked bike and his daughter's, Heath extrapolated that she had had a biking accident. |
incoherent | lacking cohesion or connection. Maury's sentences were so incoherent that nobody understood a word. |
insinuate | to imply or communicate stealthily. Sean insinuated that Grace stole the arsenic, but he never came out and said it. |
lucid | easily understood; clear. Our teacher provides lucid explanations of even the most difficult concepts so that we can all understand them. |
rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively. |