Power Plus for the New SAT Book 3 Unit 3
These are vocabulary study words for AP Language and Compositon
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| 121289536 | orifice | n. mouth; opening |  |
| 121289537 | hallow | v. to make holy |  |
| 121289538 | perdition | n. damnation; ruin; hell | |
| 121289539 | chaff | n. worthless matter |  |
| 121289540 | aesthetic | adj. pertaining to beauty |  |
| 121289541 | empirical | adj. based on practical experience rather than theory | |
| 121289542 | germane | adj. relevant; fitting | |
| 121289543 | hermetic | adj. tightly sealed | |
| 121289544 | meretricious | adj. attractive in a cheap, flashy way |  |
| 121289545 | querulous | adj. Complaining, grumbling, peevish | |
| 121289546 | flaccid | adj. Flabby | |
| 121289547 | hospice | n. a shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill or destitute | |
| 121289548 | egregious | adj. remarkably bad; outrageous | |
| 121289549 | ratiocinate | v. to reason, to think | |
| 121289550 | foment | v. to stir up; to incite | |
| 121289551 | salient | adj. significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest | |
| 121289552 | recant | v. to withdraw or disavow a statement or opinion | |
| 121289553 | jocular | adj. humorous; lighthearted | |
| 121289554 | palliate | v. to ease; to lessen; to soothe | |
| 121289555 | malleable | adj. capable of being changed; easily shaped | |
| 121289556 | recreant | n. a coward; a traitor | |
| 121289557 | affinity | n. an attraction to | |
| 121289558 | impalpable | adj. unable to be felt; intangible | |
| 121289559 | fiscal | adj. pertaining to finances | |
| 121289560 | regale | v. to delight with something pleasing or amusing | |
| 121289561 | miscreant | n. a vicious person | |
| 121289562 | flaggelate | v. to whip; to lash | |
| 121289563 | lascivious | adj. lustful or lewd | |
| 121289564 | flout | v. to ridicule; to show contempt for | |
| 121289565 | salacious | adj. obscene; lustful | |
| 124627546 | rebuke | v. to scold; to blame | |
| 124627547 | nonentity | n.a person or thing of no importance | |
| 124627548 | sang-froid | n. calmness; composure or cool self-possession | |
| 124627549 | desultory | adj. wandering from subject to subject | |
| 124627550 | hector | v. to bully; to pester | |
| 124627551 | pandemic | adj. general; widespread |  |
| 124627552 | coalesce | v. to blend; to merge | |
| 124627553 | beguile | v. to deceive; to charm; to enchant | |
| 124627554 | ennui | n. boredom; a weariness resulting from a lack of interest | |
| 124627555 | hiatus | n. a pause or gap | |
| 124627556 | lambent | adj. softly bright or radiant; moving lightly over a surface | |
| 124627557 | ergo | conj. therefore | |
| 124627558 | hubris | n. excessive pride or self-confidence | |
| 124627559 | pecuniary | adj. pertaining to money; financial |  |
| 124627560 | sibilant | adj. a hissing sound | |
| 126970370 | incendiary | adj. causing to excite or inflame | |
| 126970371 | apotheosis | n. the finest example | |
| 126970372 | contiguous | adj. making contact or touching at some point; side by side | |
| 126970373 | auspicious | adj.signaling favorable or promising results | |
| 126970374 | vociferous | adj. marked by noise; loud | |
| 126970375 | avuncular | adj. similar to an uncle | |
| 126970376 | proletariat | n. working class or lower class | |
| 126970377 | tenacious | strongly held; not easy to separate | |
| 126970378 | specious | adj. deceptive or misleading; false syn: accurate | |
| 126970379 | refractory | adj.unmanageable or difficult to control | |
| 126970380 | inimitable | adj. cannot be imitated | |
| 126970381 | malfeasance | n. poor conduct or wrongdoing, especially on the part of a public official | |
| 126970382 | platonic | adj. marked by the absence of romance or physical attraction | |
| 126970383 | pontificate | adj. speak in a pretentiously dignified or dogmatic way syn: orate; sermonize | |
| 126970384 | prurient | adj. given to lustful or lewd thoughts syn: obscene; [salacious] | |
| 129396946 | insuperable | adj. not able to be overcome syn: indomitable; invulnerable | |
| 129396947 | apex | n. the highest point (of something) syn:acme;pinnacle;summit/ant:bottom | |
| 129396948 | acrid | adj. marked by a sharp taste or smell; bitter | |
| 129396949 | fulminate | v. to voice disapproval or protest syn: denounce | |
| 129396950 | jejune | adj. without interest; dull syn: insipid; routine/ ant:interesting; dramatic | |
| 129396951 | hegemony | n. influence or domination over syn: dominion; reign | |
| 129396952 | truculent | adj. marked by ferocity syn:ravenous; savage/ ant:tame; gentle | |
| 129396953 | credulity | n. willingness to believe too readily syn: faith; credence/ ant:skepticism | |
| 129396954 | dross | n. refuse or waste syn: trash |  |
| 129396955 | verisimilitude | n. the appearance of truth syn: authenticity; realism | |
| 129396956 | viscous | adj. having a thick or sticky consistency like glue/ syn: glutinous; adhesive |  |
| 129396957 | psychosomatic | adj. of or relating to symptoms caused by mental or emotional problems | |
| 129396958 | abnegation | n. unwillingness to admit reality or truth; denial/ syn:rejection/ ant:acceptance; admission | |
| 129396959 | polyglot | n. someone with knowledge of two or more languages | |
| 129396960 | gravitas | n. seriousness syn: weightiness | |
| 131897920 | intractable | adj. difficult to manipulate or govern/ syn: unmanageable; rigid | |
| 131897921 | disseminate | v. to disperse or scatter/syn:distribute | |
| 131897922 | sinecure | n. a job that provides income but requires little or no work | |
| 131897923 | tendentious | adj. biased in perspective; preferring one view over another/syn: jaundiced; partisan/Ant:indifferent | |
| 131897924 | politic | adj. prudent or shrewdly tactful syn: sagacious; cunning | |
| 131897925 | extemporaneous | adj. done without planning; spur of the moment; unexpected; makeshift/syn: impromptu; spontaneous | |
| 132524622 | discursive | adj. jumping from one topic to another with out any order or reason syn/digressive; rambling | |
| 132524623 | diaspora | n. a dispersion of people from their homeland syn/displacement | |
| 132524624 | requiem | n. a religious service or song for the deceased | |
| 132524625 | traduce | v. to slander someone's reputation syn/ smear; besmirch | |
| 132524626 | acerbic | adj. sarcastic in mood, tone, or temper; harsh | |
| 132524627 | beatitude | n. a state of happiness or joy syn/bliss; euphoria ant/agony | |
| 132524628 | maladroit | adj. not resourceful or cunning; inept syn/ incompetent | |
| 132524629 | androgynous | adj. having features of both sexes; suitable for both male and female | |
| 132524630 | augur | n. someone who predicts future events according to omens syn/clairvoyant; oracle | |
| 134858654 | bon mot | n. a witty remark or saying syn: quip | |
| 134858655 | peon | n. various laborers who are generally landless syn: serf; servant |  |
| 134858656 | plutocrat | n. a member of the controlling upper-class ant: plebian |  |
| 134858657 | plenary | adj. complete in every way; full syn:thorough;entire ant:incomplete; lacking | |
| 134858658 | digress | v.t. to deviate from the original subject or course syn: stray | |
| 134858659 | furlough | n. a leave of absence syn: vacation; liberty | |
| 134858660 | misogyny | n. a hatred toward females | |
| 134858661 | stolid | adj. showing or having little or no emotion; unemotional syn: impassive; stoic ant:expressive; agitated | |
| 134858662 | succor | n. something that gives relief or aid syn: comfort; ease ant: aggravation; annoyance |  |
| 134858663 | travesty | n. poor representation or imitation; distortion syn: perversion; sham | |
| 134858664 | xeric | adj. characterized by or adapted to a dry habitat |  |
| 134858665 | clandestine | adj. marked by secrecy syn: undercover; hidden | |
| 134858666 | potboiler | n. a poorly done artistic work, often for quick profit | |
| 134858667 | redoubtable | adj. arousing fear syn:dreadful; dire ant:wonderful; fortunate | |
| 134858668 | vignette | n. a short, descriptive literary sketch |