SAT Vocabulary Words 2
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- Corpulence
- Obesity
- Redolent
- Aromatic, emitting fragrance; suggestive, reminiscent
- cerebral
- relating to the brain
- debacle
- sudden,disastrous collaspe,falldown,or defeat
- haranguing
- long pompous speech
- conciliatory
- to overcome the distrust of, reconcile
- robust
- vigorous,healthy,strong,sturdy,rough/crude
- inscrutable
- difficult to understand, abstruse
- insular
- relating to an island
- toadies
- persons who flater others for self seeking reasons
- adulation
- excessive flattery/admiration
- sycophants
- servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering infulential people
- arable
- fit for cultivation
- palliative
- relieving/soothing symptons of disease w/o effecting a cure
- litigious
- tending to engage in lawsuits
- dearth
- scare supply, a lack
- opacity
- opague, neither transparent nor translucent; dullness of the mind
- erratic
- wandering; lacking consistency
- idiosynctratic
- peculiarity
- dalliance
- playful flirtation, dawdling
- infelicity
- something inappropriate/unpleasing
- boorishness
- rude and clumsy
- fastidious
- meticulous attention to detail
- vindictive
- revengeful, spiteful
- petulant
- irritable/ill tempered
- treacly
- overly sweet
- cursory
- passing a glance, to scan and pay little attention to detail
- prosaic
- matter of fact, straightfowardness, dull in imagination/spirit
- meticulous
- extremely careful and precise
- consecrated
- to declare/set apart as sacred
- quelled
- to supress; to pacify
- equitable
- just & impartial, fair
- eulogy
- speech/written tribute
- miserly
- extremely stingy
- monumental
- larger than life
- superfluous
- beyond requirement
- doggedness
- stubbornly perservering
- vacillate
- to hesitate
- spurious
- not genuine
- eclectic
- combining elements from a variety of sources
- invidious
- envious, tending to rouse ill will
- clandestine
- kept/done in secret
- reticent
- reluctant, unwilling, reserved
- sanguine
- red color; optimisitic, cheerful, confident
- intransigence
- uncompromising
- autonomous
- independent in mind/judgement
- ambigous
- doubtful/uncertain
- nostalgia
- bittersweet longing for something of the past; homesickness
- disparging
- to belittle; to speak in a disrespectful way
- ambivalence
- indecisiveness/uncertainity