English 9

Audacious

ambitous/reckless
Bilious

unpleasant
Blithe

Happy/oblivious
Bombastic

overly complicated words for the subject
Brash

reckless/rash
Cantankerous

difficult or irratating to deal with
caustic

Direct sarcasm/corrosive
Colloquial

unacceptibly informal
Doleful

full or causing greif
Dour

Harsh/sour
Dutiful

motivated by duty
Elegiac

a poetry verse
Flippant

lacking respect or seriousness
Gregarious

social
Macabre

dealing with death or horror for a subject
Nihilistic

nothingism
Nostalgic

hoesick, wanting to return to the old days
Obsequious

obsesivness
Opprobrious

somthing that brings disccrase
Panegyric

formal or elaborate praise
Pedantic

unimaginative
Penitent

humble or regregretful sorrow
phlegmatic

slow responce
Poignat

pleasuringly stimulant
Politic

political
Pretentious

exaderated/ambitous
Prosaic

Dull unimaginative
punctilious

a corncern for percisness (perfactionist)
Quaint

odd
querulous

habituiosly complaining
Quotidian

Everday
Ribald

crude offensive
rancorous

resentful
raucous

harsh
saccharine

sugar/sweet
salacious

appealing to sexual disires
somber

gloomy dark
tautological

redundant
tempestuous

stormy
Terse

polished
Tortuous

winding
truculent

cruel/distructive
vehement

powerful
vexed

debated or discussed at legenth
Viriolic

sulfuric acid
Wanton

hard to control
whimsical

sudden idea or turn of the mind
wistful

reminacant
wry

twist
Zany

one who acts like a buffon to amuse people
zealous

extreem, demanding

Author

Culbe2014

ID

76949

Card Set

English 9

Description

English SAT Vocab

Updated

2011-04-03T17:34:10Z

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