Sat Study Guide Exam.

SAT STUDY GUIDE EXAM. feckless (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER useless, lacking skill, incompetent, futile, indifferent, lazy quiescent (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER dormant, quiet, inactive, motionless halcyon (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER happy, perfect, idyllic, prosperous, carefree onerous (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER burdensome assiduousness (n) - CORRECT ANSWER diligently working affability (n) - CORRECT ANSWER friendliness; the quality of being affable; geniality belie (v) - CORRECT ANSWER to contradict abstruse (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER difficult to understand, complicated unencumbered (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER not having burden or impediment analogous (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER similar circumlocution (n) - CORRECT ANSWER evasive speech, speaking around a subject caustic (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER able to burn/ corrosive, sarcastic in a bitter way esoteric (adj) - CORRECT ANSWER hard to understand supercilious - CORRECT ANSWER arrogant, superiority complex paragon - CORRECT ANSWER ideal model watershed - CORRECT ANSWER significant moment in history, turning point deftly - CORRECT ANSWER skillful violate - CORRECT ANSWER overstep, disobey demagogue - CORRECT ANSWER political leader who follows popular ideals; mob leader; unofficial leader of the people avant-garde - CORRECT ANSWER new forms, innovative vitiated - CORRECT ANSWER spoil, waste away, impair quality of buttress - CORRECT ANSWER support impugned - CORRECT ANSWER dispute truth of something, challenge relinquish - CORRECT ANSWER give up retroactive - CORRECT ANSWER looking to the past synergistic - CORRECT ANSWER 2 things combined alone fanfare - CORRECT ANSWER a short ceremonial tune