SAT Vocab Quiz VII

comfort in a time of stress or sadness

• drivel

• fracas

• solace

• talisman

lacking taste or class

• vacuous

• palpable

• demure

• insipid

lacking inspiration

• pedestrian

• implacable

• ubiquitous

• covert

from the gut

• futile

• gauche

• myopic

• visceral

having or showing no skill

• reticent

• inept

• stoic

• gaunt

to make less severe, serious, or painful

• galvanize

• quaff

• bilk

• mitigate

something that kills pain

• anodyne

• debacle

• sojourn

• drivel

to alternate indecisively between two choices

• abstain

• vacillate

• augment

• aquiesce

designed to start fires or conflict

• incendiary

• reticent

• myopic

• jingoistic

moral corruption

• ennui

• zenith

• foible

• depravity