SAT Vocab Week 3-4
Week 3
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- aesthetic
- artistic, having to do with artistic beauty
- aloof
- keeping a distance
- archaic
- Extremely old; ancient; outdated
- assuage
- to calm
- belied
- contradicted or proved false
- contentious
- argumentative
- daunted
- frightened
- debilitated
- to weaken
- discord
- conflict, Disagreement between people
- dissemination
- the act of spreading widely, scattering
- dogmatic
- arrogant and stubborn about one's (often unproven) beliefs
- egocentric
- Self-centered, selfish
- duplicity
- deception; deceitfulness; double-dealing
- euphemism
- an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
- gluttonous
- Greedy for food and drink
- mundane
- ordinary, commonplace
- ominous
- threatening harm; showing evil
- petulant
- adj. easily irritated or annoyed
- pompous
- overly self-important in speech and manner
- precocious
- showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
- slothful
- lazy
- trivia
- something unimportant
- verbose
- wordy
- virulent
- harmful
- volatile
- changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly