sat vocab II
Terms
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- exclusive
- shutting out; limited; sometimes t a select few, elitist
- alleviate
- to lessen the pain or severity of something; to make something more bearable; to mitigate
- apathetic
- not caring about something or an outcome. one way or the other; indifferent
- prominint
- standing out; well-known; renonwed; acclaimed; conspicuous
- corroborate
- to support or back up; to confirm;to provide evidence for; to substantiate
- vapid
- bland and uninteresting; unexciting; dull; uninspired; prosaic; banal; trite; hackneyed
- vicarious
- living through the experience of another; second-hand
- circumspect
- careful;cautious; prudent; wary
- parochial
- narrow-minded; having a limited outlook; provincial
- engaging
- interesting almost to the point of exciting; tending to attract and occuppy someone's attention; compelling
- sanguine
- hopeful; buoyant; optimistic
- unprecedented
- without precedent; highly unusual; remarkable; never before seen; momentous
- urbane
- sophisticated; having highly refined manners
- surreptitious
- not out in the open; sneaky; clandestine
- encompass
- to include; to encircle; to incorporate