saturday SAT
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- acerbic
- mean in tone
- archipelago
- a group of islands
- balked
- to stop and refuse to go on
- bane
- a cause of death, destruction, or ruin
- banter
- casual conversation
- benign
- kind
- blandishment
- to coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole
- bolster
- to support
- braggart
- someone with a big ego
- buffers
- something used absorb shock or scruity
- bureaucracy
- an inefficient organization
- capitulate
- to give in without resistance
- celebrity
- fame
- charlatan
- someone who is a quack; a fake
- clandestine
- kept or done in secret. often in order to conceal or illicit or improper purpose
- complement
- something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection
- consign
- to assign to
- contiguous
- adjacent to one another
- daunt
- to discourage
- decipher
- to decode
- defer
- to put off until later
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect; injurious
- discomfiture
- frustratin or disappointment
- discount
- to disregard
- disingenuous
- not straightforward or candid; crafty
- dispossess
- to deprive ownership of
- dubious
- doubtful
- elucidate
- to make clear
- energize
- to give energy to; to vitalize
- ensconced
- to settle securely or comfortably
- entreaty
- an earnest request; plea
- esoteric
- hard to understand
- exacerbating
- irritating
- exclusive
- not divided or shared with others
- fashion
- to adapt; as to a purpose or an occasion; accomodate
- flourish
- to prosper
- fortitude
- strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage
- geochronologist
- someone who tries to establish the chronology of the earth's history by analyzing terrestrial materials
- gibberish
- unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing
- graceful
- showing grace of movement, form or proportion
- hamper
- to prevent the free movement, action, or progress of
- illusory
- not actual
- impede
- to slow down
- incessantly
- continuing without interruption
- inconceivable
- doesn't seem possible
- indignant
- anger aroused by injustice
- indiscriminate
- not picky
- indispensable
- essential
- infinitesmal
- very small
- laud
- to priae; acclaim
- liability
- a bad thing; something that can hurt you
- lucrative
- producing wealth; profitable
- magisterial
- authoritative
- marginal
- of lower quality or ability
- matriarchal
- society run by women
- mediocre
- inferior quality
- mnemonic
- a trick to help one remember a lengthy set of information
- obsession
- the overdoing of something
- ominous
- threatening
- pacifistic
- opposing conflict
- patronage
- financial support from a benefactor
- pernicious
- deadly; dangerous
- pervasive
- widespread; everywhere
- plummet
- to drop very quickly
- precipitate
- acting with or marked by excessive haste and lack of due deliveration
- predation
- the capturing of prey as a means of maintaining life
- promulgation
- public declaration
- propensity
- tendency
- quip
- a witty, offhand remark
- reaffirm
- to affirm or assert again
- recalcitrant
- marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance
- reconcile
- to bring together
- revitalize
- to impart new life or vigor
- sensationalism
- the method of using emotional reaction (like fear) to convince
- sham
- something false or empty that is purported to be genuine; a spurious imitation
- sublime
- impressive; inspiring awe
- subtle
- not imeediately obvious
- summation
- a summary
- tenet
- an opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization
- transitory
- something that is continuously become something else
- undaunted
- not discouraged or disheartened
- uneven
- not even
- ungainly
- lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy
- vanguard
- the foremost or leading position in a trend or movement
- vituperative
- associated with verbal abuse