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College Prep List 3

Good Counsel College Prep List 3 1st semester 2010

QuestionAnswer
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
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