SAT Flashcards: Lesson 3

abstruse: hard to understand

affable: friendly

audacity: excessive boldness

contrite: extremely apologetic

credulous: gullible

depravity: moral corruption

deprecate: to disapprove regretfully

didactic: designed to teach

dormant: inactive

enigmatic: mysterious

erudite: scholarly

exotic: foreign

fuse: to bond together

immutable: unchancing

incorrigible, incapable of being reformed

loathe: to detest

mitigate: to make less severe

nullify: to void

pacifistic: opposed to war/force.

pretentious: show off

prologue: beginning of speech or in a play

recant: to retract a statement

servile: submissive

trepidation: fear

villify: to defame