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List 14 - SAT Words
Freshman English lift for List 14 - SAT Words
Question | Answer |
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gradation | process occuring by regular degrees or stagtes; variation in color |
grandiloquence | pompos talk, fancy but meaningless language |
gratis | free, costing nothing |
guile | trickery, deception |
hackneyed | worn out by overuse |
hallowed | holy; treated as sacred |
hamlet | small village |
harbinger | precursor, sign of something to come |
harrowing | extremely distressing, terrifying |
hedonism | pursuit of pleasure as a goal |
hegemony | leadership, domination, usually by a country |
heterodox | unorothodox, not widely accepted |
hiatus | break, interruption, or a vacation |
hoary | very old; witish or gray from age |
homonym | word identical in pronounciation and spelling but different in meaning |
hone | to sharpen |
hyperbole | purposeful exaggeration for effect |
hypochondria | unfounded belief that one is often ill |
hypothetical | theoretical, speculative |
iconoclast | one who attacks traditional or religious beliefs |
idiosyncrasy | peculiarity ot temperment, eccentricity |
illusory | unreal, deceptive |
immutable | unchangable, inveriable |
impassive | showing no emotion |
impediment | something that blocks or hinder |