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SAT Vocab. 2
SAT Vocabulary 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affable | Easy to talk to; easy to approach, friendly; kind; amiable |
| Amiable | Friendly, kind |
| Amicable | Shwoing goodwill; peaceable |
| Congenial | Compatible; having kindred needs or tastes |
| Convival | Sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking, fond of good company |
| Cordial | Warn and friendly; amiable |
| Gregarious | Sociable, outgoing |
| Jocular | Liking to be with people, joke around with them and have fun |
| Levity | Lightheartedness; carefree disposition, particularly when not appropriate |
| Animosity | Hatred; ill will |
| Antagonism | Hatred or hostility |
| Bellicose | Of quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike; beligerent |
| Belligerent | Taking part in war or fighting; ready to fight |
| Catankerous | Bad-tempered or irritable; quarrelsome |
| Captious | Made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome; belligerent |
| Disputatious | Likely to disoput or argue |
| Polemical | Inclined to argue or debate; controversial |
| Predator | One who takes advantage of another, exploits or feeds on another; a strong adversary or rival |
| Pugnacious | Eager to fight; belligerent |
| Altruistic | Showing an unselfish concern for others |
| Benevolent | Giving freely and easily to others; charitable; kind |
| Largess | Generous giving |
| Lavish | Generous in giving to others or in spending money |
| Magnanimous | Generous in overlooking insult or injury by others; rising above pettiness |
| Munificent | Very generous |
| Philanthropic | Showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable; humane |
| Prodigal | Wasteful; lavish |
| Squander | To spend money (or time)in a wasteful uncaring fashion |
| Austere | Having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to foregoing luxuties and frills; stern in manner or appearance |
| Avaricious | Greedy |
| Frugal | Careul with money; thrify; not prodigal or wasteful |
| Mercenary | Greddy for self gain; thinking only of money making |
| Miserly | Careful with how money is spent; thrify |
| Parsimonious | Overly thrifty or miserly |
| Penurious | Stingy; relating to great poverty; destitution |
| Thrifty | Shwoing care with how money and resources are spent or used |
| Adversity | Great trouble or difficulty |
| Conflagration | A huge fire, an inferno |
| Confounding | Puzzling, baffling |
| Cryptic | Hidden; hard to understand; mysterious; obscure |
| Debacle | A failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical |
| Enigma | A riddle or mystery; a puzzing or baffling matter or person |
| Labyrinth | A maze from which it is very hard to extricate or free oneself |
| Precarious | Dangerous or risky; uncertain |
| Quagmire | A difficult or troubling situation; a swampy ground, bog, mire |
| Quandry | A dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation |
| Turbulence | Great unrest; turmoil or disorder |
| Turmoil | A turbulent scenario or situation; tumult |
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