Vocab Booster SAT Textbook Vocabulary, Reading Unit 3 Drill 3, p. 88-90

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  1. acclaim
    praise vociferously
  2. advocate
    speak, plead, or argue in favor of
  3. air
    a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding something
  4. allegedly
    according to what has been declared but not proved
  5. ample
    more than enough in size or scope or capacity
  6. anesthesia
    loss of bodily sensation
  7. appeal
    attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
  8. assessment
    the act of judging a person or situation or event
  9. comical
    arousing or provoking laughter
  10. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  11. criterion
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
  12. derive
    come from
  13. emphasize
    stress or single out as important
  14. fall flat
    fail utterly; collapse
  15. hilarity
    great merriment
  16. imply
    express or state indirectly
  17. impose
    charge and collect payment
  18. indifference
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
  19. inherent
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  20. mirror
    reflect or resemble
  21. muster
    summon up, call forth, or bring together
  22. nationalism
    the doctrine that your country's interests are superior
  23. objective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  24. opaque
    not clearly understood or expressed
  25. pale
    very light in color or highly diluted with white
    The idiom 'beyond/outside the pale' means beyond what is familiar.
  26. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
  27. prolong
    lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
  28. rational
    consistent with or based on or using reason
  29. refute
    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
  30. sentimentality
    extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
  31. shoot
    fire a shot
  32. solemn
    dignified and somber in manner or character
  33. spasm
    a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
  34. spiteful
    showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt
  35. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  36. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  37. symptom
    a sensation associated with a particular disease
  38. rationalism
    the doctrine that reason is the basis for regulating conduct
  39. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  40. felt
    a fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers
  41. fare
    proceed, get along, or succeed
Created on Wed Apr 01 17:53:03 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:26:45 EDT 2020)

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