PSAT vocab problems

paucity

scarcity; fewness

profusion

abundance

buttress

strengthen/defend

titular

relating to a title

exploited

made productive use of

contempt

being despised; regards as mean

derivative

derived; not original, secondary

ambient

surrounding; creating a mood

contentious

quarrelsome; characterized by argument

arduous

marked by great labor/effort

ineffectual

unveiling; futile; powerless

demarcate

determine boundaries; separate

conflated

fuse; merge

desultory

lacking in consistency; disconnected

spurious

not genuine; counterfeit; illegitimate

veritable

truly or very much so

notional

theoretical

contemporaneous

living in the same period of time

tenuous

lacking substance

nuanced

subtle

repudiates

reject due to no authority; cast off; reject