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Marino Mission CHP 4
SAT vocab from chapter four
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stifling | to withhold from circulation or expression; repressing |
| uplifting | improving the spiritual, social, or intellectual condition of; inspiring, enrichign |
| sensibilities | sensitivities; awareness of and responsiveness to something |
| explicitly | clearly, unambiguously |
| prophetic | foretelling events; predictive |
| surreptitiously | done, made, or acquired by stealth; secretly, slyly |
| fervently | exhibited or marked by great intensity of feeling; zealously |
| universal | worldwide, genearl, common |
| anemic | lackluster, insipid (can also refer to the medical condition caused by the disease anemia) |
| gourmand | one who is heartily interested in good food and drink |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| envision | to picture to oneself |
| affectation | mannerisms, especially pretentious ones |
| frugal | characterized by economy in the expediture of resources |
| ensemble | a complete costume of harmonizing or complementary clothing and accessories |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective, often by the addition of something that impairs |
| bourgeois | marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity; usually used disparagingly |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources; thrift |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from different sources |
| fantasize | to indulge in fantasy or reverie; daydream |
| maxim | a saying of a proverbial nature; adage |
| pigeonhole | a neat category that usually fails to reflect actual complexities |
| dimension | one of the elements or factors making up a complete personality orentity |
| querulous | argumentative |
| confrontation | the clashing of forces or ideas; conflict |
| mechanisms | a process or technique for achieving a result |
| coherently | logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated |
| livid | very angry; enraged |
| indecorous | not decorous; conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste |
| dissipated | to cause to spread thin or scatter and gradually vanish |
| digress | to turn aside, especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument |
| toady | one who flatters in hope of gaining favors |
| untenable | not able to be defended or occupied |
| unalterable | not capable of being altered or changed |
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