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sat vocabulary5
Question | Answer |
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Eschew | To avoid; to shun; to stay clear of |
Churlish, sullen, surly | Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility |
Restitution | The act of making good or compensating for a loss, damage, or injury |
Execrable, odious | repugnant, detestable; repulsive; extremely bad |
Perspicacious | Insitful, percepticve, discerning |
Eclectic | Choosing or using a veriety of sources |
Hiatus | An interruption in time or continuity; a break |
Esoteric, arcane | Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite |
Supercilious | Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority |
Blithe | Joyous; sprightly; mirthful; light; vivacious |
Underwrite | To assume financial responsibility for |
Discomfited | Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment |
Sinecure | An office or position that provides an income for little or no work |
Provincial, parochial, insular | Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook |
Lugubrious | Sad, mournful, melancholic |
Fecund | Intellectually productive or inventive, fertile |
Ostentatious | Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious |
Sanguine | Cheerfully confident; optimistic |
Pernicious | Highly injurious; destructive; deadly |
Refractory | Obstinately resistant to authority or control |
Garrulous | Loquacious, annoyingly talkative; verbose |
Convivial | Sociable; fond of feaing, drinking, and good company |
Brusque, curt | Abrupt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt |
Protean | Readily taking on varied forms and meanings (Proteus) |
Solicitous | Showing great care and concern; attentive |
Disingenuous | Insincere; not straightforward; not candid |
Venerate | To regard with great respect; to hold in high esteem |
Contentious | Quarrelsome; argumentative; likely to provoke a controverys; disputatious; (not content) |
Preculde | To make impossible; to rule out; to prevent |
Compunction, contrition, pentince | Feelings of sincere and deep regret |
Bombastic | Pompous or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in style |
Forbearance | Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse |
Proscribe | To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw |