Arnhold English IV PSAT Vocabulary List 7
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- Acumen
- keenness of judgement
- amoral
- without moral standards
- asperity
- harshness severity in temper
- belie
- to disprove or demonstrate to be false' to contradict appearances
- bulwark
- a strong defense
- cavil
- to find petty fault
- compatible
- agreeable consistent
- conruscant
- sparkling
- demarcate
- to establish the limits of
- diminution
- reduction or decrease dcue to outside influence
- dudgeon
- sullen resentment or anger
- emoluments
- payments
- evince
- to prove conclusively or demonstrate
- feral
- wild and uncontrolled
- gauche
- clumsy
- heresy
- unorthodox doctrine
- impinge
- to collide
- importune
- to plead with
- ineluctable
- unavoidable; impossible to overturn, inevitable
- infernal
- fiendish, devilish
- introspection
- self-examination
- inure
- harden, to become accustomed to
- lassitude
- sluggishness
- locution
- style of speaking
- mellifluous
- flowing sweetly and smoothly
- mnemonic
- meant to aid in memory (mnemonic devices aid in learning)
- myriad
- innumerable
- onerous
- burdensome, troublesome
- opus
- a major work of art, music, or literature
- penury
- extreme poverty
- phlegmatic
- sluggish, unemotional, stolid, stoic
- posit
- to stipulate
- primordial
- original
- propound
- to offer (a theory) for reviewq or consideration; to present
- recondite
- difficult ot understand
- replete
- to fill abundantely
- ruminate
- to ponder or review mentally
- satorial
- pertaining to clothes
- sinecure
- position not requiring much work
- solipsism
- the practice of extreme self centeredness
- talisman
- a charm
- tome
- a thic, or heavy book
- tout
- to publicis eor to praise highly
- vagary
- whim; a capricious or eccentric idea or action
- waylay
- to wait in line for