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