SAT Vocab 2 2
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- Aspersion; noun
- false rumor, damaging report, slander
- Assiduous; adj
- diligent, persistent, hard-working
- Assuage; verb
- to make less severe; to ease; to relieve
- Astringent; adj
- harsh, severe, stern
- Atrocious; adj
- monstrous, shockingly bad, wicked
- Atrophy; noun
- to waste away, to wither from disuse
- Attenuate; verb
- to weaken; to make thin or slender
- Augury; noun
- prophecy, prediction of events
- August; adj
- dignified, awe inspiriing, venerable
- Ausipisious; adj
- having favorable prosecpects, promising
- Averice; adj
- greed
- Axiom; noun
- Premise, postulates, self-evident truth
- Baleful; adj
- harmful, with evil intentions
- Banal; adj
- trite, overly common
- Bastion; noun
- fortification, stronghold
- Belabor; verb
- to insist repeatedly or harp on
- Beleaguer; verb
- to harass, plague
- Belie; verb
- to misrepresent; to expose as false
- Bellicose; adj
- warlike, aggressive
- Belligerent; adj
- hostile, tending to fight
- Benighted; adj
- unenlightened
- Bequeath; verb
- to give or leave through a will; to hand down
- Beseech; verb
- to beg, plead, implore
- Bilk; verb
- to cheat, defraud
- Blandish; verb
- to coax with flattery
- Blight; verb
- to afflict; to destroy
- Bonhomie; noun
- good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer
- Boon; noun
- blessing, something to be thankful for
- Bourgeois; adj
- middle class
- Breach; noun
- act of breaking, violation