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PSAT/NMSQT Prep

Vocabulary List #2

QuestionAnswer
Complacent smug; self-satisfied
Guile cunning; duplicity
Squander to waste
Incessant unceasing; never-ending
Laudable worthy of praise
Deter to prevent; to stop; to keep from happening
Redundant repetitive; unnecessary; excessively wordy (like this definition!)
Infamous shamefully wicked; having a bad reputation; disgraceful
Provocative exciting; attracting attention
Depravity moral corruption
Gravity seriousness (secondary meaning)
Banal unoriginal; ordinary
Extol to praise
Euphony pleasant sound
Deride to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously
Insipid dull; banal
Austere unadorned; stern; forbidding; without much money
Expedite to make faster
Heresy an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs
Novel new; original
Philanthropy love of mankind; donating to charity
Deference submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
Vacillate to be indecisive; to waver back and forth
Fervor passion
Dispassionate without passion; objective; neutral
Pragmatic practical; down-to-earth; based on experience rather than theory
Rigorous strict; harsh; severe
Solemn serious; grave
Alleviate to lessen; to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely
Negligence carelessness
Conspicuous standing out; obvious
Advocate to speak in favor of; support
Ascetic hermitlike; practicing self-denial
Profound deep; insightful
Ironic satiric; unexpected
Dogmatic arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas
Condone to overlook; to permit to happen
Dissent disagreement
Volition will; conscious voice
Didactic instructive; intended to instruct
Disparate different; incompatible
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