SSAT vocabulary set 1 greenberg
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- current
- present, right now
- disgrace
- as a failure, a looser, in a state of being a loser
- passionate
- feeling really strongly about something.
- ambivalent
- having positive and negative feelings about something
- envious
- jealous, wanting what someone else has
- consists of
- is made up of
- searing
- really strong and hot
- strewn
- scattered, thrown around
- to infer
- is to figure out something based on hints and clues
- lush
- really rich, a lot of something
- variety
- kinds
- to gloat
- is to brag, be happy about something
- fatalistic
- you give up because you you think everything is going to go bad anyways.
- depressing
- something that makes you really sad
- to illustrate
- to describe in words
- to suggest
- is to recommend, to say that something is possible
- to dwell
- is to live somewhere
- author's tone
- his feeling about something.
- to ridicule
- to make fun of
- skeptical
- to not believe something, to doubt it
- to verify
- to prove something is true, to check something to make sure that its true
- to deteriorate
- to fall apart, to get worn out
- idyllic
- really happy, perfect
- drudgery
- something that is really boring
- analogy
- to compare something to something else
- sympathetic
- to care about someone or something else, to feel bad for them
- to visualize
- to be able to picture something in your head
- to draw
- to make a picture of
- to draw (definition 2)
- to take from
- primarily
- mostly