ACT Power Plus Book 3, Lesson 18

(adj.) causing to excite or inflame

• incendiary

• vociferous

• malleable

• sibilant

(n.) the finest example

• deign

• aggrandize

• apotheosis

• inimitable

(adj.) signaling favorable or promising results

• lascivious

• tenacious

• saturnine

• auspicious

(adj.) marked by noise; loud

• obsequious

• vociferous

• sentient

• desultory

(n.) working class or lower class

• germane

• hoi polloi

• nonentity

• proletariat

(adj.) strongly held; not easy to separate

• jocular

• tenacious

• hermetic

• despicable

(adj.) unmanageable or difficult to control; willful

• refractory

• egregious

• mendacious

• redundant

(adj.) cannot be imitated

• endemic

• querulous

• empirical

• inimitable

(v.) speak in a pretentiously dignified or dogmatic way

• flagellate

• pontificate

• ratiocinate

• impinge

(adj.) given to lustful or lewd thoughts

• prurient

• palliate

• aesthetic

• desultory