PSAT PR Set 2
Terms
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- narcissism
- excessive love of one's body or oneself
- nebulous
- vague, hazy, indistinct
- neologism
- a new word or phrase; a new usage of a word
- neophyte
- a novice or beginner
- noisome
- offensive or disgusting; stinking, noxious
- noxious
- harmful, offensive
- nuance
- a dubtly difference or distinction
- numerology
- the study of numbers for the purposes of predicting the future
- obdurate
- stubborn, insensitive, unyielding, resistant to persuasion
- obeisance
- deep reverence; a bow or curtsy
- obfuscate
- to darken or confuse
- obsequious
- fawning, subserviant, servile, excessively deferential
- odometer
- instrument that neasures how many miles one has traveled
- olfactory
- pertaining to the sense of smell
- oligarchy
- government by only a very few people
- ornate
- very fancy, usually refers to tangible objects
- palliative
- something that provides temporary relief without getting rid of the problem
- paltry
- insignificant; worthless
- panacea
- something that cures everything
- panache
- flair, verve; dashing elegance
- paragon
- a model of execellence
- peccadillo
- a minor offense or error
- pedantic
- boringly scholarly or academic; overconcerned with details
- penurious
- extremely stingy, porr, or miserly
- perfidy
- treachery
- perfunctory
- unenthusiastic, careless
- pernicious
- deadly, extremely evil
- perquisite
- a privilege that goes along with a job, a perk
- philistine
- a smugly ignorant personw ith no appreciation for intellectual or artistic matters
- piquant
- pleasantly sharp in flavor; interestingly provocative or stimulating
- plebian
- common, vulgar, low-class
- poignant
- painfully emotional, extremely moving, sharp, or astute
- polemic
- a powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue
- portent
- an oment, a sign of something coming
- potentate
- a person who possesses great power
- predilection
- a natural preference for something
- preempt
- to seize something by prior right
- prescient
- having knowledge of things before they exist or happen
- priggish
- very fussy, self righteous, high maintenance, usually regers to people
- profligate
- extravagantly wasteful; wildly immoral
- prolific
- abundatly productive, fruitful, or fertile
- promulgate
- to publicly or formally declare something
- prosaic
- dull, unimaginative
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome, combative, always ready to fight
- pulchritude
- physical beauty
- queue
- a line; to line up
- quiescent
- motionless; at rest; still
- quintessential
- being the most perfect example of
- quixotic
- idealistic to a follish or impractical defree
- quotidian
- daily; everyday; ordinary
- raze
- to completely destroy or level something
- rebuke
- to crticize sharply
- recapitulate
- to review or summarize
- recidivism
- the act of repeating an offense
- redolent
- fragrant
- renege
- to go back ona get or promise
- retrenchment
- cutting down or off, reduction
- rhetoric
- the sudy or art of using language well; the use of undue exaggeration
- sacrosanct
- sacred, held to be inviolable
- sanguine
- cheerful, optimistic, hopeful
- sardonic
- mocking, scornful
- saturnine
- gloomy or taciturn
- scrupulous
- strict, careful; hesitant for ethical reasons
- semantic
- pertaining to the meaning of words or symbols
- semaphore
- system of signaling, usually through the use of flags
- seredipity
- accidental good fortune, discovering good things without looking for them
- skinflint
- a mean, penny-pinching person
- smidgen
- a very small amount
- somber
- depressed, dismal, gloomy
- specious
- deceptively plausible or attractive; misleading; like an answer choice joe bloggs would fall for
- stand
- a group of trees
- sublime
- of great intellectual, moral, or spiritual value
- subsidy
- a gift of money
- subterfuge
- deceptive strategy used to conceal, escape, or evade
- supercilious
- haughty, patronizing
- supplicate
- to ask or beg humbly
- tenable
- valid, capable of being argued successfully
- threadbare
- falling apart, meager, poor, old
- truculent
- fierce, cruel, savagely brutal
- turbid
- unclear or opaque, lacking clairty or purity
- uncanny
- extraordinary, mysterious, uncomfortable strange
- unilateral
- involving one side only; done on behalf of one side only
- usury
- the practice of lending money at a high interest rate
- vacuous
- empty of content; lacking in ideas or intelligence
- vapid
- dull, spiritless
- verdant
- covered with green plants; leafy; inexperienced
- vernacular
- everyday speech, slang, idiom
- vestige
- a remaining bit of something, a last trace
- vilify
- to say vile things about; to defame
- wane
- to decrease in strenth or intensity; to fade away; tod ecling in power
- wanton
- malicious, unjustifiable, unprovoked, egregious
- wizened
- shriveled, withered, shrunken
- zeitgeist
- the mood or spirit of the the times
- zenith
- the highest point; peak; pinnacle