100 Words (250 SAT) (P2)

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Juxtaposition

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Laconic

Using very few words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious.

Languid

Weak or faint from illness or fatigue; slow and relaxed.

Largess

Generous giving of gifts or money to others.

Latent

Existing but not yet developed or obvious; hidden.

Legerdemain

Skillful use of one's hands when performing tricks; trickery.

Licentious

Lacking moral discipline or ignoring rules, especially in sexual conduct.

Limpid

Clear and transparent; easy to understand.

Maelstrom

A powerful whirlpool; a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.

Magnanimous

Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful.

Malediction

A magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil or destruction; a curse.

Malevolent

Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.

Manifold

Many and various.

Maudlin

Overly sentimental and tearfully emotional.

Mawkish

Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way.

Mendacious

Not telling the truth; lying.

Mercurial

Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

Modicum

A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something desirable or valuable.

Morass

A complicated or confused situation that is difficult to escape from.

Multifarious

Many and of various types.

Munificence

Extreme generosity in giving.

Myriad

A countless or extremely great number.

Nascent

Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.

Nefarious

(typically of an action or activity) Wicked or criminal.

Neophyte

A person who is new to a subject or activity; a beginner.

Obdurate

Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.

Obfuscate

To deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand.

Oblique

Not explicit or direct in addressing a point; slanting.

Obsequious

Excessively eager to please or obey.

Obstreperous

Noisy and difficult to control.

Obtuse

Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

Odious

Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.

Officious

Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way.

Opulent

Showing great wealth and luxury.

Ostensible

Apparent or stated, but perhaps not true.

Palliate

To make a disease or its symptoms less severe without removing the cause.

Pallid

Pale, typically because of poor health.

Panacea

A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

Paragon

A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.

Pariah

A social outcast.

Parsimony

Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.

Pathos

A quality that evokes pity or sadness.

Paucity

The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities.

Pejorative

A word or phrase expressing contempt or disapproval.

Pellucid

Translucently clear.

Penurious

Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.

Perfidious

Deceitful and untrustworthy.

Perfunctory

Done without care or interest; superficial.

Pernicious

Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Perspicacity

The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.

Pertinacious

Holding firmly to an opinion or course of action.

Petulance

The quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.

Pithy

(Of a comment, piece of writing, etc) short, expressing a idea concisely and cleverly in a few words.

Platitude

A remark or statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.

Plethora

An excess or large amount of something.

Polemic

A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.

Portent

A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.

Precocious

Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.

Prescient

Having knowledge of events before they take place.

Primeval

Of the earliest time in history.

Probity

The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty.

Proclivity

A natural tendency to do something.

Promulgate

To officially announce or make known.

Propensity

A natural inclination or tendency to behave in a particular way (not proclivity).

Propitious

Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.

Prosaic

Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace.

Proscribe

To forbid or prohibit.

Protean

Able to change frequently or easily; versatile.

Prurient

Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.

Puerile

Childishly silly or trivial.

Pugnacious

Eager or quick to argue or fight.

Pulchritude

Physical beauty.

Punctilious

Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior.

Quagmire

A difficult, precarious, or entrapping position.

Querulous

Complaining in a petulant or whining manner.

Quixotic

Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

Rancor

Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing.

Rebuke

Express sharp disapproval or criticism.

Recalcitrant

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude.

Rectitude

Morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.

Replete

Filled or well-supplied with something.

Reprobate

A morally unprincipled person.

Reprove

To reprimand or censure someone.

Repudiate

To refuse to accept or be associated with.

Rescind

To revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

Restive

Unable to keep still or silent; restless.

Ribald

Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way.

Rife

(especially of something undesirable) Widespread.

Ruse

A trick or strategy used to deceive someone.

Sacrosanct

Regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.

Sagacity

The quality of being wise or having good judgment.

Salient

Most noticeable or important.

Sanctimonious

Making a show of being morally superior to others.

Sanguine

Optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situation.

Scurrilous

Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.

Servile

Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

Solicitous

Showing concern or care for someone's well-being.

Solipsistic

Believing that oneself is all that exists.

Somnolent

Sleepy or drowsy.

Spurious

Not being what it pretends to be; false or fake.