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SAT vocabulary wk 17
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with talent |
| Flower | to develop fully |
| Genial | cordial; pleasantly warm;Friendly and cheerful; Pleasantly mild and warm |
| Germane | important to the issue at hand; pertinent |
| Laggard | Slower than desired or expected; sluggish |
| Martial | relating to war or a warrior |
| Nimble | quick in movement or resourcefulness |
| Palette | board on which a painter mixes paints |
| Philology | study of literature, especially language used in literature. |
| Precognition | knowing something before it happen |
| Quaint | unusual in character or appearance |
| Refrain | a recurring phrase or verse |
| Resurge | to rise again |
| Searing | causing to withered or dried up ; burn |
| Splice | to join |
| Syncopation | the accenting of musical beats not normally accented |
| Trenchant | incisive or keen; caustic cutting; |
| vestiges | remnants, traces, reaming; A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists. |
| winsome | winning, engaging or charming |
| codicil | supplement or amendment codells to will; An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one. |
| Crescendo | gradual increase in volume and intensity. |
| aperture | a hole or an opening |
| abject | utterly hopeless, humiliating or wretched; contemptible |
| Array | a large grouping of thing; regular order or arrangement; to doth |
| bolt | to move suddenly |