SAT Vocab 2

Question 0

bacchanalian

Answer 0

riotously drunken

Question 1

avarice

Answer 1

desire for wealth (greed)

Question 2

bastion

Answer 2

a fortified position

Question 3

copious

Answer 3

yielding something abundantly.

Question 4

extradite

Answer 4

to surrender an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority to try the charge.

Question 5

furtive

Answer 5

attempting to avoid notice or attention (because of guilt)

Question 6

irascible

Answer 6

marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger

Question 7

jettiness

Answer 7

a sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship’s load

Question 8

mercenary

Answer 8

a soldier hired into foreign services for wages.

Question 9

ostracize

Answer 9

to exclude from a group by common consent.

Question 10

appease

Answer 10

to bring to a state of peace or quite.

Question 11

argot

Answer 11

an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.

Question 12

augment

Answer 12

to make greater

Question 13

bigot

Answer 13

a person who is intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

Question 14

candid

Answer 14

indication or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception

Question 15

chaos

Answer 15

the confused, unorganized state of primordial matter before the creation of distinct forms.

Question 16

expunge

Answer 16

to strike out, obliterate

Question 17

jingoism

Answer 17

extreme nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.

Question 18

negligence

Answer 18

failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.

Question 19

strident

Answer 19

commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality