SAT Vocab 5 2
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- scuttle
- to sink; to scrap or discards
- fallacious
- containing or based on faulty reasoning, misleading
- malefactor
- a wrongdoer
- paradigm
- a model, way of looking at things
- malinger (v.)
- to deliberately avoid work
- proclivity
- (n) tendency towards
- charlatan
- a trickster who claims knowledge he doesn't have, fraud
- unwitting
- not delibreate, unconscious
- chary
-
wary of, cautious about
reluctant to give
Ex) a person chary of compliments - dilatory
- slow, falling behind in one's work
- prodigal
- wasteful, extravagant
- sequester
- to isolate
- upbraid
- to scold, tell off, reprimand
- antediluvian
- outdated, prehistoric, old-fashioned
- fastidious
-
overly particular, finicky
Ex) Fastidious workmanship - indolence
-
habitual laziness, sloth
Ex)The deadly sin of indolence - serendipity
- fortunate coincidence, unsought discovery
- chicanery
-
deception by trickery, subterfuge
Ex)Using skilfuly chicanery, the student was able to conceal the fact that she had cheated. - upshot
-
outcome
Ex) The game's upshot was not determined until the last second. - anthropocentrism
-
putting human beings at the center of one's philosophy
Ex) Big Business preaches a form of anthropocentrism that has no regard for our natural surroundings. - chimerical
- changeable, unstable
- urbane
- sophisticated, suave
- choleric
- easily angered
- fecund
-
fertile
Ex) The scientist was fecund in the bedroom and fecund in the library. - felicitous
- admirably suited, apt
- ineffable
-
cannot be expressed in words
Ex) My feelings toward you are ineffable; not even Shakespeare would be able to express them verbally. - martinet
- person who believes in strict discipline
- proletarian
- member of the working class
- apochryphal
- of doubtful origin
- parry
- to deflect or ward off; to avoid