P/SAT Lesson 8 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
acquiesce | to give in, to comply |
affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship |
blasphemous | irreverent, profane |
buttress | a support or prop |
circumspect | careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent |
corroboration | confirmation |
deplete | to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value |
despotic | ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical |
emaciated | very thin (usually as the result of starvation), wasting away |
extraneous | not essential or vital |
fallow | inactive, plowed but not sowed |
homogenous | of the same kind |
hyperbole | obvious exaggeration |
incontrovertible | indisputable |
irascible | irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross |
laconic | using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude |
magnanimity | having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit |
obsequious | overy attentive, like a sycophant, servile |
proliferation | an increase in number, multiplication |
scrupulous | very principled, very careful and concsientious |
sublime | exalted, noble, uplifting |
surreptitious | secret, clandestine, stealthy |
veracity | devotion to the truth |
zeal | enthusiasm, fevor |
empirical | based on observation or experiment and not on theory |
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