SAT Hit Parade 2012 - Maritime

Ms. Gerlinger (United States of America)
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  1. candid
    openly straightforward and direct without secretiveness
  2. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  3. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  4. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  5. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  6. extrapolate
    draw from specific cases for more general cases
  7. incoherent
    without logical or meaningful connection
  8. insinuate
    suggest in an indirect or covert way; give to understand
  9. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  10. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  11. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  12. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  13. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  14. ascertain
    learn or discover with confidence
  15. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  16. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  17. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  18. erudition
    profound scholarly knowledge
  19. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  20. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  21. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  22. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  23. prolific
    intellectually productive
  24. prospectus
    a document that sets forth a plan for a business enterprise
  25. rudimentary
    being in the earliest stages of development
  26. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  27. callous
    emotionally hardened
  28. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  29. disaffected
    discontented as toward authority
  30. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  31. potentate
    a powerful ruler, especially one who is unconstrained by law
  32. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  33. censure
    harsh criticism or disapproval
  34. denounce
    speak out against
  35. reclusive
    withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
  36. relinquish
    turn away from; give up
  37. renounce
    turn away from; give up
  38. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  39. circumscribe
    draw a geometric figure around another figure
  40. contiguous
    having a common boundary or edge
  41. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  42. credible
    capable of being believed
  43. exonerate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  44. incontrovertible
    impossible to deny or disprove
  45. indict
    accuse formally of a crime
  46. husbandry
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  47. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  48. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  49. staid
    characterized by dignity and propriety
  50. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  51. assimilate
    make alike
  52. autonomy
    political independence
  53. cosmopolitan
    composed of people from many parts of the world
  54. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  55. entourage
    the group following and attending to some important person
  56. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  57. gaffe
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  58. idiosyncrasy
    a behavioral attribute peculiar to an individual
  59. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  60. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
Created on Sun Mar 17 14:14:34 EDT 2013 (updated Sun May 05 10:13:28 EDT 2013)

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