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List 14 - SAT Words
Freshman English lift for List 14 - SAT Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |