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Marino Mission CHP 3
SAT vocab from chapter three
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animated | full of movement and activity |
| domestic | devoted to home duties and pleasures |
| limitation | something that limits; restraint |
| covet | to wish for enviously |
| deliberate | characterized by or resulting from careful and thorough consideration |
| cultivating | fostering, furthering, encouraging |
| desolate | desertved, isolated |
| wary | marketed by keen caution |
| usurp | to take the place of by or as if by force; supplant |
| consign | commit, especially to a final destination or fate |
| debatable | arguable, worthy of debate or consideration |
| comrade | an intimate friend or associate; companion |
| flourish | grand gesture, display (also has another meaning, to thrive) |
| denounce | to pronounce (especially publicly) to be bad, blameworthy, or evil |
| disgruntled | discontent, unhappy |
| emphatically | with emphasis, forcefully |
| affirming | expressing dedication |
| asserted | to declare forcefully |
| upstart | unknown, insignificant person, low on the totem pole |
| hospitable | promising or suggesting generous and cordial welcome |
| elaborate | give details, expand upon a subject |
| protocol | the plan of a scientific experiment |
| empowering | yielding power or authority |
| impulsively | spontaneously, on a whim |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| authoritatively | with authority, commandingly,, convincingly |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| parched | very dry, dehydrated (can also mean very thirsty) |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time |
| franchise | the license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
| encampment | the state of being encamped (to place or establish in a camp) |
| perspective | point of view |
| deprived | marked by deprivation, especially a lack of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences |
| mendicant | beggar |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| subsist | to thave or acquire teh necessities of life (such as food and clothing) |
| penurious | marked by a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as in money) |
| patrons | customers |
| ethnicity | ethnic quality or affiliation |
| ostracized | to exclude form a group by common consent |
| scurried | scampered; to move in or as if in a brisk, rapidly alternating step |
| translucent | clear, transparent |
| serendipitously | obtained by serendipity (the faculty of finding valuable or agreeable things accidentally) |
| decadent | self-indulgent |
| archaic | characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time |
| dingy | dirty, discolored |
| unintelligible | incomprehensible, making no sense |
| deflect | to turn from a straight course or fixed direction; bend |
| lithe | characterized by easy flexibility and grace |
| exorbiantly | excessively; exeedingly |
| extricate | to release from entanglement or difficulty |
| evade | avoid, doge |
| perspicacity | having acute mental vision or discernment; clear-sighted; shrewd |
| proximity | nearness, closeness |
| divulge | reveal, tell |
| indiscretion | something (an act or a remark) marked by a lack of discretion (cautious reserve) |
| discretionary | left to discreation, exercised at one's own discretion (the quality of being discreet; cautious reserve in speech) |
| feigned | fictitious, faked; artificial |
| efficaciously | effective, having the power to ahieve the desired effect |
| inundate | to overwhelm with abundance; as if with a flood |
| foraged | searched; rummaged |
| corrosive | having the power to break down or eat away at something (can also mean very sarcastic) |
| soluble | able to dissolve in a liquid |
| denouement | finale, conclusion |
| lull | quiet period |
| coalesce | to arise form the combination of distict elements; to unite into a whole |
| enigmatic | something hard to understand or explain; mysterious |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| debilitation | impairing the strength of |
| bequeathing | handling down, transmitting |
| invigorating | stimulating, energizing |
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