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9th Grade SAT
(summer work) part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hapless | unlucky; luckless; unfortunate |
| ignominious | marked by or attended with disgrace; discreditable; humiliating |
| incarnate | embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; to put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea |
| indigenous | originating or occurring naturally |
| interlocutor | a person who takes part in a (certain) conversation or dialogue |
| intransigent | refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible |
| inviolable | incapable of being violated; incorruptible; unassailable |
| mitigate | to make less severe |
| obdurate | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding |
| obsequious | obedient; dutiful |
| orator | a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker |
| perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
| plausible | having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable |
| preclude | to exclude or debar from something; to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible |
| proclivity | natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition |
| rectitude | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue; correctness: (rectitude of judgment) |
| reverence | a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; a gesture indicative of deep respect |
| subjugate | to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer |
| superfluous | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive; unnecessary; possessing or spending more than enough or necessary |
| transgress | to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin |
| veracity | habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness; conformity to truth or fact; accuracy |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning |