PSAT Vocabulary

1. PSAT Vocabulary Trailer Assignment Quiz next Tuesday

2. Lethargic – lacking energy; sluggish • Malinger – to pretend illness to avoid duty or work • Gratuitous – given freely or without cause • Peruse – to examine or study • Mimicry – imitation; aping • Frivolity – lack of seriousness; levity • Lithe – flexible and graceful • Languid – without energy; slow, sluggish, listless • Proximity – closeness, nearness • Nurture – to nourish or help to grow

3. Mollify – to soothe or calm; to appease • Belated – delayed past the proper time • Audacious - bold, daring, adventurous • Antiseptic – fighting infection; extremely clean • Pariah – outcast • Fugitive – someone trying to escape • Hierarchy – a ranking of people, things, or ideas from highest to lowest • Plastic – able to be molded or reshaped • Conformity – agreement with or adherence to custom or rule • Consummate – to complete, finish, or perfect

4. Disruptive – causing disorder, interrupting • Curtail – to shorten • Potentate – a powerful ruler • Composure – calm, self-assurance • Collaborate – to work together • Feral – wild • Digress – to wander from the main path or the main topic • Laudatory – giving praise • Onerous – heavy, burdensome • Mercurial – changing quickly and unpredictably

5. Discern – to detect, notice, or observe • Durable – long lasting • Exuberant – wildly joyous and enthusiastic • Disparity – difference in quality or kind • Diligent – working hard and steadily • Discomfit – to frustrate, thwart, or embarrass • Euphoric – a feeling of extreme happiness and well-being; elation • Ephemeral – quickly disappearing; transient • Emollient – something that softens or soothes • Encroach – to go beyond acceptable limits; to trespass