Pg 2 SAT

Mundane

Common, everyday

Ungainly

Clumsy, awkward

Unctuous

oily, insincere

Perquisite

Bonus on top of a stipulated salary

Splenetic

peevish, easily irritated

captious

faultfinding; too critical

Thespian

Actor

Combustible

Easily burned

Purported

Supposed, seemingly on the surface I

Interlude

A break between two acts

Exuberance

Overflowing abundance; flamboyance; lavishness

Agnosy

Ignorance

Ordain

Decree or command; grant holy orders; install as minister, priest, or rabbi; predestine

Groove

Long narrow channel made in a surface to guide movement

Criteria

Standards used for judging

Cunning

Sly

Frolic

frisk, play and jump about happily

Accrete

to increase

Extravagant

Needlessly wasteful or luxurious

Ken

Range of knowledge

Peripatetic

Moving; walking around from place to place (to work)

Inaugurate

Install in office (w/ or w/o formal ceremony); begin formally

Flounder

struggle and thrash about; proceed clumsily

Figment

Invention; imaginary thing

Herd

Group of animals; crowd; one who looks after a herd

Spin

Rotate swiftly

Casual

Happening by chance; informal; occasional

Sepulcher

tomb

Deserts

What somebody deserves

Vivi

life

Scarp

leftover

descry

discern, to notice

Resonant

Echoing R

Resounding

Sounding loudly

Seduce

To lead astray, to lead away

Grueling

Exhausting

Raiment

Clothes; garment

Pseudolatry

False worship

Rooster

male chicken

Seethe

Be violently disturbed; boil

Civilian

A common citizen

Capacious

Having wide spaces

Abash

Humiliate, humble, embarrass

Expectorate

To coupe up and spit out something

Contention

Assertion; claim; competition; struggling; thesis

Genus

Division of animals or plants; below family above species

Detente

Easing of tensions

Impending

Approaching; nearing

Stodgy

Dull; stuffy; boringly conservative

Elixir

Cure-all; panacea; something invigorating

Panacea

Cure-all

Paraphrase

To summarize