vocab- Thanksgiving sat test

esoteric

only known to a few

catalyst

speeds something up/start

exorbitant

excessive

contentious

arguable

equivocal

ambiguous

warranted

to give

surreptitious

sneakily/sly

clandestine

secretive

disingenuous

genuine

succinct

concise

engender

to cause/rise to

preempt

to warn

subsume

to categorize into one malign-hurts

alternate

to make thinner

belie

false interpretation

portent

warning

thwart

hinder/obstruct -inhibited, inbeade, obstruct, hinder, stymie

malign

to harm/injure

preclude

prevent from happening; make impossible.

obviate

getting rid