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SAT ENGLISH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024
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SAT ENGLISHNumberless - answer too numerous to be counted
Immeasurable - answer beyond calculation or measure
Singular - answer Unique; extraordinary
Duplicity - answer contradictory doubleness of thought, speech or action, especially the
belying of one's true intentions by deceptive words or actions
Apocryphal - answer Fictitious; of doubtful authenticity
Immutable - answer Unchanging
Marred - answer Made imperfect; spoiled; disfigured
Abject - answer Of a situation - extremely bad, unpleasant, and degrading; miserable,
mean, vile, wretched
Futile - answer Serving no worthwhile purpose; frivolous
Inestimable - answer Too great or valuable to be properly measured
Implausible - answer Not Trustworthy or believable
Nebulous - answer Indistinct, vague
Myriad - answer An indefinitely large number
Fracas - answer Noisy dispute or quarrel
Imbibe - answer To drink
Infinitesimal - answer Too small to be measured
Incongruous - answer Lacking harmony or agreement; incompatible
Ensconce - answer To place comfortably, snuggly, or securely
Invaluable - answer Priceless; valuable beyond estimation
Melee - answer A confused struggle, esp, hand-to-hand fight among several people
,Underscore - answerTo emphasize
Downplay - answerDeemphasize
Reclamation - answerRestoration to use; recovery
Insuperable - answerIncapable of being surmounted or overcome
Eclectic - answerComposed of elements drawn from from various sources
Ambiguous - answerInexplicable; Capable of being understood in two or more possible
senses
Undermine - answerTo weaken or ruin by degrees; to subvert or weaken insidiously
Ambivalent - answerContinual fluctuation; uncertainty as to which course to follow
Belie - answerTo contradict; show the falsity of
Deleterious - answerHaving an often obscure or unexpected harmful effect
Pernicious - answerHighly injurious, destructive; deadly often used with deleterious
Dichotomy - answerA division or process of dividing into two especially mutually
exclusive or contradictory groups
Reticent - answerInclined to be uncommunicative in speech; reserved
Skeptical - answerAn attitude of doubt, disposition to incredulity; the synonym is:
uncertainty
Cynical - answerContemptuously distrustful of human nature or motives; belief that
others at motivated by self interest
Facetious - answerJocular, witty
Curtail - answerShorten
Conflate - answerMerge/fuse
Verisimilitude - answerSomething resembling the truth
Vapid - answerLacking liveliness, tang, briskness or force; flat; insipid
Languor - answerWeakness or weariness of body or mind; listless indolence (laziness)
, Diaphanous - answerSheer; characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit
seeing through; insubstantial
Euphemism - answerThe substitution of a word or expression for one that may be
offensive
Vitriolic - answerVirulence (ability to infect) of feeling or of speech; caustic (ability to
burn) like oil of vitriol
Perfidy - answerTreachery
Inchoate - answerBeing only partially in existence or operation
Vitiate - answerTo make faulty, defective; to debase; to make ineffective
Ignominious - answerMarked by disgrace or shame; dishonorable; degrading
Vituperative - answerUttering or given to censure (act of blaming or harsh criticism);
containing verbal abuse
Rumination - answerGoing over in the mind repeatedly; engaging in contemplation;
pondering
Perspicacious - answerVery smart, perceptive, discerning; shrewd
Protean - answerVariable; readily
Promulgation - answerAn announcement
Veracity; verity - answerTruthfulness, truth
Punctilious - answerMarked by or concerned with exact, precise accordance with
conventions and behavior; careful
Superficial - answerNear the surface
Primordial - answerFirst created or developed: primeval; primitive
Machination - answerA scheming or crafty action; plotting or contriving
Eschew - answerTo avoid habitually; shun
Vicissitude - answerChanges, the ups and downs as in life
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