SAT Flashcards
(103 cards)
Amend
Modify a text/content
Rehabilitate
Recover to a healthy life
Ostentatiously
Proudly
Extravagantly
Extremely = immoderately
Moderate
Adequate = enough
Anticipation
- Hope
- Prediction/Forecast
Munificence
Generosity
Ample
Moderate = adequate = enough
Warrant
Authorized government/legal document
Pretense
- Giả/làm giả/giả bộ (related to pretend)
Pretense of doing something: By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretense of being interested.
Dowry
Money that the girl give the man for marriage and otherwise
Stoop
Kneel, genuflect
Long for smth
Want smth very much / really look for smth
Pleasantry
A polite and often slightly humorous remark
Discriminant
The “delta” of quadratic equation
Pattridge
Chim đa đa
Pillage
= to plunder/steal from fighting/pirates stuff
Dogmated
Def: opinionated
E.x.: “he gives his opinion without trying to be dogmatic”
Assertive
Def: showing a confident and forceful personality
E.x.: “Think hard and be assertive, don’t feel nervous and concerned when going for your goal.”
Prominent (3 def all adj)
- Pronounced; important; famous
E.x: “she was a prominent member of the city council” - Projecting from sth; protuberant
E.x: “a man with big, prominent eyes like a lobster’s” - Situated so as to catch the attention; noticeable
E.x: “the new housing developments are prominent landmarks”
Adjourn
Def: recess, break
E.x: “the meeting was adjourned until December 4”
Recess
Def: break
E.x: “talks resumed after a month’s recess”
Frugal
Def: sparing or economical with regard to money or food.
E.x: “he led a remarkably frugal existence”
= economical = tend to save money or use it with cautios
Thrifty
(of a person or their behavior) using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully.
“he had been brought up to be thrifty and careful”
= economical = tend to save money or use it with cautios
