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College Prep List 3
Good Counsel College Prep List 3 1st semester 2010
Question | Answer |
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Acumen | (n)a sharp intelligence |
Affinity | (n)a natural liking for or to a person, thing or idea |
Asinine | (adj)idiotic, unintelligent |
Bombastic | (adj)pompous,verbose |
Brevity | (n)briefness, shortness |
Candor | (n) honesty, bluntness |
Cognitive | (adj)pertainging to the processes of reasoning,memory or judgment |
Complacent | (adj)content, satisfied |
Cumbersome | (adj)bulky, awkward (in terms of size) |
Dearth | (n)a lack or shortage of something |
Debacle | (n)disaster, fiasco, catastrophe |
Demographic | (n)a single vital or social statistic of a human population |
Deter | (v)to prevent or to dissuade |
Discretion | (n)the right to decide according to one's own judgement or the quality to being discreet |
Disdain | (n)extreme hatred for something |
Empirical | (adj)determined or proved through observation or experiment |
Feral | (adj)wild, undomesticated, untamed |
Guile | (n)slyness, coyness |
Hegemony | (n)domination over another nation or people |
Idiosyncrasy | (n)quirk, unique habit |
Indifferent | (adj)apathetic, unconcerned |
Indignant | (adj)the feeling of displeasure due to something unjust or offensive |
Innate | (adj)inherent, natural |
Jargon | (n)slang, lingo |
Meddlesome | (adj)intrusive,nosy |
Meticulous | (adj)anal, detailed |
Mitigate | (v)alleviate, lesson |
Mundane | (adj)ordinary, dull, routine |
Myriad | (n)a great number of persons or things |
Nihilism | (n)total rejection of established laws OR a philosophy of nothingness or nonexistence |
Pallid | (adj)pale, lacking color |
Permeate | (v)to spread throughout, to seep into |
Peruse | (v)to look carefully at something |
Prodigal | (adj)reckless, uncontrolled |
Repudiate | (v)todeny, to reject |
Rescind | (v)to take back, to withdraw |
Scathing | (adj)bitterly harsh, (like a scathing review of a movie) |
Scrutinize | (adj)to analyze, to study closely |
Sojourn | (adj)to stay in one place |
Succinct | (adj)concise, to the point |
Surreptitiously | (adj)secretly, sneakily, slyly |
Tangible | (adj)touchable, real, physical |
Transgress | (v)to violate the law |
Transgressions | (n)violation of the law |
Wane | (v)to decrease in size |
Whim | (n)an impulse, or an urge |