Every SAT word Has A History Flashcards
Laconic
Very brief, consice; SUCCINT; TERSE
Draconian
Characterized by strict laws, rules, and punishment
Spartan
Plain, simple, austere
Halcyon
Idyllically calm and peaceful; and untroubled golden time of satisfaction, happiness, and tranquility
Sophistry
A plausible but deliberately misleading or fallacious argument designed to deceive someone
Chimerical
Given to fantastic schemes; existing only in the imagination; vainly conceived
Ostracize
To deliberately exclude from a group; to BANISH
Impecunious
Poor; penniless, not affluent
Nefarious
Famous for being wicked, villainous, vile
Jovial
Good-hundred; cheerful; jocular
Dirge
A funeral hymn; a slow, mournful, lugubrious musical composition
Maudlin
Tearful, excessively sentimental, not MAWKISH
Quixotic
Foolishly impractical in the pursuit of ideals; impractical idealism
Pandemonium
A wild uproar; tumult
Pan
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Martinet
A strict disciplinarian; a person who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules
Fiasco
A complete failure; a DEBACLE
Bowdlerize
To remove or delete parts of a book, song, or other work that see considered offensive; to EXPURGATE
Galvanize
To electrify; to stir into action as if with an electric shock
Picayune
Small value or importance; petty; trifling
Gerrymander
To divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections
Maverick
An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party; a nonconformist
Juggernaut
An irresistible force that crushes everything in its past
Serendipity
To discover by fortunate accident
Zenith
The highest point; the peak; the APEX
Nadir
The lowest point; the bottom
