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Hit Parade Week 4
SAT Prep Princeton Review Vocabulary - Hit Parade Week 4
| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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