SAT October 21, 2006 Flashcards
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423503777 | categorical | definite, pertinent, imperative | |
423503778 | caustic | harsh/burning, vitriolic, acrid | |
423503779 | charlatan | fraud, chicane, sophistry, evasive, unscrupulous | |
423503780 | diatribe | verbally forceful, tirade | |
423503781 | diffident | shy, reticent | |
423503782 | disconcerting | disturbing, abash | |
423503783 | disillusionment | disenchantment | |
423503784 | earnest | fervent, ardent | |
423503785 | ebullient | overjoyed, elated, jubilant | |
423503786 | euphemism | floridness, grandiloquence | |
423503787 | excoriation | contempt, malediction | |
423503788 | to extol | praise, laud, tout, accolade | |
423503789 | to garner | harvest, amass | |
423503790 | garrulous | gregarious, loquacious | |
423503791 | illusory | deceptive, mendacious | |
423503792 | inconspicuous | unnoticeable | |
423503793 | indulgent | giving, compliant | |
423503794 | to invoke | call upon, beseech, request, solicit | |
423503795 | irrevocable | fixed, indelible | |
423503796 | itinerant | traveler, migrant | |
423503797 | lofty | proud, elated | |
423503798 | mercenary | charlatan, paid soldier | |
423503799 | meticulous | scrupulous, precise, punctilious | |
423503800 | moratorium | suspension, halt | |
423503801 | to palliate | relieve, conciliate, alleviate | |
423503802 | portent | indication, foreboding, omen | |
423503803 | provincial | hick, inhabitant | |
423503804 | quibble | quip, equivocation | |
423503805 | to rebuff | reject, insult | |
423503806 | recidivist | repeating criminal | |
423503807 | repartee | retort | |
423503808 | sanguine | upbeat | |
423503809 | soliloquy | monologue | |
423503810 | stopgap | temporary, cursory, fleeting | |
423503811 | surly | sulky, glum | |
423503812 | trepidation | apprehension | |
423503813 | volatile | explosive, impetuous | |
423503814 | wry | sardonic |