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SAT Vocab 6
Word | Definition |
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unctuous | Characteristic of a salve or ointment; oily; greasy; excessively suave or smug (adjective) |
acumen | Keen insight; shrewdness (adjective) |
incognito | With one's identity hidden, disguised or unknown (adjective) |
deleterious | Injurious to health; having a harmful effect (adjective) |
lugubrious | Mournful or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated manner (adjective) |
kinetic | Characterized by movement or caused by motion (adjective) |
vacuous | Empty; lacking in or showing a lack of ideas, content, substance or intelligence; purposeless (adjective) |
facetious | Not meant to be taken seriously or literally (adjective) |
loquacious | Characterized by excessive talk; garrulous; wordy (adjective) |
xenophile | A person who is attracted to foreign people, cultures, or customs (noun) |
homogeneous | Composed of the same kind or nature; not heterogeneous (adjective) |
obsequious | Characterized by deference; fawning; sycophantic (adjective) |
precipitous | Of the nature of a situation of great peril; extremely steep (adjective) |
nihilism | Belief that all existence is senseless (noun) |
chicanery | The use of sly language, reasoning etc. to trick or deceive (noun) |
epiphany | A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight (noun) |
sanguine | Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish; ruddy (adjective) |
paradigm | An example serving as a model; pattern (noun) |