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Words I will know 07
SAT-level vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| galore | in a abundance; in plentiful amounts |
| cachinnate (v) [cac kuh nate] | to laugh loudly or immoderately |
| fallacy (n) | an error in fact or logic |
| bilocation (n) | the state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time |
| incorrigible (adj) | impossible to manage to reform |
| anacoluthia (n) | lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence |
| kith (n) | acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like |
| fulcrum | prop or support |
| couchant (adj) | lying down; crouching; reclining |
| impute (v) | to credit or give responsibility to; to attribute |
| schlep (v) | to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously |
| orthoepy [awr | thoh |
| lupine (adj) | savage; ravenous; predatory |
| languid (adj.) | without energy; slow; sluggish; listless |
| virulence | poisonousness; malignancy |
| gormandize (v) | to eat greedily or ravenously |
| upbraided | scold |
| surly | irritable |
| perfunctory¬ | routine |
| contrived | unnatural |
| insolent | marked by casual disrespect |
| jargon | unintelligible language |
| foudroyant (adj) | sudden and overwhelming in effect |
| intrepid | fearless and resolute |
| ruction | a disturbance, quarrel, or row |
| strenuous (adj) | requiring energy and strength |
| succumb | consent reluctantly |
| incunabulum (n) | earliest stages or first traces of anything |
| liminal (adj) | of or relating to a sensory threshold |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| premorse | pertaining to the end of something irregularly shortened, as if bitten or broken off |
| stultiloquy | foolish talk; silly discourse; babbling |
| rhapsodize (v) | to talk with extravagant enthusiasm |
| koan (n) | a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating |
| visage | the human face; appearance of the face |
| divulge (v) | to reveal |
| fantod (n) | a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness |