SAT Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition | |
Aesthetic | relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art | He is considered to have aesthetic tastes because he loves beauty and the arts. |
Aloof | apart, indifferent | Al remained aloof, separating himself from the rest of the party guests. |
Archaic | antiquited, old, out of use | Words such as "thou", which are no longer part of normal vocabulary, are archaic. |
Assuage | to ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm | Your kind words should assuage her suffering. The medicine should assuage his pain. |
Belie | to contradict, to give false impression | Her mean words seemed to belie all the wonderful things I heard about her. |
Contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy | Giles Corey was considered contentious by his Salem neighbors because he enjoyed quarreling. |
Daunt | to intimidate, to dismay | I am not daunted by your threats. |
Debilitate | to weaken, to enfeeble | I was debilitated by my bout with pneumonia. |
Discord | lack of agreement, tension, strife | There was a lot of discord in my family when my 16 year old sister said she was pregnant and getting married. |
Dissemination | the act of spreading widely; scattering | Today, the dissemination of information comes primarily through the internet. |
Dogmatic | strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner | Religious fundamentalists can be dogmatic in their beliefs. |
Duplicity | double-dealing, hypocrisy | His duplicity was exposed when the girl he was seeing discovered he was married. |
Egocentric | self-centered, selfish | Egocentric people rarely show any concern for others. |
Euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive | People like using the euphemism "passed away" instead of the harsher term "died." |
Gluttonous | greedy for food and drink | I am so gluttonous that I would have trouble dieting. |
Mundane | ordinary, commonplace | After I take care of these mundane matters, we can do something exciting. |
Ominous | threatening | The ominous clouds were harbingers of the tornado. |
Petulance | unreasonable touchiness or irritability | Petulance is the trait exhibited by children who don't get what they want. |
Pompous | exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic | The pompous teacher enjoyed telling his class how many awards he won, and how great a teacher he was. |
Precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurence | He was such a precocious child because he could read, write, walk, and talk at age 2. |
Slothful | lazy, indolent | My daughter is so slothful because she prefers to lie in bed all day. |
Trivia | insignificant matters | The teacher is looking for substance, not trivia, in the students' essays. |
Verbose | wordy, very talkative | That professor is so verbose, it takes him an hour to explain concepts that should take 15 minutes. |
Virulent | extremely poisonous; hateful | The doctor prescribed a lot of medication to arrest the virulent infection. |
Volatile | quickly changeable, easily vaporized | Because of his volatile temper, one must use caution in dealing with him. |
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Mr. Battaglini
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