psat vocab 51-100
Terms
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- assail
- assault
- assiduous
- diligent
- assuage
- to lessen
- astute
- wise; shrewd; keen
- attribute
- essential quality
- attrition
- gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the work force w/o firing employees
- augment
- increase
- aura
- distinctive atmosphere; luminous glow
- auspicious
- favoring success; fortunate
- austere
- forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
- averse
- reluctant
- aversion
- firm dislike
- avid
- greedy; eager for
- balk
- foil or thwart
- banal
- hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
- bane
- cause of ruin; curse
- begrudge
- resent
- beguile
- mislead or delude, ceat; pass time
- belie
- contradict, give a false impression, misrepresent
- blandishment
- flattery
- blare
- loud, harsh roar; screech
- blasphemy
- irreverence; sacrileg; cursing
- blatant
- flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
- blithe
- gay; joyous; carefree
- brackish
- somewhat salty
- brandish
- wave around; flourish
- brevity
- conciseness
- brine
- salt water; sea water (as opposed to fresh)
- bungle
- mismanage; blunder
- cajole
- coax; wheedle
- camaraderie
- good-fellowship
- candor
- frankness; open honestry
- cant
- insincere, hypocritical speech; "pious" talk; jargon of thieves
- capricious
- unpredictable; fickle, labile
- carping
- finding fault
- castigation
- punishment, severe criticism
- caustic
- burning; sarcastically biting
- cessation
- stopping
- chaff
- husks and stems left over when grain has been threshed; worthless, leftover by-products
- chagrin
- vexation; disappointment
- chary
- cautious; sparing or restrained about giving
- chasm
- abyss
- chauvinist
- blindly devoted patriot
- chicanery
- trickery; deception
- circumscribe
- limit; confine
- circumspect
- prudent, discrete, cafeful to consider all cirumstances and consequences
- clemency
- disposition to be lenient; mildness, as of the weather
- coalesce
- combine; fuse
- cogitate
- think over
- collosal
- huge