SAT Vocab 2 Flashcards
bacchanalian
riotously drunken
avarice
desire for wealth (greed)
bastion
a fortified position
copious
yielding something abundantly.
extradite
to surrender an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority to try the charge.
furtive
attempting to avoid notice or attention (because of guilt)
irascible
marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
jettiness
a sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship’s load
mercenary
a soldier hired into foreign services for wages.
ostracize
to exclude from a group by common consent.
appease
to bring to a state of peace or quite.
argot
an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
augment
to make greater
bigot
a person who is intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.
candid
indication or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception
chaos
the confused, unorganized state of primordial matter before the creation of distinct forms.
expunge
to strike out, obliterate
jingoism
extreme nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
negligence
failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.
strident
commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality
