Vocab Booster SAT Supplement Vocabulary: Careful and Precise Words

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  1. cautious
    showing careful forethought
  2. chary
    characterized by great caution
  3. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  4. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  5. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  6. heed
    careful attention
  7. leery
    openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
  8. incredulous
    not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
  9. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  10. precaution
    a measure taken in advance to ward off impending danger
  11. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  12. skeptical
    marked by or given to doubt
  13. wary
    marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
  14. anxiety
    a vague unpleasant emotion in anticipation of a misfortune
  15. apprehensive
    in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
  16. duress
    compulsory force or threat
  17. overwrought
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  18. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  19. exacting
    severe and unremitting in making demands
  20. precise
    sharply exact or accurate or delimited
  21. precision
    the quality of being exact
  22. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  23. strict
    rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
  24. stringent
    demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
  25. deliberate
    carefully thought out in advance
  26. devise
    arrange by systematic planning and united effort
  27. methodical
    characterized by orderliness
  28. premeditated
    characterized by deliberate purpose and a degree of planning
  29. resolution
    a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
Created on Fri Jan 31 16:59:46 EST 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:01:28 EDT 2020)

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