Test Prep Words

warlike in manner or temperament

• tortuous

• languid

• surreptitious

• bellicose

holding fast; persistent

• tenacious

• curtail

• truncatated

• tortuous

trifling; unimportant

• precocious

• inconsequential

• covert

• resilient

extremely dry

• mundane

• arid

• opulent

• perfidious

boring

• insipid

• covert

• cryptic

• mundane

severe or stern in manner

• obstinate

• arcane

• austere

• dormant

conspicuous, standing out from the mass

• eclectic

• flamboyant

• precarious

• egregious

unstable, insecure, dangerous

• bellicose

• precarious

• discredit

• garrulous

satisfied; filled up

• fortuitous

• satiated

• soporific

• metamorphosis

What does convey mean?

• To point out; to show

• To communicate a message; make an idea known

• To defend; to back up with reasoning and/or evidence

• To briefly share the main points of something