PSAT Vocab Lesson 4

Aesthetic

Relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art

Aloof

Apart, indifferent

Archaic

Antiquated, old, out of use

Assuage

To ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm

Belie

To contradict, to give a false impression

Contentious

Quarrelsome, stirring controversy

Daunt

To intimidate, to dismay

Debilitate

To weaken, to enfeeble

Discord

Lack of agreement, tension, strife

Dissemination

The act of spreading widely, scattering

Dogmatic

Strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner, stubborn

Duplicity

Double-dealing, hypocrisy

Egocentric

Self-centered, selfish

Euphemism

Substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive

Gluttonous

Greedy for food and drink

Mundane

Ordinary, commonplace

Ominous

Threatening

Petulance

Unreasonable touchiness or irritability

Pompous

Exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance

Precocious

Exceptionally early in development or occurrence

Slothful

Lazy, indolent

Trivia

Insignificant manners

Verbose

Wordy, very talkative

Virulent

Extremely poisonous, hateful

Volatile

Quickly changeable, easily vaporized