SAT vocab 1-24-08
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- abnormal
-
not normal
- acquisition
- The act of gaining; anything gained
- affluence
- Wealth
- appraisal
- setting a price; an estimated price
- appreciable
- important enough to be noticed
- aptitude
-
a natural talent or ability
- arbitrary
- random
- articulation
-
clear pronounciation; a joining of the parts
- cataclysm
- a disaster; sudden shift in the earth's crust, causing an earthquake or a volcano
- caveat
-
a warning
- coincidental
-
occurring or resulting from coincidence
- commence
-
to begin
- credible
- trustworthy
- decomposition
- the act of decomposing
- epidermis
- skin/ outer layer of stems, roots, leaves
- erosive
-
causing to wear away slowly
- filibuster
- a long speech trying to prevent the passage of a legislation.
- flotilla
- a small fleet of boats
- hallucinogen
- a drug that causes hallucinations
- headless
- having no head; having no leader
- hermetic
- airtight
- impromptu
-
unrehearsed
- indomitable
- unconquerable; not able to be overcome
- iridescent
-
showing a display of rainbow colors
- junta
-
a secret group
- labyrinth
- a place full of intricate passageways
- longevity
-
duration of life; long life
- masochism
-
a disorder in which a person feels pleasure in being mistreated
- mutinous
- rebellious
- neural
- relating to the nervous system
- ocular
-
related to the eye
- plethora
-
more than enough
- pulverize
- crush into powder
- raconteur
-
one who can tell stories well
- refractory
-
stubborn
- remunerate
-
to pay for
- scrutinize
-
to examine to observe with great care
- subtle
- so faint that its hard to be noticed or understood
- validate
-
to make or declare legally valid
- vernal
- relating to the spring