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SAT Prep Vocab
Lesson 2
| Word | Defenition | Part of Speech |
|---|---|---|
| benevolent | doing or inclined to do good; kindly; charitable | (adj) |
| cacophony | harsh, jarring sound or combination of sounds | (n) |
| capitulate | to surrender; give up | (v) |
| capricious | tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason | (adj) |
| circumspect | showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration | (adj) |
| clemency | leniency or mercy, as toward an offender or enemy | (n) |
| coalesce | to unite or merge into a single body, group or mass | (v) |
| cognizant | taking notice; aware or informed of something | (adj) |
| coherent | capable of logical, intelligible speech, thought, etc. | (adj) |
| colloquial | having to do with common or informal conversation | (adj) |
| conflagration | a great fire | (n) |
| confound | to make feel confused; bewilder | (v) |
| congeal | to thicken;coagulate;jell | (v) |
| connoisseur | a person who as expert knowledge and keen discrimination in some field, esp. in fine arts or matters of taste | (n) |
| contemporaneous | living, occurring, or existing at the same time | (adj) |
| convivial | fond of eating, drinking and good company; sociable | (adj) |
| copious | plenteous | (adj) |
| corroborate | to make the validity of more certain; confirm; support | (v) |
| cursory | rapid and superficial | (adj) |
| debilitate | to make weak or feeble | (v) |
| declension | falling off or away; decline; deterioration | (n) |
| deleterious | harmful to health, well-being; injurious | (adj) |
| denouement | the outcome,solution, unraveling, or clarification or a plot in drama, story, etc. | (n) |
| didactic | used or intended for teaching or instruction | (adj) |
| disconsolate | so unhappy that nothing will comfort, inconsolable | (adj) |
| dubious | doubtful | (adj) |
| efface | to obliterate | (v) |
| effervesce | to bubble up | (v) |
| enigmatic | perplexing, baffling | (adj) |
| ephemeral | short-lived; transitory | (adj) |
| equilibrium | a state of balance or equality between opposing forces | (n) |
| euphonious | having a pleasant sound; harmonious | (adj) |
| euphony | the quality of having a pleasant sound | (n) |
| bellicose | of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight; warlike. | (adj) |
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