Week 14 SAT Vocab

Curt

(adj) abrupt manner or speech; discourteously blunt

Tepid

(adj) lukewarm; mild; half-hearted

Protean

(adj) readily taking on various forms and meanings

Solicitous

(adj) showing great care and concern; attentive

Ingenuous

(adj) free from deviousness; innocent

Venerate

(v) to regard with great respect; to hold in high esteem

Contentious

(adj) argumentative; likely to provoke a controversy

Preclude

(adj) to make impossible; to rule out

Compunction

(adj) feelings of sincere and deep regret

Demography

(n) the study of the characteristics of human populations

Aphorism

(n) a statement universally accepted as true

Juxtapose

(v) to place side by side or in close proximity

Bombastic

(adj) pompous or pretentious in speech or writing

Forbearance

(n) abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse

Unfettered

(n) free of restraint of any kind; liberated

Proscribe

(v) to forbid or prohibit