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Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words

Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words. Vocabulary.com. Benevolent. Showing, motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity Intending or showing kindness

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Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 13: Top SAT Words Vocabulary.com

  2. Benevolent • Showing, motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity • Intending or showing kindness • Choose the adjective benevolent for someone who does good deeds or shows goodwill. If your teacher collects homework with a benevolent smile, she's hoping that you've done a good job.

  3. Bias • A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation • Use the noun bias to mean a preference for one thing over another, especially an unfair one.

  4. Boisterous • Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits • The adjective boisterous is what you would use if you want to call attention in a loud or clamorous way.

  5. Brazen • Unrestrained by convention or propriety • With brazen disregard for the sign that said "no cellphones please" the woman took a long call in the doctor's office waiting room. Brazen refers to something shocking, done shamelessly.

  6. Brusque • Marked by rude or peremptory shortness • If you ask a salesperson with help finding something and all you get in response is a brusque "Everything's out on the shelves," you'll probably take your business elsewhere. A brusque manner of speaking is unfriendly, rude, and very brief.

  7. Camaraderie • The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability • Camaraderie is a spirit of good friendship and loyalty among members of a group. You might not like your job, but still enjoy the camaraderie of the people you work with.

  8. Canny • Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others • If you're a canny investor, you know how to spend money to make money — that is, you're prudent, farsighted, and capable of protecting your own interests, particularly in matters of finance or business.

  9. Capacious • Large in capacity • When something is really big and holds a lot it is capacious, like a woman's capacious purse that is so big, people mistake it for a piece of luggage. 14 lb baby born in Hungary (not a joke)

  10. Capitulate • Surrender under agreed conditions • Capitulate means to give in to something. "The teachers didn't want to have class outside, but the students begged so hard, she capitulated."

  11. Clairvoyant • Someone who has the power to see things that are not naturally seen; “seeing” beyond the five Senses • If you can predict the future, you may want to keep your clairvoyant powers to yourself. Otherwise everyone will be knocking down your door asking for the next winning lotto numbers.

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