PSAT 8
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- Incontrovertible
- Indisputable
- Corroboration
- Confirmation
- Magnanimity
- Having a lofly, generous, and couageous spirit
- Circumspect
- Careful to consider cosequences, coutious, prudent
- Irascible
- Irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
- Empirical
- Based on abservation or experiment and not on theory
- Proliferation
- An increase in number, multiplication
- Hyperbole
- Obvious exaggeration
- Buttress
- A support or prop
- Extraneous
- Not essential or vital
- Homogeneous
- Of the same kind
- Zeal
- Enthusiasm, fervor
- Sublime
- Exalted, noble, uplofting
- Surreptitous
- Secret, clandestine, stealthy
- Obsequious
- Overly attentive loike a sycophant, servile
- Veracity
- Decotion to the turth
- Affinity
- A likeyness, a natural relationship, a kinship
- Fallow
- Inactive, plowed but not sowed
- Blasphemous
- Irreverent, profane
- Acquiese
- To give in, to cormply
- Despotic
- Ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical
- Scrupulous
- Very principled, very carful, and conscientious
- Laconic
- Using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude
- Deplete
- To use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value
- Emaciated
- Very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wastion away