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Hirsh's SAT Vocab Li
Adding 20 words a day to study and practice
| curmudgeon | an ill-tempered person |
| beleageur | to surround or harass |
| depravity | moral perversion |
| didactic | meaning to instruct |
| probity | complete and confirmed integrity |
| precipitate | to bring about abruptly |
| manifest | to appear; to show clearly; obvious |
| exigency | urgent demand |
| coalesce | to fuse or cause to grow together |
| incisive | getting to the heart of things; to the point |
| baleful | harmful, malign, detrimental |
| pithy | terse and full of meaning |
| doldrums | a state of depression or stagnation |
| cache | a hiding place; the objects hidden in a hiding place |
| cohort | a group of people |
| breadth | distance between things |
| amalgam | mixed with different things |
| provincial | simple and plain, unsophisticated |
| unequivocal | completely clear in meaning, without room for interpretation |
| chafe | annoying;irritating |
| subsist | to manage to remain alive |
| renege | to go back on one's promise or commitment |
| protract | to make something last longer |
| rivet | to focus one's attention on something |
| debilitate | to enfeeble; to wear out |
| trite | commonplace; overused |
| Prosaic | Commonplace; lacking prose |
| treacly | overly sweet |
| petulant | childishly sulky; bad-tempered |
| fastidious | very attentive to detail and concerned about accuracy and detail |
| vindictive | Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge |