Barrons PSAT Sentence Completion
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- anomalous
- irregular
- auspicious
- favoring success
- urbane
- suave, elegant
- imperious
- domineering
- disparaging
- belittle
- stringent
- severe, rigid
- callous
- hardened, unfeeling
- inordinate
- unrestrained, excessive
- unassailable
- not open to attack or question
- untenable
- indefensible
- salubrious
- promoting good health
- copious
- plentiful
- deluge
- flood, rush
- acrimonious
- bitter in words or manner
- didactic
- teaching, instructional
- antiquarianism
- dealing with antiques
- assiduous
- marked by careful attention and persistent application
- enamored
- in love
- agoraphobic
- fear of being in embarassing situations
- fickle
- changeable, faithless
- swarthy
- dark, dusty
- cloister
- monestary or convent
- arboretum
- place where plantes are studied for educational purposes
- abstruse
- obscure, difficult to understand
- discursive
- rambling
- rancor
- hatred
- timorous
- fearful
- redoubtable
- causing fear or alarm
- venerate
- to honor
- renege
- go back on a promise
- profundity
- profound or deep
- recant
- to withdraw
- protract
- delay, or defer
- propogate
- pass along to offspring
- ignomious
- dishonorable
- magnamious
- lofty courageous spirit
- eurdition
- extensive knowledge
- capricious
- unpredictable
- indiosyncrasy
- individual knowledge
- expurgate
- cleanse of something offensive
- candor
- brillance
- enigma
- obscure
- conglomerate
- made of various sources
- lugubrious
- mournful
- inane
- empty, insubstantial
- dilatory
- to cause delay
- dessicate
- to dry up
- inundate
- to overflow
- desultory
- marked by lack of plan
- peripatetic
- pedestrien
- insouciance
- lighthearted, unconcern
- renegade
- deserter of one faith
- avarice
- greediness
- craven
- fainthearted
- temerity
- reckless
- culpability
- guilty, criminal
- disputatious
- controversial
- caustic
- burning, corrosive, bitter
- pretentious
- allegation of doubtful vaule
- syncophant
- servile flatterer
- congent
- having power to constrain or compel
- specious
- showy, flase look of truth
- brunt
- principal force, burden
- preponderance
- majority
- interminable
- seem to have no end
- austere
- stern
- contrivance
- artificial
- hedonisim
- pleasure or happiness is chief good in life
- pristine
- original
- soporific
- to cause sleep
- moribund
- approaching dying
- truculent
- feeling or displaying ferocity
- concilatory
- to gain by pleasing acts
- sanctum
- sacred place
- coterie
- intimate and exclusive group of people
- autocrat
- monarch with unlimited power
- harbringer
- pioneer, precursor
- fervent
- hot, glowing
- acquiesce
- to accept or comply
- founder
- to collapse, or submerge
- prodigal
- lavish, wasteful
- miser
- extremely stingy with money
- recidivist
- habitual criminal, relapses
- litigant
- engaged in a lawsuit
- recreant
- crying for mercy, coward, unfaithful
- proselyte
- new convert to a faith
- mendicant
- beggar
- pragmatist
- practical approach to problem
- insipid
- tasteless, dull
- indigent
- impoverished, deficient
- prolix
- wordy, drawn out
- terse
- polished, short
- florid
- ornate
- titular
- existing in title only
- abeyance
- tempoary inactivity
- abnegation
- self-denial, denial
- overt
- open to view, obvious
- pertinacious
- stubborn
- curtail
- shorten
- rescind
- remove, take away
- promulgate
- proclaim
- dissent
- differ in opinion
- congenial
- have same nature, disposition, and taste
- supercilious
- really proud
- fastidious
- scornful, having high standards
- cantankerous
- difficul to deal with
- chary
- cautious, hesitent
- nonchalant
- easy, unconern, indifferent
- aberration
- straying from right or normal way
- senility
- state of old age
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome, combative
- repugnant
- incompatible, inconsistent
- conducive
- to promote, or assist
- iconoclastic
- attack beliefs or institutions
- forestall
- obstruct, prevent
- galvanize
- stimulate or excite
- irreverent
- lacking proper respect or seriousness
- recast
- remodel, refashion
- unequivolocal
- clear, unquestionable