SAT vocab pg2
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- contemptuous
- feeling hatred; scornful
- context
- circumstances of a situation; environment
- conviction
- a fixed or strong belief
- convoluted
- intricate; complex
- copious
- plentiful; having a large quantity
- cordial
- friendly; sincere
- coup
- a brilliantly executed plan
- cryptic
- difficult to comprehend
- decorous
- proper; marked by good taste
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect; injurous
- derived
- copied or adapted from a source
- despotic
- exercising absolute power; tyrannical
- dictatorial
- domineering; oppressively overbearing
- didactic
- intended to instruct
- dilatory
- habitually late
- dilettante
- one with an amateurish understanding of a field of knowledge
- diligent
- marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
- discourse
- verbal expression or exchange; conversation
- discredit
- to cause to be doubted
- disdain
- (n)contempt, scorn (v) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
- disingenuous
- not straightforward; crafty
- disparage
- to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
- disparity
- inequality in age, rank or degree; difference
- dogged
- stubbornly persevering
- dogmatic
- stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs