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Spring Semester. SAT Vocab. The Deets :. A quiz after every fourth-ish list SAT style—specifically geared for SAT improvement L McCue: “There’s an app for that” You should be able to earn an A on every one of them!!. Week 2. 1. nemesis.
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Spring Semester SAT Vocab
The Deets: • A quiz after every fourth-ish list • SAT style—specifically geared for SAT improvement • L McCue: “There’s an app for that” • You should be able to earn an A on every one of them!!
1. nemesis • an opponent or enemy that is likely to be impossible for you to defeat, or a situation that is likely to be impossible for you to deal with
2. dearth • A lack of something
3. inevitable • certain to happen and impossible to avoid
4. discord • disagreement or arguing between people; an unpleasant sound made by a group of musical notes that do not go together well
5. demonstrative • willing to show that you care about someone
6. wistful • thinking sadly about something you would like to have but cannot have, especially something that you used to have in the past
7. brevity • the quality of expressing something in very few words
8. insufferable • extremely annoying or unpleasant
9. florid • florid language, music, or art has a lot of extra unnecessary details or decorations; a florid face is red in color
10. opacity • the quality that something has when it is difficult to understand or difficult to see through
Week 3 • 11 words this week!
1. negligible • too slight or unimportant to have any effect
2. counterproductive • achieving the opposite result to the one that you want
3. momentous • An event, change, or decision is very important because it will have a great influence on the future
4. magnanimous • kind and generous, especially to someone that you have defeated; free from resentfulness or vindictiveness
5. empiric • based on scientific testing or practical experience, not on ideas; a quack, charalatan
6. phobic • someone who has a strong unreasonable fear of something
7. quixotic • ideas or plans are not practical and are based on unreasonable hopes of improving the world; romantic, visionary; impulsive, unpredictable
8. foster • to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time
9. allege • to assert without proof
10. ascertain • to find out something
11. venality • openness to bribery or corruption
1. lavish • (adj) large, impressive, or expensive • (v) to give someone or something a lot of love, praise, money etc
2. corpulence • The condition of being excessively fat, obese
3. vex • to make someone feel annoyed or worried
4. abound • to exist in very large numbers
5. redolent • making you think of something; smelling strongly of something
6. cerebral • relating to or affecting your brain; having or involving complicated ideas rather than strong emotions
7. therapeutic • making you feel calm and relaxed; relating to the treatment or cure of an illness
8. undermine • to gradually make someone or something less strong or effective
9. forfeit • to be legally or officially taken away from you as a punishment
10. redouble • to greatly increase your effort as you try to do something
Week 4 • 11 words! • Quiz on List 1-3 next Friday!
1. harangue • to speak in a loud angry way, often for a long time, in order to criticize someone or to persuade them that you are right
2. intemperate • language or behavior that shows a lack of control which other people think is unacceptable
3. conciliatory • doing something that is intended to make someone stop arguing with you
4. halting • if your speech or movements are halting, you stop for a moment between words or movements, especially because you are not confident
5. robust • A person, thing or organization is strong and not likely to have problems; showing determination or strong opinions; strong flavor (as in food)
6. facile • A remark, argument etc. that is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding; achievement or success that has been obtained too easily and has no value
7. imperious • giving orders and expecting to be obeyed, in a way that seems too proud
8. inscrutable • showing no emotion or reaction in the expression so that it is impossible to know what they are feeling or thinking
9. convivial • friendly and pleasantly cheerful
10. histrionic • very loud and emotional behaviour that is intended to get sympathy and attention - used to show disapproval
11. solicitous • very concerned about someone's safety, health, or comfort
Week 5 • Vocab Quiz (SAT fill-in-the-blank style) next Friday • Lists 1-5
1. gaiety • when someone or something is cheerful and fun