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SAT Vocab 55-72
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Egregious | out of the group, outstandingly bad |
| antipathy | feeling against someone or something, dislike |
| empathy | feeling the same thing as someone else |
| diffident | lack of faith in oneself, lack of confidence |
| fidelity | loyalty, faithfulness |
| infidelity | unfaithfulness |
| Perfidious | treacherous, untrustworthy |
| Elucidate | to make clear, clarify |
| Lucid | clear, readily understood |
| pellucid | very clear, transparent |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light |
| acrid | unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor |
| Acrimonious | full of spite, bitter, nasty |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| acumen | mental sharpness |
| acute | a sharp angle, very keen |
| exacerbate | to sharpen or aggravate a conflict, inflame |
| affluent | to flow in abundance, wealthy |
| confluence | to flow together, convergence |
| superfluous | to flow above, hence exceeding what it necessary |
| implacable | incapable of being calmed, relentless |
| complacent | to be so calm to be self satisfied, smug |
| placate | to calm the anger of |