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SAT Vocab Lesson2
sat vocabulary words lesson 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| umbrage | offense; annoyance; displeasure |
| fealty | fidelity; faithfulness; allegienace |
| consensus | majority of opinion; accord |
| rigor | strictness, severity, or harshness |
| cudgel | a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club. |
| phonetic | of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. |
| affectation | an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession |
| veto | the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, esp. the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature |
| prolong | to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer |
| effrontery | shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity |
| metamorphosis | any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances |
| tenacious | holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold |
| opulence | wealth;riches; affluance,abundance |
| beseech | to implore urgently |
| lithe | flexible,pliant,limber,supple |
| censorious | severely critical; faultfinding; carping. |
| inaudible | not audible; incapable of being heard |
| nocturnal | of or pertaining to night |
| arbitrary | having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical: |
| hesitant | hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined |
| reckless | utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless |
| partition | a separation, as of two or more things |
| somnolent | sleepy; drowsy. |
| despite | in spite of; notwithstanding |
| abdicate | to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, |