Sat First 25 Words

Front 1

Banal adj.

Back 1

Hackneyed, trie, commonplace

Front 2

Belabor v.

Back 2

to work on excessively, to thrash soundly

Front 3

coherent adj.

Back 3

holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible , meaningful

Front 4

Emulate v.

Back 4

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Front 5

Eschew v.

Back 5

To avoid; shun; keep away from

Front 6

Insatiable adj.

Back 6

so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Front 7

Reconnaissance n.

Back 7

a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Front 8

Substantiate v.

Back 8

to establish by evidence; prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Front 9

Taciturn adj.

Back 9

habitually silent or quiet; inclined to talk very little

Front 10

Temporize v.

Back 10

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time; avoid a confrontation; or postpone a excision; to compromise

Front 11

Tenable adj.

Back 11

capable of being held or defended

Front 12

Accost v.

Back 12

to approach and speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

Front 13

Avid adj.

Back 13

Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Front 14

Devious adj.

Back 14

straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded wat

Front 15

Incendiary adj.

Back 15

Deliberately; setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who causes strife deliberately sets fries; arsonist; one who causes strife

Front 16

Maelstrom n.

Back 16

a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

Front 17

Myopic adj.

Back 17

nearsighted; laking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

Front 18

Overt adj.

Back 18

open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

Front 19

Propriety n.

Back 19

the state of being proper, appropriateness

Front 20

Sacrilege n.

Back 20

improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Front 21

Summarily adv.

Back 21

without delay or formality

Front 22

undulate v.

Back 22

to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance form

Front 23

Articulate v.

Back 23

to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints

Front 24

Credence n.

Back 24

belief, mental acceptance

Front 25

Dissemble v.

Back 25

to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression