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SAT Vocab 6
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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) |
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