PSAT Week 8
PSAT Vocab Week 8
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- deplete
- to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value
- laconic
- using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude
- emaciated
- very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wasting away
- buttress
- support, prop
- zeal
- enthusiasm, fervor
- acquiesce
- to give in, to comply
- corroboration
- confirmation
- incontrovertible
- indisputable
- affinity
- a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship
- obsequious
- overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile
- homogeneous
- of the same kind
- despotic
- ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical
- veracity
- devotion to the truth
- magnanimity
- having a lofty, generous, and courteous spirit
- fallow
- inactive, plowed but not sowed
- irascible
- irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
- empirical
- based on observation or experiment and not on theory
- blasphemous
- irreverent, profane
- hyperbole
- obvious exaggeration
- scrupulous
- very principled, very careful and conscientious
- extraneous
- not essential or vital
- sublime
- exalted, noble, uplifting
- circumspect
- careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent
- surreptitious
- secret, clandestine, stealthy
- proliferation
- an increase in numbers, multiplication