SAT 4th 6 week
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- acrimony
- words or behavior filled with harshness, anger, or bitterness
- affable
- friendly, easygoing
- avarice
- greed
- bequeath
- to leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit
- cacophony
- a collection of sounds or voices that donÂ’t blend well; harshness of sound
- capacious
- large; roomy; spacious
- choler
- anger
- deprecate
- disapprove; belittle
- desultory
- lacking a plan; aimless
- enervate
- to sap the strength; weaken
- eulogize
- to praise highly; extol
- foment
- to stir into action; rouse; incite
- hackneyed
- unoriginal; trite
- heed
- to notice; pay attention to
- impetuous
- making quick decisions and taking sudden action; hasty; impulsive
- indigent
- very poor
- innocuous
- harmless; inoffensive
- jaunty
- lively; perky; sprightly
- juxtapose
- to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
- laconic
- quiet; of few words; terse
- lament
- to express sorrow; complain
- lofty
- of a great height; noble
- malign
- to say evil or harmful things about someone; defame; vilify
- myriad
- a large number; many
- nefarious
- extremely evil
- obviate
- to eliminate the need for something; to make unnecessary
- onerous
- burdensome; oppressive
- parity
- equality or equivalence; balance among a group of rivals
- phlegmatic
- calm; unemotional
- precocious
- mature at a young age
- querulous
- constantly complaining
- redolent
- strongly scented; fragrant
- salubrious
- promoting health
- seditious
- trying to incite a revolt against an authority figure
- specious
- having a false or misleading appearance; seemingly true, but actually false
- tangent
- a comment that is off the main topic
- tenuous
- thin; flimsy
- undulate
- to move in a wavy manner
- vacuous
- empty; stupid; purposeless
- zenith
- the highest point; apex