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UNIT 6 VOCABULARY REVIEW

UNIT 6 VOCABULARY REVIEW. SAT/ACT PREP. Acumen. Keen insight; shrewdness (noun) Root ACU = sharpen. Deleterious. Injurious to health; harmful (adjective) Root DELETER = destroyer. Chicanery.

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UNIT 6 VOCABULARY REVIEW

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  1. UNIT 6 VOCABULARY REVIEW SAT/ACT PREP

  2. Acumen • Keen insight; shrewdness (noun)Root ACU = sharpen

  3. Deleterious • Injurious to health; harmful (adjective)Root DELETER = destroyer

  4. Chicanery • The use of sly or evasive language, reasoning, etc. to trick or deceive; a tricky or deceitful maneuver (noun)Root CHICANER = wrangle

  5. Epiphany • A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into reality or the essential meaning of something (noun)Root PHAN = show, bring to light, appear

  6. Homogeneous • Composed of elements that are the same kind or nature, esp. alike; not heterogeneous (adjective)Root GEN = kind, race, class

  7. Kinetic •  Characterized by movement; pertaining to or caused by motion (adjective)Root KINE = move

  8. Incognito • With one's identity hidden, disguised or unknown (adjective)Root COGN = know

  9. Facetious • Not meant to be taken seriously or literally; concerned with something amusing or frivolous (adjective)Root FACETI = wit, jest

  10. Loquacious • Characterized by excessive talk; garrulous; talkative; wordy (adjective)Root LOQU = speak

  11. Nihilism • Belief that there is no basis for truth, and all existence is senseless (noun)Root NIHIL = nothing, zero

  12. Obsequious • Showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning; sycophantic (adjective)Root SEQU = follow

  13. Lugubrious •  Mournful or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated manner (adjective)Root LUG = mourn

  14. Paradigm •  An example serving as a model; pattern (noun)Root (pfx) PARA = side by side

  15. Precipitous • Extremely steep; of the nature of a situation of great peril (adjective)Root CIPIT = head

  16. Sanguine • Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish; ruddy (adjective)Root SANGUI = blood

  17. Unctuous • Characteristic of a salve or ointment; oily; greasy; excessively suave or smug (adjective)Root UNCT = anoint

  18. Vacuous • Empty; lacking in or showing a lack of ideas, content, substance or intelligence; purposeless (adjective)Root VACU = empty

  19. Xenophobe • A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc. (noun)Root XENO = foreign, strange

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