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P/SAT Lesson 3
Lesson 3 from AP Strategies
Question | Answer |
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audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
contrite | extremely apologetic, remorsefulcre |
credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
deprecate | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
abstruse | difficult to understand, concealed |
affable | friendly, courteous, amiable |
dormant | inactive, sleeping |
enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
erudite | scholarly |
exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
fuse | to mix or join together (usually by melting) |
immutable | unchanging |
incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
loathe | to detest (hate) |
mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
pacifistic | opposed to war or the use of force |
pretentious | making an extravagent outward show, self-important |
prologue | to withdraw or to repudiate a statment or belief, revoke |
recant | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
servile | overly submissive |
trepidation | fear, trembling, agitation |
vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |