SAT English Vocab #8
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- oblequious
- overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile
- surreptitious
- secret, clandestine, stealthy
- blasphemous
- irreverent, profane
- deplete
- to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value
- homogeneous
- of the same kind
- incontrovertible
- indisputable
- Laconic
- using a minimum of words, concise to the point of seeming rude
- scrupulous
- very principled, very careful and concientious
- extraneous
- not essential or vital
- veracity
- devotion to the truth
- circumspect
- careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent
- fallow
- inactive, plowed but not sowed
- corroboration
- confirmation
- despotic
- ruling oppressively and absoluty, tyrannical
- buttress
- a support or prop
- empirical
- based on observation or experiment and not on theory
- sublime
- exalted, noble, upliftin
- zeal
- enthusiasm, fervor
- proliferation
- an increase in number, multiplication
- magnanimity
- having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit
- hyperbole
- obvious exageration
- irascible
- irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
- affinity
- a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship
- emaciated
- very thin
- acquiesce
- to give in, to comply