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12th #5 a
Castle Senior English SAT #5 Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| copious | In plentiful supply, large in quantity or number |
| dearth | an inadequate supply; a scarcity; lack |
| eloquent | Extremely expressive and persuasive (speech) |
| jargon | Specialized language of people in the same profession; unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish; any talk or writing that one does not understand. |
| levity | lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness. |
| meander | to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course, to move aimlessly; wander lazily |
| peripheral | concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficialaspects of the subject in question. |
| substantiate | To prove the truth of |
| unobtrusive | Not readily noticeable or eye-catching |
| vacillate | to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute To sway indecisively between two opinions |