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Enhance your vocabulary skills with the final SAT vocabulary unit. Learn words like adamant, definitive, demeanor, enigmatic, impromptu, mollify, remit, curtail, deference, and thwart. Ace your SAT with these crucial terms.
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ACT/SAT Vocabulary Unit 15 (THE LAST ONE!)
Adamant • (adj) firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible; (n) an extremely hard substance • Ant: flexible, pliable
Definitive • (adj) conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done • Syn: exhaustive, authoritative • Ant: tentative, inconclusive
Demeanor • (n) the way a person behaves, overall impression made by comportment, manner, etc.; facial appearance, mien • Syn: conduct, bearing
Enigmatic • (adj) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood • Syn: baffling, mysterious • Ant: intelligible, fathomable
Impromptu • (adj, adv.) without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done; (n) an extemporaneous composition or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation • Syn: spontaneous, unrehearsed • Ant: prepared, premeditated POP QUIZ!
Mollify • (v) to soften make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay (as an emotion), assuage, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity • Ant: enrage, anger
Remit • (v) to send or hand in (as money); to cancel (as a penalty or punishment), forgive, pardon; to lessen, diminish; to put off, postpone, defer • Syn: absolve, abate
Challenge Word: Curtail • (v) to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected; to reduce • Syn:abbreviate, abridge • Ant: protract, extend
Challenge Word: Deference • (n) courteous yielding to the wishes and ideas of another person; great respect marked by submission, as to a superior • Syn: respect, consideration • Ant: contempt, disdain
Challenge Word: Thwart • (v) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate • Syn: foil, baffle • Ant: assist, abet