SAT Vocabulary #3
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David Kang Per. 5 10/5/10 English SAT Vocabulary #3 Definitions artifice (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive trickery; guile; craftiness cunning; ingenuity; inventiveness cacophony an unpleasant mixture of loud sounds harsh discordance of sound; dissonance a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds dastardly evil and cruel cowardly; meanly base; sneaking effete weak and without much power lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent unable to produce; sterile fetter (n. , v.) to keep someone within limits or stop them making progress to tie someone to a place by putting chains around their ankles a chain or shackle placed on the feet (Usually, fetters) anything that confines or restrains harpy a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman; shrew