SAT Common Vocabulary Words Set 8

Mrs. Lin (United States of America)
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  1. accentuate
    stress or single out as important
  2. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  3. allegory
    a short moral story
  4. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  5. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  6. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  7. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  8. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  9. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  10. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  11. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  12. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  13. idiosyncrasy
    a behavioral attribute peculiar to an individual
  14. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  15. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  16. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  17. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  18. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  19. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  20. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  21. reclusive
    withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
  22. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  23. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  24. unequivocal
    admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding
  25. venerate
    regard with feelings of respect and reverence
Created on Sat Jul 06 20:24:19 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Jul 06 20:26:36 EDT 2013)

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