SAT Vocabulary Review #2

abstinence

• joining of parts
• sympathy, mercy
• instinctive
• act of refraining from

anachronistic

• agreeable
• able to see the future
• flushed, ornate
• out-of-date

assiduous

• sharing of feelings
• disgrace
• frustration
• hard-working

circuitous

• condescending
• indirect, roundabout
• fleeting
• moving apart

condescending

• high praise
• rash
• patronizing
• to criticize harshly

disdain

• agreeable
• disloyal
• to regard with scorn
• controlled, restrictive

enhance

• improve, augment
• misfortune
• ordinary, common
• state of being renewed

extenuating

• improve
• to regard with scorn
• guilt diminishing
• to verify, confirm

haughty

• arrogant, condescending
• passive
• nameless
• merciful

deleterious

• improve, augment
• harmful
• irritable
• hateful