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8/4/2019 Sat Practice Vocabulary Words
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SAT PRACTICE VOCABULARY WORDS :
1. Sentimental - governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotions2. Inevitable - incapable of being avoided or evaded3. Pretentious - making usually unjustified or excessive claims4. Verbose - containing more words than necessary5. Eloquent - marked by forceful andfluentexpression, revealing6. Aptly - unusually fitted or qualified7. Stoically - not affected by or showing passion or feeling8. Grandiloquent - a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style,
manner, or quality especially in language9. Valedictory - expressing or containing a farewell10. Assiduous - marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application11. Exorbitant - exceeding the customary orappropriatelimits12. Wreaked - vengeance or punishment, or to give free play or course to (malevolent
feeling)13. Compensate - to make an appropriate and usually counterbalancing payment to
14. Diligence - SPEED,HASTEthe attention and care legally expected or required of a
person15. Prestigious - relating to, or marked by illusion, conjuring, :havingprestige:
HONORED16. Abundance - relative degree of plentifulness17. Quiescent - inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest : causing no trouble or symptoms18. Garrulous - given to prosy, rambling, or tediousloquacity: pointlessly or annoyingly
talkative19. Congregated - to come together into a group, crowd, or assembly20. Wholesome - promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit21. Salutary - producing a beneficial effect ; promoting health22. Contemplative - of or relating to a religious order devoted to prayer and penance ;
monk
23. Periphery - the external boundary or surface of a body24. Urban - of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city25. Symmetrical - split in the middle and both sides are alike26. Masquerade - a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic
costumes27. Instigating - to goad or urge forward :PROVOKE28. Understatement - to represent as less than is the case29. Frugal - characterized by or reflectingeconomyin the use of resources
30. Ponderous - oppressively or unpleasantly dull :LIFELESS; unwieldy or clumsybecause of weight and size
31. Protracted - to prolong in time or space ; delay32. Dwindle - to become steadily less ; shrink
33. Vulnerable - capable of being physically or emotionally wounded : open to attack ordamage
34. Novel - new and not resembling something formerly known or used ; original35. Autonomy - : self-directing freedom and especially moral independence ; self
governing
36. Prosperous - marked by success or economic well-being37. Masonry - something constructed of materials used bymasons( a skilled worker
who builds by laying units of substantial material )
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38. Prosaic - characteristic distinguish from poetry :DULL,UNIMAGINATIVE:EVERYDAY,
ORDINARY39. Staid - marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint:SOBER,GRAVE40. Antediluvian - made, evolved, or developed a long time ago41. Fertile - producing or bearing fruit in great quantities42. Edifices - a large or massive structure
43. Grandiose - impressive because of uncommon largeness, scope, effect, or grandeur44. Imposing - impressive in size, bearing, dignity, or grandeur
45. Adjacent - not distant :NEARBY : having a common endpointor border46. Brawny - being swollen and hard :MUSCULAR;also:STRONG,POWERFUL
47. Breadth - : distance from side to side :WIDTH48. Industriously - related:SKILLFUL,INGENIOUS,DILIGENT:constantly, regularly, or
habitually active49. Mused - to become absorbed in thought
50. Erratic - having no fixed course :WANDERING:NOMADIC
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