SAT vocab chapter 17
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- abstemious
- to be moderate in eating and drinking
- admonish
- to caution or advise against doing something.
- amity
- friendship
- bastion
- a forticication, fort, strong hold
- callous
- hardened, thick skin, insensitive, rough
- clemency
- leniency
- Debunk
- to point out the falseness.
- diffuse
- to spread something out in all directions
- dupe
- to trick, fool, deceive
- exorcise
- to get rid of something troublesome. (usually spirits)
- finesse
- to have delicate skill
- humility
- the art of being humble
- imperious
- to be extremely over-bearing.
- larcency
- stealing someone else's property or goods.
- mirth
- merriment and laughter
- mollify
- to soothe
- neologism
- the study of a new word
- orthodox
- very traditional, conforming to standards.
- Plight
- a troublesome or adverse situation
- repertoire
- a list of works (music) to be performed.
- rupture
- to burst, break apart
- solicitous
- to be worried or concerned.
- stolid
- to show little emotion.
- tempestuous
- stormy, troubled, volitle (usually relationships)
- untenable
- unable to be defended