SAT vocabulary list # 6
Terms
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- acumen
- sharpness of insight
- anachronism
- something chronologically inappropriate
- bellicose
- warlike; aggressive
- caustic
- biting, sarcastic, able to burn
- deface
- to mar the appearance of; vandalize
- euphoria
- feeling of well being or happiness
- furtive
- secret, stealthy
- gluttony
- eating and drinking to excess
- hyperbole
- purposeful exaggeration for effect
- indigenous
- native, occuring naturally in an area
- jingoism
- belligerent support of one's country
- lithe
- moving and bending with ease, graceful
- magnanimous
- generous, noble in spirit
- mettle
- courageousness; endurance
- nefarious
- viscious, evil
- obsolete
- no longer in use
- pariah
- outcast
- portly
- stout; dignified
- quell
- to crush or subdue
- revere
- to worship, regard with awe
- sobriquet
- nickname
- truncate
- to cut off, shorten by cutting
- verbose
- wordy
- wily
- clever, deceptive
- zealot
- someone passionately devoted to a cause