SAT Vocabulary Quiz #10

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stolid

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• cheap and shoddy

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• covering consistent of a thin superficial layer that hides the underlying substance

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tarnish

• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• spending money wisely

• two things are fundamentally different

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tawdry

• tastelessly showy; cheap and shoddy

• to gradually increase in size or intensity

• a hater of mankind

• determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

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taxing

• use to the limit; exhaust

• sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction

• making a show of being pious

• warlike; inclined to quarrel

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disparate

• two things are fundamentally different

• to flood or overwhelm

• spending money wisely

• feeling anger over a perceived injustice

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inundate

• to flood or overwhelm

• determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wise social experience

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited

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wax

• to gradually increase in size or intensity

• unreasonable; unscrupulous; excessive

• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

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indignant

• feeling anger over a perceived injustice

• two things that are fundamentally different

• determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

• tastelessly showy; cheap and shoddy

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misanthrope

• a hater of mankind

• covering a consisting of a thin superficial layer that hides the underlying substance

• use to the limit; exhaust

• a pause from doing something (as work)

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thrifty

• spending money wisely

• use to the limit

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wise social experience