SAT week 5 Flashcards
colloquial
local and informal language
dotard
foolish old man
misnomer
wrong name
percipient
perceptive, insightful
quaff
drink down quickly
staunch
loyal, faithful
vilification
blackening someone’s name
collusion
plotting and planning
furtive
hidden and secret
insurgent
a rebel
misogynist
hater of women
perdition
damnation
quagmire
marsh, bog
vindicate
prove right, remove blame
attenuate
weaken
commandeer
take possession of
drivel
nonsense
futile
useless, hopeless
interminable
never-ending
peremptory
in a commanding manner
quaint
picturesque
stevedore
dockworker
augment
increase, make bigger
complacent
self-satisfied, smug
droll
dryly amusing
mitigate
lessen, make less severe
perfidy
treachery
quandary
dilemma, puzzle
stifle
suppress
virulent
dangerous, harmful
auspicious
favorable, promising to turn out well
drone
monotonous voice
to speak with no emotion
male bee
gambol
frolic, leap, bound
intransigence
stubbornness
modicum
small amount
perfunctory
superficial, hasty and therefore not throrough
stoic
courage in pain or adversity = fortitude
indifferent to pleasure or pain
austere
severely plain
concatenate
link together
dubious
doubtful
garble
distort, confuse
intransigent
stubborn
momentous
very important
peripatetic
nomadic
quarry
something that is hunted
mine for stone
stoke
add fuel to, strengthen
vitriolic
corrosive
aversion
a dislike of
concatenation
linking into chains
intrepid
brave
peripheral
on the edge
not important
querulous
always complaining
stolid
impassive, dull
vivacity
liveliness, animation
balk
hinder and prevent
hesitate over
conciliate
to bring together
end a dispute
garner
gather, collect
inveterate
habitual
moratorium
temporary prohibition
perjury
telling lies under oath
vivify
enlighten
banal
common, dull
ebullient
very lively, cheerful
garrulous
talkative
invidious
arousing envy
moribund
on the point of death
strident
loud and harsh
vociferous
noise, loud in speech
banality
ordinariness
condescend
talk down to
gaunt
abnormally thin and weak, bony and angular
inviolable
cannot be invaded
morose
gloomy, bad tempered
persnickety
fastidious, fussy
ramifications
branches, subdivisions
outcomes
stringent
strict or severe