SAT Flashcards: Lesson 3

Prologue

________: beginning of speech or in a play.

Depravity

________: moral corruption.

abstruse

hard to understand

affable

friendly

audacity

excessive boldness

contrite

extremely apologetic

credulous

gullible

depravity

moral corruption

deprecate

to disapprove regretfully

didactic

designed to teach

dormant

inactive

enigmatic

mysterious

erudite

scholarly

exotic

foreign

fuse

to bond together

immutable

unchancing

loathe

to detest

mitigate

to make less severe

nullify

to void

pacifistic

opposed to war/force

pretentious

show off

prologue

beginning of speech or in a play

recant

to retract a statement

servile

submissive

trepidation

fear

villify

to defame