PSAT 17

  1. repartee: a quick witty reply, spirited conversation

  2. ribald: vulgar or indecent language

  3. salubrious: favorable to health

  4. ruminate: to muse upon

  5. sangfroid: extraordinary composure in the face of danger

  6. saturnine: sullen, gloomy, depressed

  7. sylvan: wooded; forest-like

  8. synergy: the combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful than each alone

  9. temporize: to compromise, to draw something out in order to gain time

  10. timorous: fearful, easily frightened

  11. usury: lending money at a high interest rate

  12. vacuous: empty, lacking intelligence

  13. veneer: façade, coating, outward appearance

  14. verdant: covered with green plants, leafy

  15. vicarious: acting for another, sharing in an experience of another through the imagination

  16. wont: custom, habit

  17. zephyr: a gentle breeze

  18. aphasia: loss of speech

  19. arrant: notoriously without moderation

  20. claque: an audience paid to clap, an obsequious audience

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