SAT words part 2

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• Abate Decrease, diminish
• Abdicate Resign, give up
• Aesthetic Beautiful, artful
• Anachronistic Chronologically misplaced, in a wrong time
• Arid Lacking sufficient water, dry
• Asylum Shelter, sanctuary, refuge
• Boisterous Loud, noisy, lively
• Brazen Shameless
• Brusque Rude, short, impolite
• Camaraderie Good fellow-ship
• Capitulate Surrender under agreed conditions
• Clairvoyant Having great insight or psychic powers
• Compromise A middle way
• Conditional Dependent
• Conundrum A difficult problem, puzzle
• Convergence The act of coming together
• Deleterious Harmful to living things, injurious
• Demagogue Agitator
• Divergent Different
• Ephemeral Short-lived
• Evanescent Passing, brief
• Extenuating Lessening the seriousness of something
• Florid Ornate, flowery
• Forbearance Patience, tolerance
• Fortuitous Lucky, fortunate
• Foster Providing or receiving nurture
• Hackneyed Common, unoriginal
• Hedonist A pleasure seeker
• Hypothesis A theory or guess
• Impute Attribute, accredit, ascribe
• Intrepid Fearless, brave
• Jubilation Joy, happiness
• Lobbyist A persuader, an influencer
• Longevity Long-lived
• Opulent Luxurious and grand
• Orator A person who delivers a speech or oration, speaker
• Parched Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
• Perfidious Disloyal, unfaithful, betraying
• Precocious Early maturity, advanced, forward
• Prosaic Straight forward, matter-of-fact
• Querulous Habitually complaining
• Rancorous Bitter, hostilte
• Reclusive Withdrawn from society, seeking solitude
• Renovation Improving by renewing and restoring
• Sagacity Sound judgement, wisdom
• Spontaneous Unplanned, impulsive
• Spurious Plausible but false, phony, not correct
• Superficial Shallow
• Surreptitious Marked by quiet caution and secrecy
• Venerable Profoundly honoured, respected

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