SAT words

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  1. forbearance
    a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges
  2. transitory
    lasting a very short time
  3. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  4. salubrious
    promoting health
  5. abjure
    formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief
  6. vicissitude
    a variation in circumstances or fortune
  7. augur
    predict from an omen
  8. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  9. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  10. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  11. parlance
    a manner of speaking natural to a language's native speakers
  12. fulminate
    cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  13. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  14. presentiment
    a feeling of evil to come
  15. niggardly
    petty or reluctant in giving or spending
  16. lexicographer
    a compiler or writer of a dictionary
  17. foppish
    overly concerned with extreme elegance in dress and manner
  18. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  19. acerbity
    a sharp bitterness
  20. gambol
    play or run boisterously
  21. sovereign
    a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
Created on Thu Jul 28 22:05:59 EDT 2011

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