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Marino Mission CHP14
SAT vocab from chapter fourteen
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| disingenuous | lacking in candor; calculating |
| dissembler | one who puts on a false appearance; conceals facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense |
| perfidious | disloyal or faithless |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| liberating | the at of setting free |
| deviousness | not straightforward; deceptive |
| epistolary | contained in or carried on by letters |
| revelatory | serving to reveal something |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| cathartic | characterized by a purification or purgation of the emotions that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension |
| therapeutic | providing or assisting in a cure |
| conception | the originating of something in the mind; idea |
| submissive | to yield oneself to the authority or will of another |
| volition | an act of mkaing a choice or decision |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling; hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| partake | to take part in or experience something along with others |
| altrustic | behavior that is unselfish in its regard for or devotion to the welfare of others |
| abridge | to shorten in duration or extent |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| addendum | a thing added; an addition |
| accentuate | accent, emphasize |
| amanate | to come out from a source |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| instill | to impart gradually |
| tractable | easily handled, managed, or wrought |
| surmountable | able to prevail over; able to overcome |
| irresolute | indecisive (not resolute or firm) |
| pervasive | that pervades (to become diffused throughout every part of) or tends to pervade |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| heretofore | up to this time; hitherto |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| imposing | impressive in size, bearing, dignity, or grandeur |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| incalculably | not capable of being calculated; not predictable |
| legions | a large number; a multitude |
| impressionable | capable of being easily impressed |
| inarticulate | incapable of speech, especially under stress of emotion |
| susceptible | open to some stimulus, influence, or agency |
| frivolity | playful merriment that lacks substance or purpose |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior |
| indiscriminately | not marked by careful distinction; deficient in discrimination and discernment; haphazard; random |
| daunting | something that daunts (lessens one's courage) |
| interspersed | to place something at intervals in or among |
| ardently | characteried by warmth of feeling, typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity |
| stimulus | something that rouses or incites to activity |
| incisively | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner of presentation) |
| indeterminate | not definitely or preisely determined; vague |
| heralded | to greet, especially with enthusiasm; to hail, publicize, or signal |
| encapsulated | epitomized |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention |
| ostensibly | represented or appearing as such; plausible rather than demonstrably true |
| autonomous | existing or capable of existing independently |
| inefficacious | lacking the power to produce the desired effect |
| premise | a preposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn |
| impetus | a driving force; impulse |
| extolled | praised highly; glorified |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| enclosure | something that encloses (to close in) |
| pinioned | to disable or restrain; to bind fast |
| hindrance | the state of being hindered (to make slow or difficult the progress of) |
| execution | the act or process of executing (to carry out fully, put completely into effect) |
| phenomenon | an unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurence |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy), taking liberties |
| venture | an undertaking involving chance, risk, or danger |
| debunk | to expose the sham or falseness of |
| recommenced | to start again |
| euphoric | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| momentous | important, consequential |
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