SAT List 1, 9 And 10 Flashcards
Accolade
Any award, honor, or laudatory notice
Acquiesce
To accept without protest, to agree or submit to
Bolster
To support or strengthen
Bombast
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Cryptic
Puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
Curtail
To cut short or reduce
Ephemeral
Lasting a shot time
Epicure
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment
Hedonist
One who lives only for pleasure
Heed
Pay careful attention to, notice
Lamentation
A cry of sorrow and grief
Lampoon
To ridicule with satire
Obliterate
To blot out completely
Plummet
Fall suddenly steeply
Podium
A platform or stand for a speaker
Resolution
Finding a solution to a problem, a formal expression by a meeting
Resonant
Characterized by reverberation, having an effect, powerful
Tentative
Unsettled in mind or opinion, experimental in nature, uncertain, hesitant
Tenuous
Thin slender, not dense, lacking clarity or sharpness, of slight importance or significance, poorly supported
Oblivious
Unmindful, unaware