PDA SAT Day 4

Vicissitude

Event that occurs by chance

Arboreal

Of or relating to trees

Compunction

Distress caused by feeling guilty

Somnolent

Sleepy, drowsy

Tangential

Incidental, peripheral, divergent

Demagogue

A leader who appeals to a people’s prejudices

Recalcitrant

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control; obstinately disobedient

Ameliorate

To improve

Ascetic

Practicing restraint as a means of self-discipline, usually religious

Sycophant

One who flatters for self-gain

Amorphous

Without definite shape or type

Capitulate

To surrender

Obsequious

Excessively compliant or submissive

Superfluous

Exceeding what is necessary

Circumlocution

Indirect and wordy language

Esoteric

Understood by only a select few

Abrogate

To abolish, usually by authority

Ebullient

Extremely lively, enthusiastic

Antithesis

The absolute opposite

Imperious

Arrogantly overbearing; domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial