SAT Vocabulary Group 2
my SECOND group of SAT words. joyyy. =//
Terms
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- bulwark
- fortification; barricade; wall
- lance
- spear; spike; javelin
- decoy
- lure; trap; trick
- poseur
- someone who puts on an act
- hidebound
- rigid in opinions
- deference
- respect
- reticent
- restrained; holding something back; uncommunicative
- obsequious
- servile; submissive
- torpid
- inactive; lazy; stagnant
- polemical
- causing debate or argument
- timorous
- cowardly; fearful
- cynical
- believing that people act only out of selfish motives
- hone
- sharpen; increase; whet
- lax
- careless; not strict
- bourgeois
- middle class
- hypochondriac
- a person obsessed with health; having imaginary illnesses
- heresy
- against orthodox opinion
- hiatus
- interruption; pause
- portent
- a warning sign; omen
- adroit
- skillful
- posthumous
- after death
- histrionic
- theatrical; exaggerated
- pontificate
- speak pompously or dogmatically
- languish
- decay; fade away; get weaker
- espouse
- promote; take up; support
- larceny
- theft; robbery; stealing
- rigor
- thoroughness
- broach(verb)
- start to discuss; approach
- obviate
- avoid; make unnecessary
- languid
- tired; slow
- adulation
- strong admiration; worship
- lavish
- on a grand scale; wasteful
- adamant
- forceful; inflexible
- boorish
- ill-mannered
- revere
- worship
- rife
- common
- torpor
- dormancy; sluggishness; inactivity
- defunct
- no longer in existence
- adversity
- hardship
- acrophobia
- fear of heights
- defoliate
- cause leaves to fall off
- tirade
- stream of verbal abuse
- esoteric
- obscure and difficult to understand
- odious
- hateful
- hoary
- old
- acrid
- sharp; pungent
- erratic
- wandering; irregular
- ponderous
- weighty; slow and heavy
- epitomized
- typified; characterized; personified
- portend
- foretell
- eulogy
- praise
- acuity
- sharpness (mental or visual)
- epistle
- a letter (form of communication)
- restorative
- a tonic
- affable
- friendly; social; easygoing
- hyperbole
- grossly exaggerated speech
- tome
- large book
- equivocate
- speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth
- obstreperous
- noisy and boisterous
- retention
- preservation; withholding