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Words to Remember 2 (SAT)

  1. magnate
    a person of great influence in a professional field
  2. trepidation
    fear or anxiety
  3. paradigm
    model/pattern
  4. squalor
    the condition of filfth and misery
  5. Precipice
    a sitation with great peril
  6. apprehend
    capture
  7. entreaty
    request
  8. procession
    is a line of persons moving forward
  9. distend
    expand by stretching
  10. nebulous
    vague
  11. chastising
    scolding
  12. evincing
    proving
  13. elucidating
    clarifying
  14. oscillating
    swing back and forth
  15. parochial
    limited in space or scope or outlook, provincial
  16. insular
    isolated
  17. reprehensible
    blameworthy
  18. palatable
    pleasant
  19. extricating
    removing from a difficult situation
  20. lambast
    reprimand severely
  21. belaboring
    discuss excessively
  22. verbose
    wordy
  23. upbraided
    reproached severely
  24. sequestered 
    isolated
  25. bilious
    means extremely unpleasant or distasteful
  26. fallacious
    means flawed in reasoning
  27. perspicacity
    a state of keen mental perception and understanding
  28. myopic
    lacking understanding, short-sighted, or narrow-minded
  29. cathartic
    relieving tension or stress
  30. distressing
    causing stress
  31. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  32. erudite
    well-learned or scholarly
  33. ameliorative
    improving or making more bearable
  34. parsimony
    cheapness or stinginess
  35. winsome
    innocently charming
  36. misanthropic
    hating people
  37. sanguine
    cheerfully optimistic
  38. inverterate
    firmly established in a practice or habit by long continuance
  39. tyro
    beginner or novice
  40. neophyte
    newcommer or beginner
  41. sagacious
    wise or shrewd
  42. deleterious
    harmful
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159218
Card Set
Words to Remember 2 (SAT)
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