Sat Vocabulary #3

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Fop (n)

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an excessively fashion-conscious man

Ex. "he's such a fop that he drives nearly 50 miles just to get his hair cut by Monsieur Louis"

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Imprecation (n)

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a curse

Ex. "the defiant prisoner continued to hurl imprecations and insults at the guards"

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Non sequitur (n)

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1. something that does not logically follow

2. a statement that is not connected in a logical or clear way to anything said before it

Ex. "We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog."

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Sanguine (adj)

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cheerful; optimistic

Ex. "He is sanguine about the company's future."

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Bowdlerize (v)

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to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.

Ex: "a bowdlerized version of “Gulliver's Travels” that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children"

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Impair (v)

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to weaken; to cause to become worse.

Ex. "Smoking can impair your health."

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Panegyric (n)

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1. an expression of praise.

2. something (such as a speech or a piece of writing) that praises someone or something.

Ex. "wrote a panegyric on the centennial of the Nobel laureate's birth"

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Quandary (n)

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1. a puzzling situation; a dilemma

2. a situation in which you are confused about what to do

Ex. "The unexpected results of the test have created a quandary for researchers."

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Ebullient (adj)

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enthusiastic

Ex. "she sounded ebullient and happy"

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Deference (n)

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respect; consideration

Ex. "he addressed her with the deference due to age."

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Carnal (adj)

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relating to physical appetite, especially sexual

Ex. "carnal desire"

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Nebulous (adj)

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hazy; vague; uncertain

Ex. "a giant nebulous glow"

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Rakish (adj)

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dashingly stylish and confident.

2. Having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance.

Ex. "he had a rakish, debonair look"

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Elegy (n)

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1. a sad or mournful poem.

2. A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Ex. Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell.

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Pedantic (adj)

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tending to show off one’s learning

Syn. overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous.

Ex. "many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal "

"Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail."

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Antipathy (n)

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an intense dislike.

2. A deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion

Ex. "his fundamental antipathy to capitalism"

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Elucidate (v)

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to make clear; to bring to light

Ex. "work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter"

" in what follows I shall try to elucidate what I believe the problems to be"

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Imminent (adj)

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likely to happen; threatening.

Ex. "they were in imminent danger of being swept away"

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Banal (adj)

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common, ordinary.

2. So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

"songs with banal, repeated words"

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Obdurate (adj)

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stubborn; hardheaded.

Ex. "The Egyptian polity, remarkably obdurate for the past quarter of a century and deeply rooted in authoritarian structures established more than 50 years ago, is apparently coming apart at the seams."

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Peruse (v)

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to read carefully; scrutinize

Ex. "The Tribunal perused the original and read the copies that were made for its use"

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Bedlam (n)

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a noisy uproar; a scene of wild confusion

Ex. "he station became a scene of bedlam as if often does, with its small confines causing waiting outbound passengers to be in the way of arriving passengers"

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Affluence (n)

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wealth; richness.

Ex. a sign of our growing affluence.

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Scurrilous (adj)

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coarsely abusive; vulgar.

"We still have this need to balance the rehabilitation of offenders and the damage to people by scurrilous allegations."

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Parody (n)

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a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner.

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Sedulous (adj)

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hard working; diligent.

Ex. "he watched himself with the most sedulous care"

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Onerous (adj)

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burdensome; heavy; hard to endure.

Ex. "he found his duties increasingly onerous."

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Amoral (adj)

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lacking a sense of right and wrong.

Ex. "an amoral attitude to sex"

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Eschew (v)

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to keep away from; to avoid; to shun.

Ex. "he appealed to the crowd to eschew violence"

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Denouement (n)

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an outcome; result.'

Ex. "There's nothing like seeing two improbably beautiful people fall in love, fight, and reach a film's dénouement together"

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ROOT: clin

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to lean or to bend.

Example : DECLINE, RECLINE, INCLINE, CLIMAX

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ROOTS: pon and pos

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to put or to place.

Example : COMPONENT, OPPONENT, EXPONENT, POSTPONE

Example : JUXTAPOSE, EXPOSE, SUPPOSE, COMPOSE, POSTURE, OPPOSE, PROPOSE, PURPOSE, IMPOSE, POSITION

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ROOT: hyper

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excessive (in excess).

Example : HYPERACTIVE, HYPERBOLE, HYPERTENSION

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ROOT: therm

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heat.

Example : THERMAL, ISOTHERM, THERMOS, THERMOMETER, THERMOSTAT, THERMOCOUPLE.

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PREFIX: com

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with, together.

Example : Coherence , Committee, Communication , Comparative, Compassion, Compensation , Complication, Compulsion.

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PREFIX: im

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into.

Ex. Import

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PREFIX: dis

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apart

Example: dismiss, differ, disallow, disperse, dissuade, divide, disconnect, disproportion, disrespect, distemper, disarray

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PREFIX: de

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down, from, away, to do the opposite, reverse, against.

Example: detach, deploy, derange, decrease, deodorize, devoid, deflate, degenerate