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Hit Parade Week 4
SAT Prep Princeton Review Vocabulary - Hit Parade Week 4
TERM | DEFINITION |
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clandestine (adj.) | done secretively, especially to deceive; surreptitious |
ingenuous | lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness (antonym: disingenuous) |
subterfuge (n.) | a deceptive stratagem or device |
surreptitious (adj.) | secretive; sneaky |
dearth (n.) | scarce supply; lack |
modicum (n.) | a small, moderate, or token amount |
paucity (n.) | smallness in number; scarcity |
squander (v.) | to spend wastefully |
temperate (adj.) | moderate; restrained (antonym: intemperate) |
tenuous (adj.) | having little substance or strength; shaky |
diligent (adj.) | marked by painstaking effort; hardworking |
maverick (n.) | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
mercenary (adj.) | motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain |
obstinate (adj.) | stubbornly attached to an opinion or a course of action |
proliferate (v.) | to grow or increase rapidly |
tenacity (n.) | persistence |
vigilant (adj.) | on the alert; watchful |
extraneous (adj.) | irrelevant; inessential |
juxtapose (v.) | to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
novel (adj.) | fresh; original; new |
superfluous (adj.) | extra; unnecessary |
synergy (n.) | combined action or operation |
tangential (adj.) | merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant |
aesthetic (adj.) | having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
aural (adj.) | of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing |
cacophony (n.) | discordant; unpleasant noise |
dirge (n.) | a funeral hymn or lament |
eclectic (adj.) | made up of a variety of sources or styles |
incongruous (adj.) | lacking in harmony; incompatible |
sonorous (adj.) | producing a deep or full sound |
strident (adj.) | loud, harsh, grating, or shrill |
debacle (adj.) | disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco |
debilitate (v.) | to impair the strength of; weaken |
tumultuous (adj.) | noisy and disorderly |
anachronistic (adj.) | the representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period |
archaic (adj.) | characteristic of an earlier time; antiquated; old |
dilatory (adj.) | habitually late |
ephemeral (adj.) | lasting for only a brief time |
redolent (adj.) | fragrant; aromatic; suggestive |
temporal (adj.) | of, relating to, or limited by time |
onerous (adj.) | troublesome or oppressive; burdensome |
portent (n.) | indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen |
prescience (n.) | knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight |
austere (adj.) | without decoration; strict |
banal (adj.) | drearily commonplace; predictable; trite |
hackneyed (adj.) | worn out through overuse; trite |
insipid (adj.) | uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor |
prosaic (adj.) | unimaginative; dull (antonym: poetic) |
soporific (adj.) | inducing or tending to induce sleep |
vapid (adj.) | lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull |